Next Big Future: Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Nuclear Aneutronic Fu...

Next Big Future: Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Nuclear Aneutronic Fu...: In 2014, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) will carry out our first crowdfunding campaign this spring. Given adequate funding and supplier...

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Interesting remarks in the comment section of the post.  It gives a bit of perspective on what they are attempting to accomplish.

It's true that it's hard to move on to new sources of energy, but one thing I have to keep pointing out is that molten-salt reactors were proven in the lab, but never commercialized.  The failure to exploit that scientific knowledge is all too often misjudged as a bad reflection upon its feasibility for commercialization.  Such may not be the case.

Everybody has their own ideas about what should be done, but if you are going to try something new, why not try something that has been scientifically proven?  A lot of the new ideas have not been.  This idea of aneutronic fusion has not been proven.

This doesn't mean I think that the research should be discontinued.  Far from it.  It means that we are just spinning our wheels when something is good and isn't developed.  It looks to me like we are just spinning our wheels all too often.