Reply To: Wealth of Nations, and Economics of Abundance

[Rezwan]

Great post, Andy! We’ll have to put this in the news section. The ITER pitch. Dr. Green acknowledged the many different kinds of fusion possible, and his basic objection to Boron/Hydrogen was the high temperatures required. Then they brushed it off with “this is too detailed a discussion – let’s have the next question.”

The next question turns out to be:

Does the potential of fusion mean we give up on fast breeder reactors?

To which he says:

Absolutely not. …I think you will do everything. the energy problem is so big, so severe that you will just do everything. … fission is here. Fission works. Fission works well. If you want to start making an impact in the energy production game you use what you have. We’re [fusion is] a gleam in the eyes as it were. But as I keep pointing out, if you don’t continue with this work, one thing is absolutely certain, you won’t produce anything.

The irony being, they’ll do everything but try out the Boron Hydrogen fusion and other non Tokamak approaches :blank:

Still, very inspiring. We have a better product, we just need better marketing – to polish our act and take it on the road so to speak. And we’re doing that now, with, among other things, random unnamed people in Australia raising the issue in a clear and eloquent way. He explained it well in that short time.