Nuclear Fusion Power Plants.

[cj7hawk]

I know this is one that a lot of people think is inevitable, but I'm not so sure. It's complex and the theory has been around a long time, but no one has managed to succeed with this yet.

The Americans came up with the idea of the Stellarator and the Russians with the Tokamac. Just a little more than a decade ago, ICF was declassified and then there's the Z-pinch machine. So far though, no one is really certain about what has to happen to build one that produces more energy than it consumes.

I'm sure we'd all love a "Mr Fusion" ( Truly one of the coolest things from Back to the future ) but I'd settle for one working fusion reactor that does what science has been promising for half a century.

David.

[RhodyDave]

I second this! I would love to have a home fusion plant, and be able to tell the utility company to go pound sand. Hopefully this is something we will see in the near future, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks the stakes are too high for the fossil fuel industries to allow this to be developed.