Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: dvus Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Feature: The bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:44:07 -0500 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <2u3cic-rmp.ln1@mail.specsol.com> <7treic-d0e.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net UrFcXxFysgZ93uYAw1x+FA3MBMBLt6z6hL2AHgimCjpb7/sSkK Cancel-Lock: sha1:N7qqGMjwc2Ps9ldpyUjPPTOu5Tc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <7treic-d0e.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:535275 On 11/24/2015 2:54 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > dvus wrote: >> On 11/23/2015 1:53 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>> Sam Wormley 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? People who "write" rather than "do". I suppose there's a need for both but they don't always come up with the same solutions. -- dvus