Comments on: Fusion energy, Dovetail Hiring, and other stuff

By: aklein

aklein — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:01:00 +0000

check this site, just up: http://www.fpgeneration.com

By: Andy West

Andy West — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:36:04 +0000

What Star Trek nerds think of when they see the name Robert Bussard:

http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bussard_collector

Don’t ask me how I know.

By: Frank Quednau

Frank Quednau — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:48:35 +0000

The state of fusion is a sad one, with ITER fundings converging to zero (slightly exaggerated) while energy companies earnings converge to 10-digit numbers.

The world financial system is obviously broken, but nobody cares.

By: rose

rose — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:00:19 +0000

if the heat is going to boil water to dry steam to drive turbines to push wires past magnets and you don’t capture the heat cooling the steam back down the theoretical maximum efficiency is 40%!!!!

By: Tom Mallard

Tom Mallard — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:04:47 +0000

Consider that if the heat is going to boil water to dry steam to drive turbines to push wires past magnets and you don’t capture the heat cooling the steam back down the theoretical maximum efficiency is 40%!!!!

So fusion is no better for Steam Age technology, and, the trouble with co-generating to capture the waste heat means you must use thermal fluids and distribute the heat, costly so never done.

Still not a requirement for brand-new power plants using steam so fusion will also waste this heat directly into the world at the rate of two watts of waste heat for every watt on the wire if done this way, key issue the waste heat of condensation in the conversation never brought up.