bripat9643
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MIT and Rockwell are working on smaller reactors that use superconductors to create the magnetic bottle. They won't need to be "scaled." Still, until this technology is perfected, there's no market for Helium 3.It is not a question of lack of tech at this point it is a question of scaling. There is no known issue with scaling it to commercial levels at this time. How ever we have thought this before when scaling other tech and then we go and do it and discover these issues. I am very excited but we wil not know if there is no issues with scaling unti we actually do it. We are in this process right now. It will be five years till the first large reactors are made and put into testing. My fingers are crossed. This could be a real game changer as to what humans can actually achieve. I do not know how old you are but if you are younger than me there is a real possibilty that fusion will be online and astroid mining will be a norm in your life time.It probably is, but first we need a market for it. Than't won't happen until the perfect fusion.Helium-3 is why we need a permanent presence on the Moon, the theory is that the surface is covered with it.Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
Progress in Fusion - How has the technology advanced?
Progress in Fusion - How has the technology advanced?
MIT Achieves Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion - Helium-3 Nuclear Fusion Increases Ion Energy
What does this do to some of the conversations we have been having? This stuff is likely to be producing electricity for you in the next ten years. What this does to the cost of manufactoring as factories and companies will be relieved of huge energy bills. Makes pollutant energy obsolete. Allows those materials to be used in construction materials instead. It cures a great deal of the arguments we are having! I wonder what unforseen arguments it will create? I hope you all weigh in.