<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: An Artificial Sun on Earth</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/</link>
	<description>Alternative Energy News and Information about Renewable Energy Technologies: Articles, Discussions, News and Videos.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:53:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: Bala Jitendra</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-11905</link>
		<dc:creator>Bala Jitendra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-11905</guid>
		<description>Hi Friends,

When we are thinking of creating Artificial sun, why to wait for so long years?
Here are some of my inputs want to share with you:
1. Why dont we create an Artificial Sun without following Nuclear Fission or Nuclear Fusion process?
2. First we can create a sun like body, which is rotating and revolving around the earth like moon and works only at nights.
This can be possible of keeping a body and maintaining its position on the space, such that it absorbs sun&#039;s radiation and will use it turning into light at the nights.
If we are succeeding in this, we can save huge amount of electricity in forms of lights. 
Also, it is helpful if we keep our artificial sun (working with Solar Energy) emits O3(Ozone) as the by-product.
In this manner, we can protect our environment and also can avoid nuclear powers to control on Mankind.

Please correct me, if anything above of my points goes wrong.

Thank you one and All</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Friends,</p>
<p>When we are thinking of creating Artificial sun, why to wait for so long years?<br />
Here are some of my inputs want to share with you:<br />
1. Why dont we create an Artificial Sun without following Nuclear Fission or Nuclear Fusion process?<br />
2. First we can create a sun like body, which is rotating and revolving around the earth like moon and works only at nights.<br />
This can be possible of keeping a body and maintaining its position on the space, such that it absorbs sun&#8217;s radiation and will use it turning into light at the nights.<br />
If we are succeeding in this, we can save huge amount of electricity in forms of lights.<br />
Also, it is helpful if we keep our artificial sun (working with Solar Energy) emits O3(Ozone) as the by-product.<br />
In this manner, we can protect our environment and also can avoid nuclear powers to control on Mankind.</p>
<p>Please correct me, if anything above of my points goes wrong.</p>
<p>Thank you one and All</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: MDK</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-9420</link>
		<dc:creator>MDK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-9420</guid>
		<description>To John
Eliminating the electron cloud with a Positron Emission Tomography scanner is not possible the scanner only eliminate the electron cloud on a very basic level.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To John<br />
Eliminating the electron cloud with a Positron Emission Tomography scanner is not possible the scanner only eliminate the electron cloud on a very basic level.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Elliott Bettman MD</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-7954</link>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Bettman MD</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-7954</guid>
		<description>Boy I&#039;d like to smell Achminedjad&#039;s shorts (not really) the day fusion comes in. The other OPECkers Mexico and the Texas oilmen too! 

Catalytic cold fusion with palladium should be tried. They are putting a square peg in a round hole here. Maybe a warp one spaceship could harness a quasar and beam it back as a laser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boy I&#8217;d like to smell Achminedjad&#8217;s shorts (not really) the day fusion comes in. The other OPECkers Mexico and the Texas oilmen too! </p>
<p>Catalytic cold fusion with palladium should be tried. They are putting a square peg in a round hole here. Maybe a warp one spaceship could harness a quasar and beam it back as a laser.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-6993</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-6993</guid>
		<description>I think they are approaching this whole thing (fusion) the wrong way (via lasers).  They are trying to kill a &#039;mosquito&#039; with a &#039;grenade&#039;, when all they really need is a &#039;fly-swatter&#039;.

Fusion is the joining of the nuclei of two or more atoms.  The nuclei contains &gt;99.9+% of the mass, but almost no volume.  The majority of the volume is occupied by the &#039;electron cloud&#039;.  The &#039;electron cloud&#039; keeps the nuclei apart, and gives what is known as the Bohr radius (the distance between the nuclei, maintained by the electron cloud repulsion and the attraction of the respective nuclei).
  
The best approach to fusion would be to eliminate the electron cloud, thus eliminating the Bohr radius repulsions (rather than smacking them so hard that they finally whack into each other).
 
The best way to eliminate the electron cloud is with a device that is at the core of a &#039;PET&#039; (Positron Emission Tomography) scanner (medical device found in many hospitals).  It is the Positron generator (the anti-particle to the electron).

Using the Positron generator to eliminate the electron cloud (positrons and electrons act as waves, and &#039;cancel&#039; each other out when they come in contact)of a sample insulated from electron flow would initiate fusion within the sample.  You would have your &#039;mini sun&#039; with the resultant controlled energy release.  The energy release is not from particle and anti-particle collisions, but rather the resultant fusion that simultaneously occurs with the particle annihilations. I dare any physicist to try this test and prove me wrong!  Fusion is possible with current technology!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think they are approaching this whole thing (fusion) the wrong way (via lasers).  They are trying to kill a &#8216;mosquito&#8217; with a &#8216;grenade&#8217;, when all they really need is a &#8216;fly-swatter&#8217;.</p>
<p>Fusion is the joining of the nuclei of two or more atoms.  The nuclei contains >99.9+% of the mass, but almost no volume.  The majority of the volume is occupied by the &#8216;electron cloud&#8217;.  The &#8216;electron cloud&#8217; keeps the nuclei apart, and gives what is known as the Bohr radius (the distance between the nuclei, maintained by the electron cloud repulsion and the attraction of the respective nuclei).</p>
<p>The best approach to fusion would be to eliminate the electron cloud, thus eliminating the Bohr radius repulsions (rather than smacking them so hard that they finally whack into each other).</p>
<p>The best way to eliminate the electron cloud is with a device that is at the core of a &#8216;PET&#8217; (Positron Emission Tomography) scanner (medical device found in many hospitals).  It is the Positron generator (the anti-particle to the electron).</p>
<p>Using the Positron generator to eliminate the electron cloud (positrons and electrons act as waves, and &#8216;cancel&#8217; each other out when they come in contact)of a sample insulated from electron flow would initiate fusion within the sample.  You would have your &#8216;mini sun&#8217; with the resultant controlled energy release.  The energy release is not from particle and anti-particle collisions, but rather the resultant fusion that simultaneously occurs with the particle annihilations. I dare any physicist to try this test and prove me wrong!  Fusion is possible with current technology!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: anthony</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-4233</link>
		<dc:creator>anthony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-4233</guid>
		<description>To allan, # 5. I am very interested in this. I have been thinking of a similar idea for a few years now. A magnetic core that produces energy that will run off of it self, the positive and negative attraction and opposing. In which a way that will give no waste. I would like to know more of what you have to say. Email me antbgordon[AT]yahoo.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To allan, # 5. I am very interested in this. I have been thinking of a similar idea for a few years now. A magnetic core that produces energy that will run off of it self, the positive and negative attraction and opposing. In which a way that will give no waste. I would like to know more of what you have to say. Email me antbgordon[AT]yahoo.com</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: mark</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-4210</link>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-4210</guid>
		<description>While I would like wind/solar to take off this is an amazing technology and we shouldn&#039;t let the fact that it is complicated and potentially dangerous stop us. We just need to make sure it is done right, it will save the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I would like wind/solar to take off this is an amazing technology and we shouldn&#8217;t let the fact that it is complicated and potentially dangerous stop us. We just need to make sure it is done right, it will save the world.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Davo</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-4011</link>
		<dc:creator>Davo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-4011</guid>
		<description>like i said, they&#039;re not stupid. they wouldnt spend billions if it was no better than fission. magnetic fields can be contained as well by concentrating it. they say our earth has a huge magnetic field yet it barely spins a needle. and there will always be many sources of energy for many reasons. better than 30+ billion tons of co2 each year.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>like i said, they&#8217;re not stupid. they wouldnt spend billions if it was no better than fission. magnetic fields can be contained as well by concentrating it. they say our earth has a huge magnetic field yet it barely spins a needle. and there will always be many sources of energy for many reasons. better than 30+ billion tons of co2 each year.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: nate</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3994</link>
		<dc:creator>nate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3994</guid>
		<description>Great idea, for every ying there is a yang.  The magnetic forces from this project are suppose to be greater than any other magnetic force on earth.  

Well, lets do some abstract reasoning.  

If one great country builds this successfuly, every great country must have one of their own to be non-dependent.  If every major country has one.  What effect will the magnetic fields have on our oceans tides and sea and land life.  How do we know it will not cause insect problems which rely on the earth&#039;s magnetic fields.  The buildings that houses these suns may be covered up with geese  in the winter time who rely on magnetics.  

Now if it is possible to build this sun, it will never be the sole source of electricity for national security reasons.  Every country will have their weapons pointed at their enemy&#039;s solar sun,  which means our energy must come from more than one location or source.  And we would have to have antimissile weapons position to guard our chief source of energy.  So there is a possibility that a great country would have several suns or other alternative energy sources since relying on one is not wise.  

How about this.  For every great tool that has been invented.  It has been used to destruct.  Engines made for tranportaton eventually led to army tanks, guns made for killing food eventually led to killing people.  If we can make lasers to ignite hydrogen therefore creating more energy than was put in it, we can then use this elevated energy to propel a bigger laser to take out other countries.  So that would be the race after inventing the solar sun for our energy needs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great idea, for every ying there is a yang.  The magnetic forces from this project are suppose to be greater than any other magnetic force on earth.  </p>
<p>Well, lets do some abstract reasoning.  </p>
<p>If one great country builds this successfuly, every great country must have one of their own to be non-dependent.  If every major country has one.  What effect will the magnetic fields have on our oceans tides and sea and land life.  How do we know it will not cause insect problems which rely on the earth&#8217;s magnetic fields.  The buildings that houses these suns may be covered up with geese  in the winter time who rely on magnetics.  </p>
<p>Now if it is possible to build this sun, it will never be the sole source of electricity for national security reasons.  Every country will have their weapons pointed at their enemy&#8217;s solar sun,  which means our energy must come from more than one location or source.  And we would have to have antimissile weapons position to guard our chief source of energy.  So there is a possibility that a great country would have several suns or other alternative energy sources since relying on one is not wise.  </p>
<p>How about this.  For every great tool that has been invented.  It has been used to destruct.  Engines made for tranportaton eventually led to army tanks, guns made for killing food eventually led to killing people.  If we can make lasers to ignite hydrogen therefore creating more energy than was put in it, we can then use this elevated energy to propel a bigger laser to take out other countries.  So that would be the race after inventing the solar sun for our energy needs.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: conner</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3952</link>
		<dc:creator>conner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3952</guid>
		<description>I believe that creation of such a thing would only bring us closer to the destruction of our planet. The risk far out ways the benefit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe that creation of such a thing would only bring us closer to the destruction of our planet. The risk far out ways the benefit.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Davo</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3931</link>
		<dc:creator>Davo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3931</guid>
		<description>Fusion radiation is contained, unlike fission. It has 70% mass to energy conversion. that is 30% helium as the byproduct. And the half life for radiation is much shorter at 150 years though much more dangerous in the first 50 than fission waste.
&gt; no nuclear waste
&gt; hydrogen most likely made on site and uses very little (mass to energy)
&gt; without the equipment to sustain the fusion it will stop. unless its about the size of our sun

They&#039;re not stupid when they say its a good green solution for the future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fusion radiation is contained, unlike fission. It has 70% mass to energy conversion. that is 30% helium as the byproduct. And the half life for radiation is much shorter at 150 years though much more dangerous in the first 50 than fission waste.<br />
> no nuclear waste<br />
> hydrogen most likely made on site and uses very little (mass to energy)<br />
> without the equipment to sustain the fusion it will stop. unless its about the size of our sun</p>
<p>They&#8217;re not stupid when they say its a good green solution for the future.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: just watching</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3823</link>
		<dc:creator>just watching</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3823</guid>
		<description>It rises in the East every day! Spend the money on solar panels and wind turbines and stop wasting time!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It rises in the East every day! Spend the money on solar panels and wind turbines and stop wasting time!!!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: hihii</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3693</link>
		<dc:creator>hihii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3693</guid>
		<description>As connor very accurately explained, we&#039;re not talking about a sun here. The fusion reactor is something like the core of the sun, though colder, but so small that it can be contained inside a building. Just like today&#039;s fission reactors.

Actually fission and fusion reactions are both what can happen inside a nuclear weapon: Lots of energy is released. The key in both energy technologies is to keep the reaction slow. However, talking about dangers and wastes, the half-life for fusion waste will be about 13 years, while that of fission-waste is about 10000 years. Consider accident situations!

hihii</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As connor very accurately explained, we&#8217;re not talking about a sun here. The fusion reactor is something like the core of the sun, though colder, but so small that it can be contained inside a building. Just like today&#8217;s fission reactors.</p>
<p>Actually fission and fusion reactions are both what can happen inside a nuclear weapon: Lots of energy is released. The key in both energy technologies is to keep the reaction slow. However, talking about dangers and wastes, the half-life for fusion waste will be about 13 years, while that of fission-waste is about 10000 years. Consider accident situations!</p>
<p>hihii</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Raysor</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3685</link>
		<dc:creator>Raysor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3685</guid>
		<description>Well if we say they really make a tiny sun, isn&#039;t that a bad thing? I mean when the sun &quot;ends&quot; or what to call it, don&#039;t they say it will take the earth with it? If we now then make a tiny sun and they cant hold it what will happen? Doesn&#039;t sound too safe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well if we say they really make a tiny sun, isn&#8217;t that a bad thing? I mean when the sun &#8220;ends&#8221; or what to call it, don&#8217;t they say it will take the earth with it? If we now then make a tiny sun and they cant hold it what will happen? Doesn&#8217;t sound too safe.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: connor</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3674</link>
		<dc:creator>connor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3674</guid>
		<description>This is quite different from normal nuclear power. it is green. normal nuclear power is fission, this is the opposite. and to Karen, containment is not an issue, the problem is getting the fusion process working. The sun is just a metaphor, they are not creating a sun, but rather a self-sustaining fusion reactor. The sun simply creates energy the same way but on a much, much larger scale. There is a prototype reactor called the ITER currently being built in southern France by the U.S. EU japan and others that is able to produce 550MW of power with little environmental effects.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is quite different from normal nuclear power. it is green. normal nuclear power is fission, this is the opposite. and to Karen, containment is not an issue, the problem is getting the fusion process working. The sun is just a metaphor, they are not creating a sun, but rather a self-sustaining fusion reactor. The sun simply creates energy the same way but on a much, much larger scale. There is a prototype reactor called the ITER currently being built in southern France by the U.S. EU japan and others that is able to produce 550MW of power with little environmental effects.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Bhalaji</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3660</link>
		<dc:creator>Bhalaji</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3660</guid>
		<description>Its not an easy task to carry huge explosive fuel safely to the desired area.......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its not an easy task to carry huge explosive fuel safely to the desired area&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: guest</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3646</link>
		<dc:creator>guest</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3646</guid>
		<description>Nuclear power produces nuclear waste!
That is hardly a green thing to do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nuclear power produces nuclear waste!<br />
That is hardly a green thing to do.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Karen</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3635</link>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3635</guid>
		<description>Seems a little odd that we can&#039;t even develop technology to use the one sun that we already have (properly distanced from our Earth)  to meet our energy needs.  Now, they want to develop a sun, ON our planet  ....  and they think they can control that amount of power ..... why?   What do they do if it&#039;s more than they can handle?  Say, OOPS?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems a little odd that we can&#8217;t even develop technology to use the one sun that we already have (properly distanced from our Earth)  to meet our energy needs.  Now, they want to develop a sun, ON our planet  &#8230;.  and they think they can control that amount of power &#8230;.. why?   What do they do if it&#8217;s more than they can handle?  Say, OOPS?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Allan</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3632</link>
		<dc:creator>Allan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3632</guid>
		<description>40 years ago a bright guy described to me something very close to what these scientists are doing. He suggested suspending the fuel in a major magnetic field created inside a hollow ball made of the magnet segments, and spinning the fuel, just as the sun spins. His laser beam would also be contained in a hollow ball, with the inside of the ball having mirrors &quot;tuned&quot; to move the laser beam from one to the other, building up energy and velocity, which is then directed inside the magnet ball and hitting the fuel.

These are my memories of what he said, and may not be totally accurate, but they might interest someone, so I am posting it here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>40 years ago a bright guy described to me something very close to what these scientists are doing. He suggested suspending the fuel in a major magnetic field created inside a hollow ball made of the magnet segments, and spinning the fuel, just as the sun spins. His laser beam would also be contained in a hollow ball, with the inside of the ball having mirrors &#8220;tuned&#8221; to move the laser beam from one to the other, building up energy and velocity, which is then directed inside the magnet ball and hitting the fuel.</p>
<p>These are my memories of what he said, and may not be totally accurate, but they might interest someone, so I am posting it here.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: perry</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3630</link>
		<dc:creator>perry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3630</guid>
		<description>I am not convinced that this technology is so distant. 10 years ago the Australians managed to get more energy out than was put into a fusion reaction using lasers and complex polymers. It only lasted milli-seconds but shows what is possible. 

Now the JET (Joint European Torus) project has been handed to the French for industrialization after the UK has produced the necessary enabling technologies. When started it was estimated 30 years to produce the needed technologies and another 30 before the first power plants are seen.

Love it or loathe it, we need something of this nature because our requirement for energy is increasing exponentially whereas the green alternatives can only go so far because the land area they occupy is finite. If you assume exponential growth it quickly becomes energy or food or living space (or even air if we cover enough of the oceans to affect plankton levels)?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not convinced that this technology is so distant. 10 years ago the Australians managed to get more energy out than was put into a fusion reaction using lasers and complex polymers. It only lasted milli-seconds but shows what is possible. </p>
<p>Now the JET (Joint European Torus) project has been handed to the French for industrialization after the UK has produced the necessary enabling technologies. When started it was estimated 30 years to produce the needed technologies and another 30 before the first power plants are seen.</p>
<p>Love it or loathe it, we need something of this nature because our requirement for energy is increasing exponentially whereas the green alternatives can only go so far because the land area they occupy is finite. If you assume exponential growth it quickly becomes energy or food or living space (or even air if we cover enough of the oceans to affect plankton levels)?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Troy</title>
		<link>http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-sun-on-earth/#comment-3629</link>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/?p=559#comment-3629</guid>
		<description>I don&#039;t think one central nuclear power source is a good idea at all.  There will be constant strife over who owns or controls the ball and it could be used to destroy the Earth :-(  It doesn&#039;t take a genius to watch kids in a park play with one ball or one favorite toy... someone always ends up crying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think one central nuclear power source is a good idea at all.  There will be constant strife over who owns or controls the ball and it could be used to destroy the Earth <img src='http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />   It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to watch kids in a park play with one ball or one favorite toy&#8230; someone always ends up crying.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

