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Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

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Re: Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

Postby Londonrake » Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:32 pm

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60312633

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Re: Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

Postby Lordo » Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:45 pm

I love this kind of blind reporting by the BBC. They just repeat what they are told, no need to ask any questions before making up the headlines.

Here is a question they should have asked before declaring it a major breakthrough. In total how much did it cost to produce this energy?

Any fool can take a pound coin and convert it to 1 pence piece. The breakthrough will happen when they can produce enough energy at comparable cost to what we pay now with other forms of energy.
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Re: Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

Postby Pyrpolizer » Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:24 pm

This misinformation has to STOP. The JET project is known for a long time. It only produced 67% of the energy it consumed.
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Re: Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

Postby CrookedRiverGuy » Thu Feb 10, 2022 11:01 pm

Pyrpolizer wrote:This misinformation has to STOP. The JET project is known for a long time. It only produced 67% of the energy it consumed.


What? do you say that building a jet reactor like this
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to boil a 60 kettles of water, isn't worth it?
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Re: Thorium, its practical use as a source of energy

Postby repulsewarrior » Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:09 am

Fission is here and now; fusion is not. However, fusion is worth exploring; what's next?

...we will see in just a few years.
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