Reply To: A new way of generating electricity

[jamesr]

I have been to several talks & seminars by Steven Cowley. For those that don’t know he is the head of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, which hosts the European JET and UK MAST tokamak programs.

Although his role now may be slightly more political and managerial, he is a scientist through & through. A good entertaining speaker, that can tailor the level of a talk well to appeal to the audience in question.

Being very much in the mainstream of fusion research, and the one who is requesting large sums of public money to fund the programs, I think there is a careful campaign by the CCFE to portray the tokamak approach, and the whole program leading onto ITER & DEMO as a low risk, inevitable and necessary project, that just needs time (&money;) to provide the worlds energy needs in 50-100 years time.

There is a resistant to anything, that distracts from this message.