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Old 28-11-2003, 00:10   #45
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Re: Wind v Nuclear
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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Fusion isn't yet ready, and won't be for at least 10 years.
Hmm. You may be being optimistic here. You are far too young to know about it, but in the 50s there were splash headlines in British newspapers about a fusion project called Zeta. It never succeeded. Speaking from memory, and I stand ready to be corrected here, the next big advance was the Russian Tokamak (sp?) design in the 70s (or 80s? - but still a while ago). And over 50 years on we still haven't got a practical design. It always seems to be jam tomorrow. Now, I'm not objecting to the research; I'm just not holding my breath.
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