Recent content by adlhancock

@nikkkom, it's not really a question of "winning", as far as the strategists in the fusion community see it (apart from a few sensationalist outliers). The progress in solar and wind tech (two former wind engineers sit in my office), is obvious and should ensure that they take a central role in...

brenan, I'm sorry to see you end up with such a disappointed view of fusion, so will attempt to very briefly address your individual conclusions: 1. "contract protecting" - indeed. Sadly the nature of things when applying for limited funding in today's economic climate. It's worth digging...

Hmm. Yes, though it's worth differentiating between inertial (e.g. NIF) and magnetic (e.g. ITER/DEMO) confinement fusion. I'd argue from a clearly biased, though somewhat informed viewpoint that the challenges for NIF are the same as for ITER, with a few notable additions. NIF, has uses for...

Apologies for the dead link. Let's try again: http://www.efda.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/JG12.356-web.pdf or just google "EFDA roadmap", as I did. EDIT: It's a fairly technical document, but the executive summary's been written for MEP's so should be reasonably accessible.

Engineer working on both DEMO and ITER here. If you want a detailed explanation of where Europe sees the future of magnetically confined fusion going, there's a link here to the EFDA roadmap. The bottom line is electricity from DEMO to the grid in the 2040s, with commercial plants being built...