ITER is supposed to start rolling out some results by 2025.
After that, each nation which takes part on this project will have the expertise to build a commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Last I heard, China was extremely interested in getting the ball going as soon as possible and they have plans to build their own version of ITER to skip ahead faster...
The EU is planning on building a demonstration reactor after ITER, so that electrical companies will only have to copy that DEMO machine...leaving the earliest commercial available fusion electricity well into the 2030's... in the EU.
The U.S....well, it depends on the petroleum lobby... they did back out of the ITER project at one time... no doubt after some pressuring...
Canada's in for the long haul.
India and Japan are also a pat of the group.
The world's most power hungry places are putting their heads together to make this happen...
It took years to develop the machine's schematics...it's still being tweak as the site is under construction. It took years for the politicians to agree on a location for ITER. It's taking years to build the damn thing. It'll take a few years until the desired results are achieved, as the scientists will not want to break the machine on its first run...they'll take it slow.
So...Some 20 years from now we may start seeing fusion power delivering electricity... our maybe it'll take longer.. well see.
After that, each nation which takes part on this project will have the expertise to build a commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Last I heard, China was extremely interested in getting the ball going as soon as possible and they have plans to build their own version of ITER to skip ahead faster...
The EU is planning on building a demonstration reactor after ITER, so that electrical companies will only have to copy that DEMO machine...leaving the earliest commercial available fusion electricity well into the 2030's... in the EU.
The U.S....well, it depends on the petroleum lobby... they did back out of the ITER project at one time... no doubt after some pressuring...
Canada's in for the long haul.
India and Japan are also a pat of the group.
The world's most power hungry places are putting their heads together to make this happen...
It took years to develop the machine's schematics...it's still being tweak as the site is under construction. It took years for the politicians to agree on a location for ITER. It's taking years to build the damn thing. It'll take a few years until the desired results are achieved, as the scientists will not want to break the machine on its first run...they'll take it slow.
So...Some 20 years from now we may start seeing fusion power delivering electricity... our maybe it'll take longer.. well see.
