speaking of seemingly promising ideas to throw money at, france won its bid to host the international fusion reactor
The ultimate goal of the project is to finally crack the problem of how to tap into the immense power of nuclear fusion. Fusion is the same process that goes on in the centre of the sun, and it holds the promise of almost inexhaustible, clean safe energy generation.the ambitious project remains a daunting task as the bbc details
In terms of the physics and huge amounts of energy involved, the [International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor] project would be akin to building a star on Earth.but promising as "One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000 kg of fossil fuel."
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