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Old 08-05-2002, 03:32 PM   #11
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when I talked with a guy at the university of Texas a while ago, he showed me a plot which had a rather linear progression towards the year 2030, as the year in which we would be able to have a net positive energy generation.
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<strong>How far are we from sustained fusion?</strong>
I've never heard of it, but assuming a town with a name that stupid must be in the US it can't be all that far.

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I would be surprised if there was a commercially viable system in existence in thirty years. I have doubts about whether sustained nuclear fusion is even possible at a scale small enough to be commercially viable. I would be less suprised by a theoretical physicist establishing that the theoretical minimum size of a sustainable nuclear fusion reaction was an output equal to a continual stream of A-bombs (too large to be commercially viable), than I would be by someone actually developing a commercially viable fusion reactor.
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Hey, but we already have sustained fusion. It's occurring as we speak just 93 million miles away...
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<strong>Hey, but we already have sustained fusion. It's occurring as we speak just 93 million miles away...</strong>
Any what strikes me as significant, is that there is no evidence of small scale sustained nuclear fusion in deep space.
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Old 08-12-2002, 02:27 PM   #16
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Doesn't prove anything.... would we be able to see a small, sustained fusion reaction in deep space? Probably not. Hell we have enough trouble seeing gas giant planets.... much less a sub-planetary sized fusion reaction.

Yes it would be bright but we're talking about enormous distances here.
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