Fusion -- from here to reality

[StuartG]

'Fusion' has, in the past, seemed interesting to quite a few people on science boards, here's something I found about it recently...
physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/44150
[You Tube source www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_CwRcyq8U&feature=player_embedded#! ]
and another article...
physicsworld.com/cws/article/multimedia/44088
[ You Tube source www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxE-EOADEbo&feature=player_embedded ]
'Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire'
www.ccfe.ac.uk/
'The Promise of Fusion Power'
DOI: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:15pm EDT
Reuters News
www.reuters.com/article/idUS29642007320101026
...is this like 'Electric Cars' or more 'Go' in it than that?
Stuart

[principled]

From the video... "We need to design new materials..." "Realistically it will be 30-40 years away".
It was ever thus.
Nuclear fusion reminds me of the elusive search for a solution to the heavy, low-energy density batteries for electric cars, we've never quite found that elusive something that will take use forward in leaps and bounds,rather than the slow plod currently.

It's like that old joke about the guy who takes his shoes to the cobblers for repair. He goes in week after week and the answer is always "They'll be ready next week". He eventually emigrates and 25 years later returns for a visit. He decides to pop into the cobblers to check on what happened to his shoes. On inquiring he is told by the cobbler "They'll be ready next week"
For shoes, read nuclear fusion.
P

[StuartG]

P
I will reply to Your post in a couple o' days!
Stuart