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RE: 24-hr laptop
By misuspita on 10/9/2006 7:19:14 PM , Rating: 2
In the case of nuclear fission powerplants, yes, there's problems storing the waste material. But if the new type of nuclear fusion power plants does well (currently testing in France, multi-billion, multi-national program) then there would be less problems with nuclear waste (in case of ission, the uranium stayes active for a few hundred thousand years, while the fusion by-products only for 12 years). Hence a plus for going all-electric

RE: 24-hr laptop
By Shining Arcanine on 10/10/2006 7:30:08 AM , Rating: 2
They still do not have the technology to build a nuclear fusion power plant. All successful nuclear fusion reactions done in laboratories to date are unfeasible to do on a large scale. France is trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors, so it is investing heavily in the research that would make their development possible, but it is not yet possible to build one and nuclear fusion is not yet well enough known to say how you would build one definitively.

RE: 24-hr laptop
By number999 on 10/10/2006 2:30:17 PM , Rating: 2
The ITER being built is supposed to be a break even energy plant. Even if it works, a working fusion reator is way off.

It is an international effort. It was suppose to be built in Southern Ontario, Canada due to production of deuterium and tritium but the Ontario gov't pulled out due to economic fears. Too bad but what can you do.


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