Fusion?

Ron in Regina

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When? How many months or years or decades out is the first practical application?

Will it fit into the Green Pipe-Dream in our lifetimes or is this still something our grandchildren might benefit from eventually someday?
 

The_Foxer

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Rumour has it that they did it and can do it on a commercial-scale.

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It's very exciting as a first step. They've always been able to create fusion but it took more energy to make it work than it produced and was unstable. They CLAIM this produces more than it takes and is stable - which will open the door to more research and eventually fusion energy that actually works on a large commercial scale.
 

petros

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It's very exciting as a first step. They've always been able to create fusion but it took more energy to make it work than it produced and was unstable. They CLAIM this produces more than it takes and is stable - which will open the door to more research and eventually fusion energy that actually works on a large commercial scale.
It'll be used the way SMRs are set to when fruition hits as subgrid infills bypassing use of long distance distribution.
 

The_Foxer

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Well it was a little overhyped as expected - looks like we're still a long long way off to having something useable. Still - baby steps.

Sorry - edited to add the link i was talking about
 

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So what is the byproduct of fusion? Will there be more toxins we have no way of disposing of, like nuke plants?
Helium and neutrons. How many neutrons depends on what the fuel is, deuterium or tritium, and electromagnetic energy (heat and light). In the traditional model, energy is extracted from the electromagnetic energy and from a screening substance (usually water), that is used to absorb the free neutrons. That absorption produces heat.
 
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Taxslave2

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That would appear to be environmentally friendly. From what little I have read about it, real time use is still decades away.