25 Oct '14 11:40>
http://www.voanews.com/content/fusion-power-lockheed-reactor/2495404.html
One thing I noted in the article, they must have read the report wrong,
"David Ingram, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, said the difficulty of harnessing nuclear fusion is that it requires a temperature as high as the surface of the sun in order to occur."
If that were true, fusion would have been a reality decades ago.
It requires temperatures as high as the CENTER of the sun it should have read. And to get fusion for real, ten times the temperature of the center of the sun since we can't rely on a million kilometers of hydrogen to squash the fuel to fuse which takes place at a 'mere' 50 million degrees. Even THAT number would be relatively easy to obtained but alas 50 million degrees is not even close for Earth bound fusion reactors.
One thing I noted in the article, they must have read the report wrong,
"David Ingram, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, said the difficulty of harnessing nuclear fusion is that it requires a temperature as high as the surface of the sun in order to occur."
If that were true, fusion would have been a reality decades ago.
It requires temperatures as high as the CENTER of the sun it should have read. And to get fusion for real, ten times the temperature of the center of the sun since we can't rely on a million kilometers of hydrogen to squash the fuel to fuse which takes place at a 'mere' 50 million degrees. Even THAT number would be relatively easy to obtained but alas 50 million degrees is not even close for Earth bound fusion reactors.