Bringing the Sun down to Earth?


Posted by Mike Kremer on Apr 28, 2004 at 17:24
(62.188.48.74)

Just about every nation with a decent physics lab
has been racing away to produce unlimited energy, using Nuclear Fusion, just as our sun does.

The idea is to heat Hydrogen to 100 million ° C
keeping it confined and under pressure long enough
to form Helium, liberating Energy in the process.

Various Tokamak or Torus designs using Magnetic confinement have been tried for 30 years, with no sucess. Neither has smaller Lab setups using Laser
confinement worked.
Z-pinch plasmas is another method the Israelis are working on
All very interesting, unfortunately a Magnetic Field is no substitute for Gravity......which is what the Sun uses. Prehaps we ought to change tack and revue other energy producing ideas?
Solar Furnaces, even heat Exchange Pipes, sunk deep
within our Earth?
Would it be possible to cap a hot undersea vent with
a mile+ long vertical metal pipe, (open at the top)
Exploiting the upward welling of hot water to drive turbines on the way up?
Just an idea.
The people below, seem to be wasting an awful lot of our money.
Even if Tokomaks worked-they could never extract energy continuously.

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