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

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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?

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dvus

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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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