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

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On 11/24/2015 2:54 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 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?

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

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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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