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http://www.videogully.com/The-Starmaker ... vIUO4.html
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It explains pretty well what a huge kluge ITER is. The narrator seems thrilled by the prospect. As an engineer all I can say is ugh. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.
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ITER Video
ITER Video
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Man, they've probably spent more bucks for this presentation as the entire Bussard project was getting for a year!
Normally I wouldn't mind if it was not the open hostilities in the orthodox scientific community against anything new and innovative like polywell. Hostility which often degrades to ugly scuffle for money. Muscleing out enything that stands on the path between ITER(TOKAMAK) projects and their continuous funding.
So thumbs down for ITER, and charms squeezed for polywell to send this monster to oblivion and mankind to the stars!
Normally I wouldn't mind if it was not the open hostilities in the orthodox scientific community against anything new and innovative like polywell. Hostility which often degrades to ugly scuffle for money. Muscleing out enything that stands on the path between ITER(TOKAMAK) projects and their continuous funding.
So thumbs down for ITER, and charms squeezed for polywell to send this monster to oblivion and mankind to the stars!
It is not about hate. It is about stupidity. If Europe didn't have all its eggs in ITER's basket we might be farther along.scareduck wrote:I don't get the hate.
It's about budgets, okay. But both sides of this are attempting to get to the same destination, controlled terrestrial fusion.
Second - if it is worth doing it is worth doing faster.
With IEC we can go faster for less. If nothing else we might be able to get a better handle on ITER's feasibility quicker.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.