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how close are we to terrestrial nuclear fusion as a viable, economic source of energy?
    #5240200 - 01/29/06 09:01 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: how close are we to terrestrial nuclear fusion as a viable, economic source of energy? [Re: wilshire]
    #5240242 - 01/29/06 09:12 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Think decades.
Probably 3.


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Re: how close are we to terrestrial nuclear fusion as a viable, economic source of energy? [Re: Randolph_Carter]
    #5240512 - 01/29/06 10:44 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

i think it'll be within the next 20 years. it's really gonna shake things up.


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Re: how close are we to terrestrial nuclear fusion as a viable, economic source of energy? [Re: wilshire]
    #5241109 - 01/30/06 03:29 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Necessity is the mother of invention. I suspect we are very close to being able to extract usable energy from a controlled fusion reaction... ten years on the low side, thirty on the high. Fluctuations in oil availability could greatly change these numbers towards the low side.


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Re: how close are we to terrestrial nuclear fusion as a viable, economic source of energy? [Re: wilshire]
    #5241647 - 01/30/06 10:19 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

They've been saying 30 years for the last 50.


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