There is no current scientific explanation for how the first stars achieved this miraculous condition
[The current model is bankrupt.
But plagued by technical problems and cost issues, it has yet to carry out its first experiment almost a decade after the project began. Other far smaller experimental reactors are also being developed in the United States, but funding has been a problem.
There is no current scientific explanation for how the first stars achieved this miraculous condition of both ignition and containment all by themselves with no outside help. In fact the current cosmological model rests on the non-creation of stars.
...the historical example of the Manhattan Project achievement in remarkably short time with very difficult engineering problems...so therefore is not pursued with a sense of urgency which one would EXPECT given the AGW-alarmism propaganda@nou
IF Wendelstein and/or ITER works the next step will be DEMO. And the one after that would be the first real powerplant (scheduled for some time between 2075 and 2100).
At the present rate of development, that 'may' be accurate,.... but as proposed above, a global Manhattan'esque Project for fusion (and other alternatives), would render such estimates obsoleted.
Throwing money at it isn't going to make it go any faster.
Alternatives to the $20 billion ITER and billion dollar Stellarator, more progress on much smaller budgets.
http://spectrum.i...progress
This state of insufficient funding is rather disturbing and suspicious given the supposed threat of climate change,...
I suspect that a successful fusion-reactor would be unwanted and direct competition to liberal-progressive-government regulation and social engineering, as a solution to climate change,...
Fusion isn't going to be a solution for our problems re. climate change (unfortunately)
IF Wendelstein and/or ITER works the next step will be DEMO. And the one after that would be the first real powerplant (scheduled for some time between 2075 and 2100).
To have any effect we would need a worldwise installed base of thousands of reactors. So even by the most optimistic estimates this technology will come way too late (for Earth based deployment. We'll need it if we ever want to go to the stars, so it's still useful to keep developing it)
FredJose
Dec 11, 2015Here you can see the problems associated with trying to create fusion reactions. Firstly the ignition of the plasma and secondly the containment. Both of these are required for creating a star and both of these absolutely defy any notion that it will occur naturalistically , all by itself.
There is no current scientific explanation for how the first stars achieved this miraculous condition of both ignition and containment all by themselves with no outside help. In fact the current cosmological model rests on the non-creation of stars. Stars should not exist in that model. And if you don't have stars in that model you don't have planets or galaxies either.
The current model is bankrupt.