Thermonuclear Fusion

Our Celestial Fusion Reactor

This is a long story of hope for pollution-free cheap energy that neither produces CO₂ nor long-lived radioactivity to dispose of.

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Here is the time scale we are discussing, garnished with promises that an energy-producing fusion reactor is just around the corner.

Red Baron reported about another milestone in 2022, but then he gave up. On the other hand, some like it cold.

Worldwide research is conducted on thermonuclear fusion. Most of it involves containing and compressing hot plasma in a vessel with magnetic fields.

Recently, Sabine Hossenfelder, the girl who talks about things she knows about, reported on a new idea for a Dipole Fusion Reactor forwarded by an Australian team.

Scientists at Openstar could contain a plasma of 30,000 centigrades for 20 seconds. They proudly declare:

Really?

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