[OT] Engine braking

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 06:50:46 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 22:10:07 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> My hopes are with fusion. Specifically ITER. My research is on 
>> diagnostics/data analysis for tokamaks, working with the guys 
>> at Culham, UK (MAST and JET). They are cautiously optimistic.
>
> When you read about fusion energy, you *can't* not be 
> optimistic about it. At times though, it feels like its *such* 
> a technological and *financial* hurdle, that the question is 
> more like "Will we have mastered this technology before gas 
> prices get so high a global recession will prevent us from ever 
> financing the research?"

When I say they are cautiosly optimistic, I mean that they are 
optimistic that ITER will be the last big pre-prototype Tokamak. 
Next step prototype powerplant.