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Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation

Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead.  The cover story in the June 2023 issue of Scientific American by Philip Ball, “Star Power: Does Fusion Have a Future After All?” recycles the corporate line which was broadcast on December 13, […]

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Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy”

Investors Have Now Spent $5 Billion Pursuing The “Holy Grail Of Energy” When it comes to nuclear fusion, the joke is that it is always just decades away, but that hasn’t stopped investors from spending $5 billion on chasing the holy grail of energy. In 2022, investors spent twice as much money as has ever […]

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The Tortuous Way to Nuclear Fusion

The Tortuous Way to Nuclear Fusion Newspapers make you think that nuclear fusion for electricity production is within reach and that, unlike fission, it is cheaper, cleaner, and safer. Okay, it’s not online yet, it is argued, but it’s up to us how fast it will supply useful energy. Things appear more complicated than that […]

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The only thing worse than an energy collapse

The only thing worse than an energy collapse We learned recently that one of the last coal power stations in the UK is bidding to become the first commercial nuclear fusion plant on Earth.  The news should be taken with a large pinch of salt… nuclear fusion has been 25 years in the future since before I […]

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Nuclear Fusion: is it still worth investing on it in an age of cheap renewable energy? 

Nuclear Fusion: is it still worth investing on it in an age of cheap renewable energy?  ITER TOKAMAK, looking carefully, at the bottom right circled in red, a human in a yellow jacket. The probable size of a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is huge and it’s at the core of most of its problems. My view […]

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Is Infinite Clean Energy Near?

Is Infinite Clean Energy Near? After decades of research and planning, a group of scientists in France are attempting to achieve the impossible: harnessing the heavens. They are building a tokamak, a donut-shaped, man-made, artificial star that has the potential to bring the universe down to earth and provide millions of years of clean energy. […]

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The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion

The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion There have been some pretty radioactive climate change ideas making the rounds at the COP21 talks in Paris. Team Hansen’s wildly unrealistic notion of switching on 61 new nuclear reactors a year was taking the cake until an even fruitier one reared its familiar head: the nuclear chimera known […]

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