Not exact matches
This radioactive isotope of hydrogen is
only manufactured in
nuclear power plants and would cost any
fusion generator $ 100 million per week.
Helion Energy, located in Redmond, Washington, believes they are
only a few years away from creating
nuclear fusion that can be used as a source for electricity.
JI: So the
nuclear fusion in stars can
only make the elements up to iron.
As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can
only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use
nuclear fission whilst
fusion is still being dveloped.
As a final remark - CO2 capture and storage can
only be a transitional technology - it can herald the hydrogen economy - it can also give us a choice not to use
nuclear fission whilst
fusion is still being dveloped.
All of the population and economic growth we have seen since 1950 was built on confidence that practical
nuclear fusion was
only 20 years in the future.
Re # 1: What??? All the economic growth we have seen since 1950 was built on confidence that practical
nuclear fusion was
only 20 years in the future??? Most of the world's population growth since 1950 has been in developing nations, where most people have never even heard of
nuclear fusion.
The
only technically (and economically) viable alternate to fossil fuel fired plants today is
nuclear fusion, which appears (post-Fukushima) not to be politically viable right now.
Today, most alternative energy technologies that are discussed — wind, solar, tides, waves, clean coal,
nuclear fission and, perhaps one day,
fusion — are useful
only for making electricity.
In real life, however, the
only way to transmute other materials into gold is through a
nuclear reactor (
fusion or fission depending upon the source materials) and you do need a permit from the
nuclear regulatory commission in the United States to build a
nuclear reactor.