Energy problems on the brink of being solved.

[shoemoodoshaloo]

France will get to host the project to build a 10bn-euro (£6.6bn) nuclear fusion reactor, in the face of strong competition from Japan. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International Space Station.

The Iter programme was held up for over 18 months as parties tried to broker a deal between the two rivals.

Nuclear fusion taps energy from reactions like those that heat the Sun.

Nuclear fusion is seen as a cleaner approach to power production than nuclear fission and fossil fuels.


Check it out here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4629239.stm)


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Why spend money on this when we can build 10 billion windmills?!?!?!?!?! The same reason you buy a computer instead of 10 billion calculators.


Asshole.

[UnkHiram]

Everyone here that thinks France will screw this up please raise their hands. :cheer:

[DoctorDoom]

Nuclear fusion experiments have great difficulty achieving the break-even point, let alone producing useful output. Still, this should be interesting. A fusion-powered future would be great, but it's not yet time to close the nukes.