Tokamak...Hidden Dangers?

the tokamak project. Fusion energy, using superheated plasma encased in an electromagnetic jar to create electricity.

Sounds great right? Using the power of the sun to create all the energy the world will ever need.

But what of the hidden dangers?

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Super heating anything to the temperatures required for Tokamak which reportedly are even greater than the internal core temperature of the sun is scary enough, lets not forget the magnetic jar that has to be there to encase this plasma which is even more powerful than the magnetic field of the earth.

What would happen if something went wrong? Would our magnetic pole be irreversibly disoriented? What in the case of a leak? Would the superheated plasma burn through to the core of the Earth?

Some links for your educational edification...
Operate Your Own Tokamak Reactor

Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

Tokamak

[edit on 7/1/2008 by whatukno]

Believe it or not I am a EE with specialty on plasma related topics.. I remember studying the Tokamak in one class. I haven't went to your links yet but appreciate the post of the subject. I know it involves magnetic containment of a fusion reaction.. Maybe easiest for general public to think of the Spiderman and Doc Oct issue.. You don't hear a lot about fusion any more.

the plasma would not burn through the Earth any more than a lightning strike would.

The dangers are highly localized. The people in the lab are at risk, but the rest of the world isn't.

the magnetic aspect, i am unsure about. i don't know how it effects the earth. i suspect it is very little...but that is a wild guess.

its because I don't know that I ask.

Whats odd about this is the new ITER project being constructed in France

en.wikipedia.org...

www.iter.org...

The temperatures here are astronomical, and the magnetic field generated is the scarry part. How do we know if that magnetic field won't warp Earths own magnetic field and completely disrupt the poles?

The danger here is the continued waste of billions of taxpayers dollars on a provably unworkable technology. Oh and by the way the fusion problem has already been solved using an upgrade of Philo Farnsworth's fusor technology. The genius behind this was the late Robert Brussard.

By the way Dr. Brussard also developed a reusable atomic propulsion system that would permit a moon flight to made in under 24 hours and a Mars flight to take place in less than a week.

www.americanantigravity.com...