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I think this report is getting slightly ahead of the gameWell, Germany has successfully created nuclear fusion, So soon, our power sources may be completely overhauled.
http://www.sciencealert.com/german-...red-up-a-revolutionary-nuclear-fusion-machine
I think this report is getting slightly ahead of the game. What they've done is to produce a machine that can create an environment, currently for one tenth of a second, in which fusion can theoretically take place. There's a way to go yet, before we actually get fusion. I have an uncle, now retired, who is a plasma physicist and who worked on the fusion project at Princetown University for most of his career. He reckons that large scale, affordable fusion that creates more energy than it consumes is still thirty or forty years off, although he would be delighted to be proved wrong.
If it can be achieved it will, indeed, revolutionise the generation of energy and pretty much solve future problems in that area.
By all meansWell it's a step in the right direction. Can I make a joke about German efficiency?
By all means
This is monumental thread drift, but I was once organising a secondment for an employee to work in Germany for a period of five years. She had a degree in German which she'd acquired about 15 years previously and in the course of which she'd spent a year working in Germany. When we were arranging things, I told her in no uncertain terms to register her religion as "Atheist" because there's a Church Tax on employees in Germany, and I thought she might avoid it if she said she was an unbeliever. She duly did this, only to get a letter from the German Tax Authorities a few weeks later informing her that their records showed that she had worked in Germany before, that they knew she was a Roman Catholic and that they would be taxing her accordingly. Efficient or what?
Incidentally, we're talking serious money, here. Church Tax revenues in Germany were about 8 or 9 billion Euro in 2010, according to Mr Wiki's Pedia
Well; I agreeChurch tax? ***..LOL
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