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Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest
Date 2015-12-11 12:38 +1100
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On 11/12/2015 8:03 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-german-physicists-landmark-nuclear-fusion.html
>>
>
>> After spending a billion euros ($1.1 billion) and nine years'
>> construction work, physicists working on a German project called the
>> "stellarator" said they had briefly generated a super-heated helium
>> plasma inside a vessel—a key point in the experimental process.
>>
>> "We're very satisfied," said Hans-Stephan Bosch at the Max Planck
>> Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald.
>
>

Though generating fusion is not particularly difficult. There are even 
home made fusors.

The tricky bit is getting more energy out than you put in.

The even trickier bit is getting more money out than you put in, and 
even the previous stage hasn't been reached yet.

Sylvia.

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German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 15:03 -0600
  Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest Plexippus Kritikos <plexik@laertesegidio.org> - 2015-12-10 21:13 +0000
  Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 13:56 -0800
    Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 16:04 -0600
      Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-12-10 14:33 -0800
        Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 14:11 -0800
    Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 21:51 -0500
  Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-10 22:42 +0000
  Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-11 12:38 +1100
    Re: German physicists see landmark in nuclear fusion quest "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 02:35 -0800

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