On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:49:37 -0000, Fredxxx wrote:

On 11/12/2016 22:15, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:12:27 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire
wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 11/12/16 22:06, dennis@home wrote:
On 11/12/2016 19:25, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:49:02 -0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , James Wilkinson Sword
wrote:

http://www.space.com/34960-star-in-a...tor-works.html

It doesn't seem to say that fusion has been achieved, only that
plasma has been generated and confined. Neither does it say that
any planned fusion generates more energy than it takes to run the
thing, nor how the energy surplus, if any, might be extracted.

Well it sounds like they've made a big step forwards.


People were making hydrogen plasmas when I was at uni, in the
basement of the physics building.
They were containing them in magnetic bottles too.

What is this new thing you think they have done?
They got $7.5m from the US government, who have obviously also
joined the EU, and spent it on a press release.

And ****** Wilkinson fell for it.

Stop feeding this pillock.
With no food he will just wither up and die.
When dead, the nation will save much dole money.

Shut up, you still use windows XP. Fusion probably looks like magic
to you.

I love XP, it has been kicking your arse around for nearly ten years. This
was so easy.
Windows '98 kicked your arse around before XP.

For Win98, there was no arse kicking, just constant crashing and rebooting.

Windows 7 is more reliable than XP though I admit it does gobble up lots
more RAM.

We're on 10 now.....

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