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October 9, 2008 Nuclear fusion has long been the holy grail of energy production. It is the process going on inside the sun, it is clean, and it has the potential to provide practically limitless power. Up until now nuclear fusion reactions have only been replicated inside hydrogen bombs due to the huge amount of power needed to start the reaction and keep it running, but scientists in Britain are hoping to change all that. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper is reporting that British scientists believe they are on the verge of achieving controlled fusion in a laboratory for the first time and will begin work this week to create a nuclear fusion reactor. Unlike nuclear fission, the fusion reaction produces only produces very small amounts of low-grade radioactive material and does not carry the risk of radioactive meltdown. Fusion fuel, deuterium and tritium is also readily available in seawater. Just 2lbs of fusion fuel is capable of producing the same amount of energy as 10,000 tonnes of fossil fuel. Hopefully all goes well for the researchers and we’re all enjoying guilt free and eco-friendly electricity before too long.

Source: Gizmag.com

Incredible. 2lbs of fusion fuel = 16 US tons of coal or the like. I hope the experiments come to fruition!

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Tankman

Fingers crossed for the fusion researchers.

This is certainly the holy grail the world needs.

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That's potentially great news, hope it works out!