Will the new saeculum start after the pandemic is over?

[David Horn]

(04-29-2020, 12:44 AM)Mickey123 Wrote:

(04-28-2020, 06:15 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I have wondered if the oil interests have asked the various government leaders to go slow on fusion development.  They would not want fusion developed until they have gotten as much profit out of fossil fuels as they can.  Just speculation.

That's not the way things work.

Utility scale controlled fusion turns out to be really, really hard to do.  We can create a fusion reaction, which explodes as a hydrogen bomb.  Finding a box to keep it in and control it is vastly more difficult.  We've been working on it for decades, and it's still a long way off.  You can't magic new technology into existence, you have to develop it one small piece at a time.  We have many pieces to go.

I've been following ITER for years.  Note: the US is a real piker on this project.  We're in, but just barely.  It's hard to say if more effort and money from us would have accelerated the process or not, but it certainly couldn't hurt.