Reply To: turn heat into electricity

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Being less bad than coal makes you good? I’m not so sure….fission nuclear accidents, Wikipedia….An awful lot of millions are spent repairing what were “just” minor accidents (were there only 3 major ones?). Weren’t we supposed to have learned from the first accidents, back in the fifties or eighties? Is a body count the sole criterion? The thing about a DPF, as I understand it is that if something goes wrong it just turns off. No meltdown potential. Kind of like the way a lightbulb goes out. There would be no release of radioactive materials that takes years, decades or centuries to abate. Why not try our damnedest to get it to work? Yet it’s hard to come by the funds to pursue Focus Fusion research, the funds have all gone to clean ups, repairs and new designs for fission…and gigantic tokamaks…great. Is that Greenland I see rising over there Physorg.com?