->  > Back then, they said that practical fusion reactors should exist 
->  > within TWENTY years! 
 
-> That's one of the reasons I say: "I'll believe it when I see
it". ;-) 
 
-> Cheers, Michiel 
  
As far as I know, fusion reactors have passed the point of "physical" 
break-even, where the energy produced exceeds the energy required to 
fire the thing up, but have not yet reached "fiscal" break-even, where 
the value of the energy produced, in terms of money, exceeds the cost 
of producing it. 
  
Money, of course, is a human fiction. 
  
                          dow 
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