Hopefully sooner....I think the "Mid-American Energy field" sponsorship is done in about 10.....this sounds like it could be a better sponsor!
US DOE - Fusion Ignition
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Sounds like a job for a Material Science engineer to contain this fusion. My son is finishing his first semester at ISU today in this field. I'm guessing he will be the guy.
For this, it sounds like they contained the hydrogen within a diamond core with a gold covering. Going to take a lot of Minecraft hours to get the materials needed to scale this one up.
Duh, everybody knows you secretly switch it to creative mode when nobody is looking and stash 64 diamond blocks in a hidden chest. Problem solved.
That's called the "10 minutes after eating at Carlos O'Kelley's" effect.
My sole knowledge of Fusion Power is from Sim City 2000. Once you got that, your city had it made. 
i miss that gameMy sole knowledge of Fusion Power is from Sim City 2000. Once you got that, your city had it made.
This will never see the light of day. No pun intended. Big oil will get the military/industrial/surveillance complex to lock this up. Trillions of dollars at stake in a hydrocarbon fuel economy. If another country had come up with this we would find an excuse to start a war and bomb them.
You never know,...a grad student at an engineering and ag school had a better idea. That school was hooked up with Columbia, Cal and U of Chicago to do super serious research. Fission has yielded many great uses and others not so great.
Read an article that said for applications where continuous fusion is required, i.e. cheap power, they use magnetic fields to contain the reaction. This experiment, and the laser-fired method in general, was just to generate a pulse.
Or most importantly demand better quality. Imagine owning and using something twice as long as the junk we buy from China. The environmental savings would be immense. I've become so much more aware of garbage since I started hauling my own to the local dumpsters. Every time I get rid of garbage I'm reminded of just how thoughtless we purchase things. It has, quite honestly, altered my purchasing habits. I'll now spend twice the time and money to buy only quality knowing that it'll last a lot longer. Which, in turn, has a reciprocal effect on manufacturing, transportation, disposal, packaging, etc. All of which has more of a positive effect on our environment than ANY legislation.
Trivia: What product had this slogan? "The Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On".
