I came across this Economist podcast: Babbage: Fusing the future.....quite interest. According to the report From "Iter, the world's largest collaborative fusion experiment, to private start-ups, he talks to the organisations racing to be first to create fusion power. Could the long-promised dream of nuclear fusion—to provide clean, limitless, carbon-free energy—finally be about to come true? "
" ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.....Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea for an international joint experiment in fusion was first launched in 1985....ITER's First Plasma is scheduled for December 2025. That will be the first time the machine is powered on, and the first act of ITER's multi-decade operational program."
Wait a minute, it started in 1985, currently it is still being working on and is scheduled to have the first "turn on" in 2025, another six years. I don't believe that it will work because there are just too many people and too many nations are involved. If it works, then someone or something will try to destroy it. This is just the way we as human are wired. Just look at history, there are just too many examples. Then again, let's hope that I am wrong.
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