from the Ben Pile article: Just a small fraction of the many # billions spent each year on subsidising the extremely inefficient renewable energy sector could finance instead an array of projects like ITER —
the European fusion research programme — where currently many countries now share just one.
Just a small fraction of the many # billions spent each year on subsidising the extremely inefficient renewable energy sector could finance instead an array of projects like ITER —
the European fusion research programme — where currently many countries now share just one.
Not exact matches
When the full extent of the cost overruns became apparent last year, the
European Union found that its funding pot for
fusion research, which runs to the end of 2013, was short by $ 1.3 billion.
If the United Kingdom votes to leave the
European Union on 23 June,
fusion research may be particularly hard hit.
Europe's largest
fusion facility, the Joint
European Torus (JET), is sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a legal limbo that could halt vital
research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.
The «
European Consortium for the Development of
Fusion Energy», EUROfusion, coordinates
fusion energy
research in 28
European countries * through 30 Consortium Members and about 150 universities, laboratories and industry.
Chris Warrick from the
European Fusion Development Agreement explains why
research into
fusion offers the hope of a safe and environmentally responsible energy source.