On Friday, 16 November 2018 13:12:27 UTC-5, 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

Forget the BBC, go to phys.org. Take every glad prediction about an invention or advancement they post on. Come back in 2 years. Almost NONE will have come to pass. Favourites include greatly advanced batteries and flying cars. BTW, where is that space elevator?