On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:12:24 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc wrote:

On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 11:28:19 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46219656

Fusion power is a potential source of clean, cheap energy. Calling a tokamak,
say, a "miniature sun" is, in my opinion, too much of a stretch. Using that term
in the case of inertial confinement fusion is not as bad, but still, a naive
reader might imagine a "miniature sun" as something still held together by its
own gravity.

Apparently, though - the article won't display for me in a reasonable time, my
connection is having problems today - the issue is that the BBC published a news
release in an uncritical manner that seems to be highly overoptimistic.
Uncritically publishing news releases, however, is very common, so the BBC can
hardly be singled out to be faulted for that.

John Savard

While the article displayed well for me, after the 1st couple sentences,
it came across as overly-hyped: a mixture of bits of truth and
distortions. Not good jouranlism - imo.
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