Has the Holy Grail of clean energy been found?

[Ksheed]

CNBC:

British Columbia-based General Fusion are hoping that the technology and methods they are developing will herald a new era in nuclear fusion. They have developed what they describe as a "Magnetized Target Fusion system."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102729780

[HydroDave63]

Problem is, the scientists keep looking int the wrong places. They promise the "power of the stars". Ok, well astronomy has shown that stars are surrounded by clouds of fullerenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene#cite_note-16 by IR spectroscopy. That would be far too complex of a molecule to be formed as a by-product of the fusion, but perhaps a precursor formed during the early formation of the star, under high pressure and magnetic density (think Jupiter)

If we go that route, what would be the easiest source of carbon for fullerenes?

Coal dust of course

[RDTroja]

Problem is, the scientists keep looking int the wrong places. They promise the "power of the stars". Ok, well astronomy has shown that stars are surrounded by clouds of fullerenes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene#cite_note-16 by IR spectroscopy. That would be far too complex of a molecule to be formed as a by-product of the fusion, but perhaps a precursor formed during the early formation of the star, under high pressure and magnetic density (think Jupiter)

If we go that route, what would be the easiest source of carbon for fullerenes?

Coal dust of course

They are actually found in abundance in lampblack. So we can go back to kerosene lamps for lighting our houses and really screw up our breathing air.

[GLW]

They are actually found in abundance in lampblack. So we can go back to kerosene lamps for lighting our houses and really screw up our breathing air.

not only can I interject MP into the thread, the MP title shares words and concept with the thread title,...

too cool,...

[GLW]

CNBC:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102729780

from the article:

For many, nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy, offering the possibility of limitless clean energy through harnessing the very same chemical reaction that keeps our Sun burning.....

I really need to learn what this chemical reaction is,...

Or perhaps, someone needs to discover it, so I can then learn what it is,...

[HydroDave63]

from the article:

For many, nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy, offering the possibility of limitless clean energy through harnessing the very same chemical reaction that keeps our Sun burning.....

I really need to learn what this chemical reaction is,...

Or perhaps, someone needs to discover it, so I can then learn what it is,...