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Redball:
Through all of the discussion about Station and Spaceship, I've wondered about fusion power, even (snerk!) cold fusion, in QCverse. Discussion over the weeks touched on why this can't work or that must work this way. AIs, Station and a spaceship with plenty of legroom suggest power may be cheap enough to burn. In the 1950s, harnessing fusion power was considered only 30-40 years away. It's still 30-40 years away.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Redball on 30 Apr 2012, 11:29 ---In the 1950s, harnessing fusion power was considered only 30-40 years away. It's still 30-40 years away.
--- End quote ---
My first father-in-law ran the experimental team on the world's first major fusion device, ZETA*, at Harwell. In the 50s, when it was started up, he was pictured in The Daily Mail (which was a considerably more respectable organ than it is now) illustrating an article under the headline "Free Power in Ten Years".
* I am bemused by the proportion of the Wikipedia article that is concerned with the politics of the US attempt to catch up with the research in Britain!
It's curious that this post is in a thread entitled "Toilets"!
Carl-E:
Well, it's the best use of waste material I can think of. Poop powered fusion!
Kugai:
Yes, but what average house needs 1.21 Gigawatts?
akronnick:
One equipped with a flux capacitor, duh.
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