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To: yard_man who wrote (2677)	6/25/2003 11:11:42 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4905

A physicist friend of mine says five years. Japan has some tokamaks that have achieved breakeven but they aren't practical and are deadends. As for ratios I've read .27 but he claims .10 is a good figure... but .01 might be more like it. Ballin has written a paper telling how we can make reactors mimicking the laminar flow of flux tubes on the sun's surface that will achieve stable pinch, i.e., controlled nuclear fusion. What's five more years after 50 years of research? -g-