Fusion

[RWebb]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/us-physicists-rally-around-ambitious-plan-build-fusion-power-plant

[sc_rufctr]

Great but Fusion energy is about 3 decades away at best...

It's a bit like driver less cars. If you believed the hype of just a few years ago they'd be here now but they're not.

But when it does happen it will change everything.
Imagine not worrying about energy costs or the cost to the environment ever again.

The world will look entirely different when Fusion finally comes online.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Great but Fusion energy is about 3 decades away at best...

It's a bit like driver less cars. If you believed the hype of just a few years ago they'd be here now but they're not.

But when it does happen it will change everything.
Imagine not worrying about energy costs or the cost to the environment ever again.

The world will look entirely different when Fusion finally comes online.

When I was in high school back in the stone ages they were saying practical fusion energy was 20 years out. It is still 20 to 30 years out. It is really really hard to make it work.

Fusion energy will be a great thing and truly change the world. Right now it still uses more energy than it produces, and it one produces for very brief periods of time.

[stevej37]

^^^ Agree...it will be a real game-changer...when it happens.

[Sooner or later]

Ford pulled the plug on them.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

When I was in high school back in the stone ages they were saying practical fusion energy was 20 years out. It is still 20 to 30 years out. It is really really hard to make it work.

Fusion energy will be a great thing and truly change the world. Right now it still uses more energy than it produces, and it one produces for very brief periods of time.

What if we also "cured" ageing? All of a sudden our entire Solar System becomes our back yard.
My only regret is that I wont see it for myself but I believe there are people alive right now that will live beyond 200 years.

A Mars landing will also happen quicker than most of us think. Let's see if the Chinese can match that when it does.

[RWebb]

Fusion energy has been about 3 decades away since 1960


The real change is that all those guys seem to be on board for a single proposal - that's new

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

A Mars landing will also happen quicker than most of us think. Let's see if the Chinese can match that when it does.

They're on the way there now for a load of rocks.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

What if we also "cured" ageing? All of a sudden our entire Solar System becomes our back yard.
My only regret is that I wont see it for myself but I believe there are people alive right now that will live beyond 200 years.

A Mars landing will also happen quicker than most of us think. Let's see if the Chinese can match that when it does.

I can see 120 years as a lifespan, but I suspect too many parts of the body and the brain itself just will not last that long. Maybe we can clone body parts to grow parts as needed, but we will still have the same brain.

I saw one report that thinks we are 10 years of from a technology to download our conciseness to a computer. Maybe then we could re-upload it to a clone of your former body, or even better, someone with George Clooney looks and the body like Dwayne Johnson. I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

a technology to download our conciseness to a computer

that will never work for tabs

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I can see 120 years as a lifespan, but I suspect too many parts of the body and the brain itself just will not last that long. Maybe we can clone body parts to grow parts as needed, but we will still have the same brain.

I saw one report that thinks we are 10 years of from a technology to download our conciseness to a computer. Maybe then we could re-upload it to a clone of your former body, or even better, someone with George Clooney looks and the body like Dwayne Johnson. I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

Fair warning: "Super hot older Jodie Foster" content. (I'm allowed to dream)

[red-beard]

One word:

Neutrons. You need to be able to keep the neutrons IN and the energy associated with them....

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I can see 120 years as a lifespan, but I suspect too many parts of the body and the brain itself just will not last that long. Maybe we can clone body parts to grow parts as needed, but we will still have the same brain.

I saw one report that thinks we are 10 years of from a technology to download our conciseness to a computer. Maybe then we could re-upload it to a clone of your former body, or even better, someone with George Clooney looks and the body like Dwayne Johnson. I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

...and why?

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Chirped pulse amplification in fusion reactors - another possible avenue to "break-even"

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1511/1511.03231.pdf

My hopes for molten salt or thorium fueled reactors as a practical solution to mitigate our reliance on
fossil based energy are fading a little. I also hope this thought does not constitute a thread hi-jack.

Cheers
JB

[RWebb]

how about starting a thread on new fission reactor designs?

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by red-beard

One word:

Neutrons. You need to be able to keep the neutrons IN and the energy associated with them....

"Shoosh now"... I'm not entirely sure what you mean but it sounds good.

The problem with Fusion right now as I understand it is sustaining the reaction.
We can get it to happen but keeping that reaction going is the big problem.

[RWebb]

that's more or less what he said

[LEAKYSEALS951]

I remember being in college around 1990-1992.

At the time, there was a lot of press about cold fusion. In my entire life, that was the only time I ever picked up a newpaper and thought "wow, things are going to get better" was picking up a paper with the headline "fusion works"

Turned out the cold fusion was a bust. I've been an ********* ever since.

[Nostril Cheese]

its the future...

Where's my sex bot?

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

its the future...

Where's my sex bot?

you want to achieve "fusion" with your sex bot?