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Goal:everlasting energy

If you are a labs scientist, do you think we will see it in our lifetime?

Warning: trolls and prolific contributors not accepted. 

 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/world-largest-nuclear-reactor-aims-070000048.html

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Anonymous said…
I am not a troll, but probably not in our lifetimes. ITER will not do it but maybe some breakthrough could happen.
Anonymous said…
Unlimited would mean zero cost to produce, but any fusion scheme might require physical commodity inputs to produce, operate, and maintain the reactor, construction and operating costs, the cost of land and hydrological works to provide coolant, also decommissioning costs at end of life, and so forth. There's also a need for converting the fusion power to electricity, which would have to also be sized to power the plant as well, such as turbines, an electrical yard, etc. If the fuel involves He3 or tritium it would be of course, expensive and potentially hard to produce or handle as well. Neutron activation of components could complicate maintenance and decommissioning tasks, and so forth.


Anonymous said…
There are some estimates, by the way, that natural thorium and uranium could provide virtually unlimited energy, because of their natural abundance throughout the Earth's crust. Other bodies such as the moon and mars also contain these elements as well in roughly similar amounts:

https://energyfromthorium.com/cubic-meter/

That is, the claim that the earth's crust contains orders of magnitude more energy than an equivalent volume of crude oil or coal -- as you might be aware, the world consumption of oil is around 1 cubic mile per year,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cubic_Mile_of_Oil
Anonymous said…
"that natural thorium and uranium "

I have seen these estimates as well but nuclear energy is dead end, so that is that. It is fusion, or it is just downsizing and clean energy. The other problem is even if fusion of nuclear worked it would just mean more people and still bad for the environment. We simply have to accept that we need less people, much less people.

Limitless energy will create more problems than it will solve. So what if we can get to Mars? We will just destroy like we are doing to the earth.

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