{"id":42218,"date":"2019-01-02T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42218"},"modified":"2019-01-02T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:58:28","slug":"fusion-is-the-only-possible-way-to-replace-fossil-fuels-so-how-is-iter-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42218","title":{"rendered":"Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Preface. This website, and my book, When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the future of transportation<\/a>, and Martin Hoffert, et al in the 2002 Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet<\/a>, Science. Vol 298 argue that the only possible energy resource that could replace fossil fuels is Fusion.<\/p>\n

But given how soon energy will decline, and how far away ITER is likely to be finished, it is unlikely we\u2019ll ever come close to figuring out a way to make fusion work on earth.<\/p>\n

Alice Friedemann\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>www.energyskeptic.com<\/em><\/a> \u00a0author of \u201c<\/em>When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/em><\/a>\u201d, 2015, Springer and \u201c<\/em>Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers<\/em><\/a>\u201d. Podcasts: <\/em>Practical Prepping<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>KunstlerCast 253<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>KunstlerCast278<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Peak Prosperity<\/em><\/a> , <\/em>XX2 report<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Daniel Clery, et al. May 6, 2016. More delays for ITER, as partners balk at costs<\/a>. Science 352: 636-637<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the pat on the back that ITER officials were looking for. Last week, an independent review committee delivered a report that was supposed to confirm that ITER, the troubled international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France, finally has come up with a reliable construction schedule and cost estimate. But the report says only that the new date for first operations\u20142025, 5 years later than the previous official target\u2014is the earliest possible date and could slip<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And it underscores the challenge of ITER\u2019s ballooning budget. To start running by 2025, ITER managers have asked for an extra \u20ac4.6 billion, which they are unlikely to receive. As a result, the report says, ITER\u2019s ultimate goal\u2014producing a \u201cburning plasma\u201d reaction of deuterium and tritium nuclei that sustains itself mostly with its own heat\u2014will be delayed from 2032 until 2035 at the earliest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing? Preface. This website, and my book, When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the future of transportation, and Martin Hoffert, et al in the 2002 Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet, Science. Vol 298 argue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23689,11859,328,5933,5931,786],"class_list":["post-42218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-daniel-clery","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fusion","tag-iter","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42219,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42218\/revisions\/42219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}