Reply To: Could pB11 focus fusion device be modified to use thorium?

[Chuctanunda]

Aknhenaten: If you’re saying nuclear fusion is not yet viable, you are correct. This focus fusion project is attempting to engineer what is hoped to be a more feasible approach to fusion than the more conventional tokamak process. Tens of billions of dollars and decades of research by the top physicists around the world are working on ITER, the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor, located in France. Net energy from fusion is what powers the universe. That’s not in question. The challenge is akin to harnessing lightning, on a much bigger scale. Focus fusion is being developed with known physical principles and at least theoretically viable engineering. To say something can’t work without trying, just because it hasn’t been done successfully yet, well the Wright Brothers got the last laugh in their “impossible” endeavor. But then you must somehow think we might just succeed, and cause a huge increase in energy use and, heaven forbid, population increase.