China Invests $1.4 Billion on Nuclear Fusion

China Invests $1.4 Billion on Nuclear Fusion
China has tossed down a $1.4 billion bet on the world energy roulette wheel. China's stake is 10% of a research project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, trying to unlock the secret to nuclear fusion, a potentially boundless, clean and cheap form of energy. China Invests $1.4 Billion on Nuclear Fusionenergy."Isn't this the exact same thing they said about nuclear fission back in the 1950s?View 5 replies to this comment (most popular has 5 diggs)+7 diggs by DiggityDugged 11 hours agoThat means we have to go to war with them, right Mr. ymbiont 10 hours agoThe problem with nuclear energy generation is that it can become extremely hazardous if the handler is careless, and I don't think anyone will be excluded. produces a viable amount of energy that can be used, that is even further away.View 1 reply to this comment (most popular has 11 diggs)-1 diggs by ErrorS 10 hours agoTo say I'm pessimistic about fusion will be an understatement.. energy to the rest of the world.View 1 reply to this comment (most popular has 1 digg)+8 diggs by Woknblues 10 hours agoour yearly budget for military spending is somewhere above 500 billion a year... energy it takes to create fusion and control it is more than the energy that you will get from the reactor.View 2 replies to this comment (most popular has 1 digg)+2 diggs by kirakun 9 hours agoI don't know why we need to build one. energy.It's called the sun.We can immediately harvest its energy using solar panels already. alternative ways of energy rather than 100 year old ways of coal and oil. environmentalist, wanna be scientists, foam at the mouth Liberals and of course the typical blame Bush bandwagon monkeys ALL OF WHOM ARE SO IGNORANT IT IS COMICAL!!! environmentalists who want progress yet *don't* want progress. source quoted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License.