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To: teevee who wrote (5938)	1/2/2007 4:32:46 PM
From: insitusands	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30230

The tokamak design is five decades old and way more than $10 billion has already been spent on it. The ITER project, based on the tokamak (toroidal chamber in which a plasma is heated and confined by magnetic fields), is scheduled to be completed in 2016 if all goes according to plan. It will be a success if it can run continuously for one hour at a "Q" of 10, i.e. ten times as much energy comes out as goes in. Of course, this will not be achieved quickly, if at all as it is an experimental device designed to be developed over twenty five years and one that when finished with will take five years to decommission because the fusion chamber will be intensely radioactive. I'm not sure "breakthrough" is the appropriate description for such a project. Not in terms of an alternative energy source which is how I interpreted your post. This all just goes to show how difficult it will be to create new forms of energy.