The Holy Grail of power generation

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Fusion power 'within reach'
Dr David Whitehouse, 1 October 2001

Fusion power is "within reach", according to atomic scientists in the UK.

"There are still very many difficulties but perhaps in a few decades we could have commercial fusion reactors in cities providing cheap pollution-free power" - Dr Alan Sykes, UKAEA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1573000/1573450.stm

Also check out the web page for the experiment:
http://www.fusion.org.uk/
and a very different style of fusion power generation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1263000/1263863.stm

Comments

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Oh my good grief. Great jumping gobstoppers.

That is the coolest thing I have read in ages.

I love the twenty-first century.

Perhaps we will get some of the Lovely News, in a few years...


J