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June 07, 2010
ITER Meltdown
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) did not melt down from an excess of energy production. It is melting due to budget excesses. It has been billed as the solution to tomorrow's energy crunch, but ITER, a massive fusion experiment by seven international partners, is under serious threat from a present-day problem: the financial crisis.All the while Polywell Fusion and other small fusion programs are getting along on budgets 1/100th the size and are actually making progress towards answers. You can learn the basics of fusion energy by reading Principles of Fusion Energy: An Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and Engineering Polywell is a little more complicated. You can learn more about Polywell and its potential at: Bussard's IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained The American Thinker has a good article up with the basics. And the best part? We Will Know In Two Years or less. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 06.07.10 at 05:09 AM |
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It has been known since the 1970s (see Science 1978 or so) that tokamak machines have no future in energy generation. The main problem is economics. Any conceivable tokamak machines would be at least an order of magnitude larger in cost and very much larger in size than an equivalent fission plant. Tokamaks will have no possible commercial or military use, even if they can be made to work, which is unlikely in the extreme.
ITER is one of the best examples of egregious scientific and criminal fraud, even better than AGW. For forty years the elite physicists who promote and lead tokamak projects have lived elegant jet set lifestyles at government expense and have wasted the scientific careers of thousands of junior physicists.