Re: Bollocks
@ fajensen
No, you're wrong there. They've been a long way from break even and as I've said several times before the parameters required to break even have been known about for at least 20 years. If they built it big enough it would (probably) work. That would cost a lot of money and governments have pointless wars that they prefer to finance. The big problem with development has always been the American senate for some reason. They've done their best to scupper any international agreement for ITER. The usual joke is that they don't see the point when oil is so cheap (and it is cheap compared to the damage that it does).
In case you don't know there are many different approaches taken to fusion, ITER is the biggest and best funded precisely because it is the most promising. For example the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik runs Wendelstein and a fairly large tokamak ASDEX. There is MAST in Culham and various other piecemeal projects. There is also inertial confinement, but again the usual joke is that this is in fact a way to get around the nuclear test ban treaty.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
