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Will cold fusion become a reality before January 2018?
Background: Researchers Run World's Largest-Scale Fusion Energy Simulation on Cray Supercomputer
"Fusion holds the promise of a revolutionary new energy source for the world, and this important simulation has brought us one step closer to making it a reality," said Yong Xiao, the UCI researcher who led the unprecedented simulation of electron turbulent transport in fusion experiments. "Advances in high performance computing are key to advancing the science associated with identifying and developing alternative energy sources. The Cray XT4 system provided the scale, reliability and sustained performance required to handle the tremendous amount of data produced by complex fusion simulations."
Researchers speculate that fusion, the power source of the stars and sun, could provide a cleaner, more abundant energy source with far fewer harmful emissions than fossil-fuel burning power plants and fewer problems associated with waste than current nuclear power reactors.
"This is an important milestone and we applaud the efforts of the research team at UCI led by Yong Xiao and Zhihong Lin and the critical resources provided by ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences," said Ian Miller, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Cray. "Cray systems are designed to tackle the most sophisticated and relevant challenges in science and engineering. This critical achievement is the result of the best minds in science converging with the highest innovation and scalability in high performance computing."
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS125390+29-Jul-2008+MW20080729
Category Editor Clarification
'Become a reality' means commercially available as an energy source. The question may be settled on a confirmed announcement of an imminent supply of such energy.
"Fusion holds the promise of a revolutionary new energy source for the world, and this important simulation has brought us one step closer to making it a reality," said Yong Xiao, the UCI researcher who led the unprecedented simulation of electron turbulent transport in fusion experiments. "Advances in high performance computing are key to advancing the science associated with identifying and developing alternative energy sources. The Cray XT4 system provided the scale, reliability and sustained performance required to handle the tremendous amount of data produced by complex fusion simulations."
Researchers speculate that fusion, the power source of the stars and sun, could provide a cleaner, more abundant energy source with far fewer harmful emissions than fossil-fuel burning power plants and fewer problems associated with waste than current nuclear power reactors.
"This is an important milestone and we applaud the efforts of the research team at UCI led by Yong Xiao and Zhihong Lin and the critical resources provided by ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences," said Ian Miller, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Cray. "Cray systems are designed to tackle the most sophisticated and relevant challenges in science and engineering. This critical achievement is the result of the best minds in science converging with the highest innovation and scalability in high performance computing."
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS125390+29-Jul-2008+MW20080729
Category Editor Clarification
'Become a reality' means commercially available as an energy source. The question may be settled on a confirmed announcement of an imminent supply of such energy.
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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We could use it now..
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_Hubdub_still_be_around_in_2010_1235/view
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/miot-mni120308.php
But I just took the time to read the links above, and realized they're not about cold fusion, but ordinary "hot" fusion, and that the rest of the text of the question is ambiguous. There might be an outside chance of commercial hot fusion happening, somewhere in the world.
Are some people taking this question to be about *any* kind of fusion providing commercial power by 2018??
The question's creator should clarify this, since either the title or the rest of the text is misleading.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a67cf72fe27770f9ec992da18169937d.a1&show_article=1
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