2006-07-28 19:42:57 · 5 answers · asked by kittu_16 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
There's a international joint project, ITER for fussion research. France was chosen (2005) as a site to build a prototype reactor that may be in service by 2016 (construction deadline). Several countries including the US, Russia, Japan, entire EU , Korea... and others are involved in this thing. ITER will be the first to produce net power and will probably take several more years of research to develop technology to convert energy into useful electricity. If everything go silky smooth according to their schedule they may have working prototype reactor that can provide energy for a town by about 2020.
So, yes there are people working to do build a working prototype within 10-20 yrs.
2006-07-29 22:50:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt 10 years maybe 20. After all it seems to take about 10 years to build a standard reactor and we already know how to do that.
I believe there is something to the cold fusion idea. When micro bubbles collapse as in cavitation the temperatures and pressures are very near those necessary for a fusion reaction. I know that the report on that a few years ago turned out to be incorrect but it may be possible. The only question is will it generate more power than it consumes.
2006-07-29 19:39:45 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fusion power has been predicted to be "10 or 20 years away" for about 50 years now.
I don't think there's any way of predicting when, if ever, we'll have a practical fusion reactor.
2006-07-29 03:03:31 · answer #3 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We could have had it 20 yrs ago. I toured the tokamak at Forrestal.
2006-07-29 02:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope..! not for another 50 -70 yrs
I mean on a commercial scale. We have dont it on a lab level thou !
2006-07-29 02:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by JessiMC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋