I'm not sure your accusation your enemies have their blinders on while they patiently wait for fusion is accurate, herb.
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The world’s biggest scientific experiment is on course to become the most expensive source of surplus power.
Components of the 20 billion-euro ($24 billion) project are already starting to pile up at a construction site in the south of France, where about 800 scientists plan to test whether they can harness the power that makes stars shine. Assembly of the machine will start in May. Unlike traditional nuclear plants that split atoms, the so-called ITER reactor will fuse them together at temperatures 10-times hotter than the Sun — 150 million degrees Celsius (270 million Fahrenheit).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... ce-projectThe Global Warming skeptics at WUWT respond:
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According to renewables advocates, renewables will soon be so cheap it won’t be worth pouring more money into researching nuclear fusion.
On one level its funny – advocates of a power concept which doesn’t deliver reliable energy trash talking a power concept which has never been demonstrated to work.
But the more serious issue is how it highlights the risk of putting the lions share of nuclear fusion research effort into ITER.
ITER in my opinion is in big trouble.
The President of France, the country which hosts the ITER project, is a hardline green – in my opinion it is conceivable he will respond to political pressure from renewables advocates, and make life difficult for ITER.
ITER itself is a multi-decade bureaucracy of a project which may never deliver.
Even if ITER delivers, what does it prove? At best it will demonstrate that it is possible to produce nuclear power from fusion – at some enormous premium to existing baseload power technology.
Time to diversify the nuclear fusion research effort.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/21/ ... ar-fusion/It doesn't sound to me like even fusion advocates are 100% on board with the direction the research is headed. Sounds to me like they're getting impatient with the theoretical and starting to want a push for results.