C moa wrote:Let's be clear, I'm not saying that hydrogen-boron has no future. I'm just saying that I find it a bit quick to say that ITER and consors could be easily replaced.
Hello C moa
- No one is asking to stop ITER, nor to "replace it easily", but simply to devote a very small fraction of this budget to research on hydrogen-boron fusion. And may the best win. It won't cost more.
- JPP does not say either says "that in one year we can do everything", but that in less than a year we could set up a z-machine more powerful than those of the Americans in order to explore the phenomena for the less disconcerting resulting from the magnetic compression, and, from there, to define the elements necessary for the design of a proto fusion power plant. You have to start at one end. Let us remember all the same that it is a rustic technique that can be realized now, relatively quickly, with current means, much cheaper than ITER and MEGAJOULE. It is for this reason that it represents an unexpected threat for fission power plants.
- The fission industry obviously knows that its days are numbered. That's why it needs to buy time to make them last as long as possible to amortize its significant research costs and to satisfy its shareholders.
- ITER is not a prototype of a power station, it is only a research tool, like the z-machine.
- The hydrogen-boron fusion will never be perfected, the reaction will never be modeled, no prototype will be released, there will be no industrialization as long as the entire research budget will remain dedicated to ITER and MEGAJOULE ( military).