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Brian10488

meh, i still don't think it will be achieved anytime soon.

And why do you think that?
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f1reburn

Not saying it can't be achieved, but it seems a bit perpetuum mobile-ish.

Not really, like any other energy-providing process it requires a "fuel", the fun part being there's enough heavy water on this earth to keep the reactor going for millions of years, and enough lithium for thousands of years. The main problem at hand is not the possibility of the process, but the possibility of us starting up such a process, bring it up to such a level where it is actually efficient and harvesting the energy while safely contain it at the same time.

As with the criticism that this entire project detracts too many research funds from other fields of alternative energy, we must take into account that this is our best hope for an efficient alternative to nuclear fission and fossil fuels for the future, contrary to wind, solar, or tidal energies and bio-fuels, it's the only process that would be just as efficient regardless of the location of where it's needed, solar energy may be efficient and cheap in places where the sun shines almost day in day out, but in other places where this is far from the case, the technology would be far less effective and thus more expensive, and the same goes for the wind and tidal energies, as for the bio-fuels, well they sound reasonable, but again crops would have to be grown, again more or less efficient based on location, and I don't know if eventually we can "grow" all the energy we'd need, even if we all cut back... but that's Greenpeace for you, they're just not realistic in their intentions, I care for the environment up to a realistic level, they go far beyond such a thing...
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Batist - The Frenchy formerly known as Majinbuu -

... and Knight of Cydonia. die. just die. die in a hellpit of fire from satan's ass.

BEan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island

I think you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
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Jay

Chernobyl had nothing to do with a fusion reactor though, so bringing that up is pointless

The guy brought up Three Mile Island. I was correcting him.

And they do have much to do with eachother. It deals with a reactor melt down which is exactly what Majinbuu speculatedfeared..
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Jay

Yes but a reactor meltdown is very, very unlikely with the new design of this fusion reactor

Oh. Sorry sir. I didn't realize we were dealing with a fusion reactor specialist. Since fision reactors are theoretical, you can't know for sure that it will be 'stable'.

Whatever, the liklihood of a fusion reactor is not the point here, Majinbuu's subject title is 'France is Gonna Die! It's a conspiracy to blow me up!'

To me this implies that he's talking about the possibility of a meltdown. And someone mentioned three mile island, which was almost a meltdown, whereas I corrected him by saying he meant Chernobyl. So stop worrying about it, k?

I'm interested to see how this project turns out.
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Jay

Not once did I say I was a specialist.

It's called sarcasm dude.
My point is just that there are no fusion reactors out there to support your claim of a 'stable' reactor.

No problem though. If the sun can do it countless times a day, we can do it too. It's just that the sun is an uncontrolled fusion reactor that is constantly exploding. Here's hoping we can control it, for Frances' sake. They got the Louvre.
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Jay

Yes but a reactor meltdown is very, very unlikely with the new design of this fusion reactor

wow, you obviously don't know s*** about nuclear energy.


wow.

sure, it's safer than fission, but there is still possibilty of accidents
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Majinbuu

I have 12 years left to live

GRAB AS MANY WHORES AS YOU CAN AND GET THE **** OUT OF THERE!!!!!
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Batist - The Frenchy formerly known as Majinbuu -

... and Knight of Cydonia. die. just die. die in a hellpit of fire from satan's ass.

Majinbuu

I'm a bit spectical of energy 1,000,000x more powerful then the sun.

Where did you get that idea, fusion is the same reaction that takes place in the sun, maybe if we were talking about antimatter.

I reckon we'll see fusion as a standard energy source in our lifetimes,, with the human race's ever increasing hunger for more energy it's bound to happen. Just as well they're building it in France, if Japan got the bid, they'd probably try to build portable fusion reactors to put in mechs or something.

Oh Asia would be the region with the highest population density BTW Knight.