Scientific American magazine takes a tour inside the DIII-D nuclear fusion reactor which is the largest magnetic fusion facility in the U.S.
DIII-D is the name of a tokamak machine developed in the 1980s by General Atomics in San Diego, USA, as part of the ongoing effort to achieve magnetically confined fusion. DIII-D pioneered new technology including the use of beams of neutral particles to penetrate the confinement field of the device and heat the plasma within.
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How does this compare with the Jet project UK
Ian Burrell on February 12, 2007.
What is the point? Let's just waste all this money and energy to say cool.
Rob on February 14, 2007.
What is this?
human on March 17, 2007.
Rob, you are wrong... you need the waste in order to go foreward. Do you think someone has a good idea one day and POOF! You got a Fusion reactor. No ... many, many tests, experiments etc. that makes the field progress. In the end it will be cracked and we will have Fusion plants just because many people spent a lot of time and money for the other (large) group of people that will not even be able to say "thank you". BTW, the computer you used to post you message, came to be after many, many, many "wastes" ...
Tudor on April 6, 2007.
I agree with Tudor. Rob, this isn't a waste. The best, most correct form of research is simply to build it and see if it works. If it doesn't, you have a whole list of things what not to do. What is it Thomas Edison said? "I have not failed 1000 times, but I have done 1000 trials?"
Something like that.
Paul on April 25, 2007.
meow
meow on May 1, 2007.
wow but telsa still had a cheaper way. and it works pretty darn good. at least for me
box of nuts on May 24, 2007.
better to have tried and failed, then not to have tried at all... if this thing works, we would have near infinite energy... i don't think that would fall under "a waste"
david on September 4, 2007.
how does fusion work to create electricity? is it used to heat water to turn turbines with steam?
Chaun on January 24, 2008.
Can't we just put windmills on our cars? When you drive it is windy and so I think we can generate the electricity we need with windmills on our cars. I'll call mine Windy Wendy.
