Comments on: Headlines: Superconducting Cable System Brings Us One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion Reactors https://techsomogro.com/headlines-superconducting-cable-system-brings-step-closer-nuclear-fusion-reactors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=headlines-superconducting-cable-system-brings-step-closer-nuclear-fusion-reactors Science, Technology and the Future Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: lenrosen4 https://techsomogro.com/headlines-superconducting-cable-system-brings-step-closer-nuclear-fusion-reactors/#comment-10691 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:10:47 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=12683#comment-10691 Steve Papagiannis. Hi Steve, The impediment to a practical, economically viable fusion reactor has always been about energy in, energy out. What the University of Twente researchers have accomplished is creating conditions where the plasma containment can be maintained long enough to provide that net energy return. So the conditions for better than break even are almost met. With South Korea and China on a fast track to develop fusion my bet is they will be first to success well before ITER.]]> In reply to Steve Papagiannis.

Hi Steve, The impediment to a practical, economically viable fusion reactor has always been about energy in, energy out. What the University of Twente researchers have accomplished is creating conditions where the plasma containment can be maintained long enough to provide that net energy return. So the conditions for better than break even are almost met. With South Korea and China on a fast track to develop fusion my bet is they will be first to success well before ITER.

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By: Steve Papagiannis https://techsomogro.com/headlines-superconducting-cable-system-brings-step-closer-nuclear-fusion-reactors/#comment-10690 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:26:51 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=12683#comment-10690 Though this I’d a positive step, we still haven’t gotten a consistent break even on energy in to energy out. There is still a lot of research to get through before non-stellar fusion becomes viable for energy production.

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