Re: OT - Oil Bashing

Will Sill wrote:
I see where Rich256 <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> contributed:

I had great hopes for Nuclear fusion. But after 50 or more years I am beginning to wonder if they will ever make it break even. That was going to be the clean, safe power source to generate huge amounts of electricity and be able to make hydrogen in large quantities.

Technically, nukes are a piece of cake to build. Politically they are
impossible because of the green-head activists and the NIMBY crowd.

Will Sill
The Curmudgeon of Sill Hill


Agree. The one I had great hopes for was the fusion. As Neon John says it really appears impossible to control. Just can't keep the darn thing going. The selling point was that it can't run away and the byproducts are not difficult to handle. Problem is that it can't even keep the reaction going long enough to reach the break even point.

Billions have been spend and now the latest attempt is being made in France. And note that even there the environmentalists are blowing off steam about something they don't understand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4629239.stm

They say:
"However, some environmental groups are doubtful about the viability of nuclear fusion, and have warned that Cadarache lies on a known earthquake faultline."



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