35 nations are building the largest tokamak facility ever attempted in southern France, called ITER.
A tokamak uses magnetic fields to contain the high energy, extremely hot plasma created by the reactor. With ITER they intend to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy by heating atoms to temperatures of 150,000,000 degrees Celsius (2,700,032 degrees Fahrenheit). Unlike smaller tokamak reactors, physicist expect ITER to generate more energy than it consumes in the process of fusing atoms.
This year marks a major milestone for the project as principle construction of the central buildings is expected to be completed. If the engineers stay on schedule, they expect to begin experiments on large scale fusion reactions in eight years. More
“physicist expect ITER to generate more energy than it consumes in the process of fusing atoms….”
Don’t mind me, I’m just sitting here re-reading the laws of physics.
Oh yeah, the fukinmuzzies are just going to love blowing that shit up in the name of their pedophile pappy allah.
are these the same scientists that can predict that the temperature of the Earth will be 2 degrees higher a hundred years from now?
Something is going to break.
Yes Sarthurk, the laws of physics will be broken. Like Drago and Rocky in that boxing movie who’s name escapes me. “I MUST BREAK YOU.” Is what the scientists are saying and the laws of physics are standing there thinking ‘WTF!?!”
Hmm, they weren’t really sure what would happen when they pulled the pin on the first A bomb, or the H bomb, or if they could make a black hole with the CERN supercollider, what could go wrong?
…Aaand planet Earth goes nova in 3… 2… 1…
🙂
The planet will not go nova. Why? This project was created by Reagan(pbuh) and Gorbachov.
If Dutch says his car is half full of gas, but all he has to do is drive it 100 miles for the tank to fill up….you get in the ride.
Lawrence Livermore Labs has been working on Fusion energy for at least thirty years. They call it the NIF project. They’re perpetually just 10 years away.
https://lasers.llnl.gov/science/energy-for-the-future
150,000,000°C is 270,000,032°F, not 2,700,032°F.
Sheesh.
Mind your decimal places.
P.S. The geothermal energy of Goddess Gaia is about twenty-billion years worth of consumption at current worldwide levels. Ignoring what happened on Krypton, the U.S. of A. could provide for all of its energy needs by tapping into Yellowstone. Done, done. Cancel your subscription to, “Popular Science.” And quit wasting money. Retrain all of the ‘tarded physists in Women’s and Gender Studies so they can be less useless.
Thank you for the correction Uncle Al. The convert I used didn’t use decimals, but it looked like three zeros not four in the one I used.
No. I’m doubling down and demanding this entire ITER project be moved to space. Zero gravity will fix all the design problems inherent in tokamak leaving the Earth free to destroy itself the old fashioned way.
It seems Iran keeps wanting to join ITER, but The United States keeps blocking their admission.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/united-states-blocks-iran-fusion-megaproject
Dr. Tar – you’re welcome. And, um, it is actually five zeros instead of three. Your original was off by two orders of magnitude.
I do apologize. I’m a number-oriented retired geek.
@Aaron Burr – nookyoolar fusion does indeed produce more energy than it consumes…as long as you ignore the spontaneous energy/matter creation/conversion in (God’s) (the Big Bang’s) (pick one) creation of the universe. I find that pretty easy to ignore, though.
Al, fusion is just a theory. It only works on the sun.
However. This project is exciting. If for no other reason than we’ve found an even more expensive way of making tritium.
Regarding the NIF project at Lawrence Livermore. We use to do some work for “The Lab”. We got the tour. An amazing place with some amazing history. They went so far as to smuggle a couple Russian scientist out of the old Soviet Union that had written theories on how to accelerate the growth of salt crystals. They have their own museum open to the public. Well worth the visit.
Actually…I could prove all of You Rascals wrong…
If I could find some dust to write in..
@Aaron Burr:
It’s a bit more than a theory, AB. Just ask anybody near Bikini Atoll in early 1954. As Wikipedia (I know, I know) says:
Fission is not fusion. I LOVE fission. That ish’ works. SPECTACULARLY.
This ITER deal is trying to play catch up to the theories of the seventies which claimed we were THIS close to “breaking even”energy production wise. We’re not even there yet. That’s the whole point of ITER. Ish’ didn’t work so they did what every American would naturally do when confronted with a small, niggling problem…. scale it up to ridiculous size and use brute force to accomplish your ends.
However, as previously noted, one of the elements created in this fusion process is delicious tritium gas. We need tritium. If it takes 35 countries to make tritium so my Mickey Mouse watch can glow, so be it. Reagan(pbuh) has spoken.
They would’ve perfected cold fusion decades ago, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.
Corona doesn’t even get up from the porch and wins the thread.
@AB – Thermonuclear bombs use the fusion of hydrogen isotopes as the middle reaction in their mammy-jammy triple-whammy boomity-boom-boom. Fission triggers the fusion which triggers a hellacious fission-powered energy release of up to (historically) 50 megatons TNT equivalent. The fusion stage is an essential part of the magic.
p.s. Tritium is your friend when it comes to night sights for your gat.
“mammy-jammy triple-whammy boomity-boom-boom.”
This is why I love physics.
But I stand by my assertion. A fission bomb is like lighting the fuse on a old timey bomb. It starts an uncontrollable reaction. ITER is trying to pull the handle on a magic slot machine that isn’t plugged in and pays out with every pull.
Right now it’s only paying out 70 cents on the dollar.
But I really want “mammy-jammy triple-whammy boomity-boom-boom” on a tee shirt now.
Pfffft. We should divert all of this money to developing a death ray gun so I can control the world. Or at least try to make gold out of lead just to annoy Isaac Newton.
Are these people not afraid of using the tokamak concept which was developed in (gasp) Russia?
what could possibly go wrong
Is this how Iron Man gets his power, or is it the forerunner to a working Flux Capacitor?
https://tinyurl.com/Silly-Atomic-Shite