Re: OT Why No Fusion Powerplants?

<bjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cb4c651b-7f9c-48af-9f12-fdd61a206bbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is like asking if Michelin is suppressing antigravity
to maintain their tire monopoly. (RBR readers will now
point out that Michelin doesn't actually even _have_ a
tire monopoly.)

I know this is difficult for you to grasp but the math of the Tokomak plainly demonstrates that if it works at all it will require an installation so huge that one would power a major portion of the USA.

As for Bussard, his supposedly working apparatus wasn't
even tested with proton-boron fusion, he was using deuterium,
which requires 10 times lower energy. The article says,
no problem, we'll just build it bigger! If it was that simple,
we'd all own rocketships. Uh, I don't believe he managed
table top deuterium fusion either. But I wasn't there; his
acolytes should publish the results, and then they won't
have to worry about not getting their phone calls returned.

Again, the math has been demonstrated and shows that working fusion can be achieved at MUCH smaller installation sizes. They can easily calculate breakeven and the theory behind the entire process - something that the Tokomak research has continuously failed at.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I'll take one of those Michelin antigravity bicycles though.

You can't even make sense when you think you're making sense.

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  • Re: OT Why No Fusion Powerplants?
    ... table top deuterium fusion either. ... I'll take one of those Michelin antigravity bicycles though. ... You can't even make sense when you think you're making sense. ...
    (rec.bicycles.racing)
  • Re: OT Why No Fusion Powerplants?
    ... This is like asking if Michelin is suppressing antigravity ... table top deuterium fusion either. ... You can't even make sense when you think you're making sense. ...
    (rec.bicycles.racing)
  • Re: OT Why No Fusion Powerplants?
    ... This is like asking if Michelin is suppressing antigravity ... installation so huge that one would power a major portion of the USA. ... fusion reactor would be difficult but not impossible to build, ...
    (rec.bicycles.racing)
  • Re: OT Why No Fusion Powerplants?
    ... This is like asking if Michelin is suppressing antigravity ... so after that it would be just engineering. ... even tested with proton-boron fusion, he was using deuterium, ...
    (rec.bicycles.racing)