On Friday, October 24, 2014 5:14:07 AM UTC-4, snidely wrote:
David Spain is guilty of

Guilt by association? ;-)

as of
10/16/2014 9:48:36 AM
On Thursday, October 16, 2014 12:27:32 PM UTC-4, Rick Jones wrote:
Jeff Findley wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/n9dbofr



As usual, Aviation Week includes more technical details than the
"mainstream media".

And it seems they give rather different dimensions than the Reuters
article. Almost looksl ike a meters versus feet thing

The picture of a test chamber with people around suggests that they are
currently at about 6 *foot* by 4 *foot*, a cylinder with conical caps.


I believe however that is a test article called the T4, not a chamber of an actual reactor itself. It is being used to test ion and plasma confinement techniques not actually performing any fusion per say, at least as I read the article.

This group (once funding has been established, natch) wants to proceed in a "generation" per year step, with a working fusion prototype to be available in 5 years from start. However, even then it would not be a practical power generator. That was projected to occur 5 years *after* the working prototype was built or 10 years from today if started today. Actual power generation capacity is not clearly stated however the 100MW figure was mentioned.

(I'm assuming
that tinyurl URL is to the article I think it is, I have a slightly
irrational unwillingness to follow tinyurl-esque links).

Me too.

If it doesn't come with preview in the URL, you can go to tinyurl.com
and turn on preview mode.

Or edit the URL
as in http://preview.tinyurl.com/n9dbofr

Paranoia can be a tool, not just a handicap.

And if I don't trust my tools? I'm convinced my circular saw wants to send me to the ER... ;-)

David