oh dear: Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star

[PAH]

So the Americans are going for Nuclear Fusion? A limitless supply of cheap power.

A technology that will generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth, from a speck of fuel little bigger than a pinhead.

So much for global warming, this will make it pretty damn hot. Even hotter than a Kelly Brook/Keeley Hazell 'head' massager.

I wish I'd got one of them for christmas.

F....!

[TimberWolf]

Just one comment - those bozos will blow up this planet one day and we won't even have enough time to say F....! I suppose another mini-Sun on Earth's orbit might make some of the outer rim planets more hospitable

Not in the foreseeable future - it will be a major accomplishment if they get out as much energy as they put in. People have been getting excited about fusion since at least the 60s, and it's always been just around the corner. No different today.

[Mich the Tester]

The result should be an explosion in the 32ft-wide reaction chamber which will produce at least 10 times the amount of energy used to create it.

Can they put Gordon Brown inside it?

[AtW]

Can they put Gordon Brown inside it?

No - that would make the reaction endothermic.

HTH