Talk:Fusion power

Lawrence M Lidsky and L J Reinders
I believe that this article about "Fusion power" would be more complete if there was a reference to Lawrence M. Lidsky and his article from 1983 "The trouble with fusion". This is mentioned in L.J. Reinders work "The fairy tale of nuclear fusion" published by Springer.

Quote p.495: "The first criticism that aroused some attention goes back to a 1983 paper (Lidsky 1983) by the fusion insider Lawrence Lidsky (1935–2002), at the time a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT and associate director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He also was the founding editor of the Journal of Fusion Energy. Lidsky wrote a paper, called “The Trouble with Fusion” in the MIT Technology Review. At the time he said that he wrote it because “I couldn’t get an internal discussion going. Some didn’t care and some didn’t want to know.” I am afraid that is still the case. He actually was of the opinion that the fusion programme had come prematurely under the sway of machine-builders and that as a consequence science was suffering. An explicit goal was established, generating commercially competitive electricity from D-T fusion early in the twenty-first century. Once such a goal has been set, it is not easy to change. Producing net power from fusion is a valid scientific goal, but generating electricity commercially is an engineering problem, Lidsky said."

L. J. Reinders The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion, Springer ISBN 978-3-030-64343-0 ISBN 978-3-030-64344-7 (eBook)

https://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/iter/Lidsky-The-Trouble-With-Fusion-1983.pdf MIT Technology Review, October 1983

¨¨¨¨ 123johanlindeberg (talk) 16:09, 26 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, given the state of affairs with ITER, this appears true. What I would be interested in is how early is 'early in the 21st century'? First quarter? Johncdraper (talk) 10:27, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Remove "clarification needed"
I added information for a picture. There is a sign: "clarification needed". That could now be removed. GermanPhysicist1991 (talk) 10:15, 12 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Done. Johncdraper (talk) 10:24, 12 July 2024 (UTC)