Fusion Research Ahead Of The (‘Moore’s Law’) Curve

From the ‘wipe that smug smile of your face, yea doubters’ dept…

(‘course, commercial fusion power is still three decades away, *cough cough*)

From the News Desk

“Can one idea be the holy grail?” asks CNN, who are obviously rooting for Laberge’s ‘Doc Brown-style’ General Fusion (and why not? We all love an underdog. Just think: the world’s energy problems might be solved by a guy who used to design machines to automate junk mail.)

Meanwhie, boffins at the Plasma Physics Research Centre are working on ways to control bubbles forming in plasma. Journey of a thousand miles, and all that…

Researchers at Purdue University are –in a roundabout way– developing a probe that might help in tackling the biggie: what materials to use on the inside of the reactor. They’re developing this technology to try and provide a more structured approach to the physical engineering problems facing reactor designers…

Finally– uh-oh. Remember how we were going to placate the hippys by assuring them that fusion wouldn’t cause any radiation problems? Back to the drawing board…