Reply To: Fusion Oil

[Rezwan]

But do they expect the tokamak to work? I don’t think the tokamak is even on most people’s radar – it’s not seen as a credible option. Which makes it vague. Also pork. And we want humanity to dare to go beyond that, to strive for diverse approaches and more aggressive tackling of fusion. Alas, the sissies draw the line at the Tokamak pork. (Ooh! Another one for the cooking forums).

Hmm. That was Tkmk-baiting. Note, the opinions in this post do not necessarily reflect those of the focus fusion society : ) We’re just batting around frameworks.

Problem with “not as hard as you think” is that we haven’t proven that yet. We hope it’s not as hard.

And that’s a potential negative. If we still have a hard time, yet we say it’s not that hard, that makes us lame. A losing proposition. You want to make it tough, but yourself tougher. But not so tough that it’s impossible.