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Another step closer to fusion power?

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A crushed tube the size of a thread spool has brought the United States one step closer to harnessing nuclear fusion as a clean, almost limitless power source.

The experiment at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico tested how well a tiny cylinder could withstand the crushing magnetic force from the lab's "Z machine" — a pulsed-power accelerator that zapped the cylinder with 25 million amperes of electric current. The "liner" cylinder collapsed on itself, as would be expected, but remained intact enough to theoretically squeeze together deuterium or tritium fuel, triggering nuclear fusion.

"Our experiments were designed to test a sweet spot predicted by the simulations where a sufficiently robust liner could implode with a sufficiently high velocity," said Ryan McBride, a rese

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so will we be able to control the reaction or might in engulf everything around it till it uses every last resource. then we could be the next two sun system.
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We will see...
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Great! How much longer until we can use it to fuel a car?
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Hmm what to make of that
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N5EXY, been listening to an old Kingston Trio record?
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The powers that be will never allow the citizen slaves to have an energy source that doesn't have a meter attached to it.

They gotta keep their hand in your pocket.
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At a very high price of taxpayer money that they don't know if it will work.
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Just a question of time
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Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico - -

We know for certain that some lovely day,
someone will set the spark off,
and we will all be blown away.
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exciting and scarey
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Good!
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Cool, bring it on
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To DREAM the impossible dream ...
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Interesting....
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one could only hope!!
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Light years away.
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If this is something that is on the level, then I could get excited.
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if it comes to be then we will see
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Another pie in the sky article about what might be.
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hopefully.. dhan until then
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Interesting article...
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fusion has been claimed many times, but never fully develops
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Ooooo! Is this supposed to make you think Marvel comics - and Spiderman?
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Cool!!
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Beyond my comprehension.
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Sounds like a pipe dream to me.
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OGW you are exactly right. i'd suggest you either move to the dark side of the moon or to Pluto so you can distance yourself as far as possible from that big yellow reactor that appears every day.
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Yes, they finally said it about 3/4 of the way through the article. It takes almost energy to run this equipment as can be produced in the reactions they can manage with this equipment. No pay there!
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So how does that help.
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I don't see this as a power source for mobile use.
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TIME WILL TELL!
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it would be nice if it works
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still far far a way
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Gonna take awhile for this to come to fruition.
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Very very cool! Years away, of course, but it could make a big difference in the future, especially as oil resources begin to dry up.
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Fusion power is still a chimaera. In the meantime, coal, oil and natural gas remain the most efficient and most abundant sources of energy.
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k
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OK
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