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Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion

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dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 1:53 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion
>>>> http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion
>>>
>>>> In a gleaming research lab in Germany's northeastern corner,
>>>> researchers are preparing to switch on a fusion device called a
>>>> stellarator, the largest ever built. The ?1 billion machine, known as
>>>> Wendelstein 7-X looks a bit like Han Solo's Millennium Falcon, towed
>>>> in for repairs after a run-in with the Imperial fleet. Stellarators
>>>> have long been dark horses in fusion energy research but the
>>>> Dali-esque devices have many attributes that could make them much
>>>> better prospects for a commercial fusion power plant than the more
>>>> popular tokamaks: Once started, stellarators naturally purr along in
>>>> a steady state and they are not prone to the potentially
>>>> metal-bending magnetic disruptions that plague tokamaks.
>>>> Unfortunately they are devilishly hard to build.
>>
>> Childish drivel.
> 
> Why so? Wouldn't a successful fusion reactor be a good thing for the 
> energy dependent world?

Of course, and it will be here any day now just like it has been for
the last 50 years or so.

"gleaming research lab"

"Han Solo's Millennium Falcon"

"towed in for repairs after a run-in with the Imperial fleet"

"dark horses in fusion energy"

"naturally purr along"

"metal-bending magnetic disruptions"

"devilishly hard"

Who writes this drivel?
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 07:18 -0600
  Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-23 18:53 +0000
    Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-24 09:06 -0500
      Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-24 19:54 +0000
        Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-24 21:44 -0500
    Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 11:47 -0800
      Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-25 20:05 +0000

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