Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by ksm1717 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:31PM
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Man, you’re just giving out ideas like this for free?
Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by Jugurtha on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:45PM
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They also have to change the name. ITER --> GLITTER, to go with the fusion --> sun --> star theme.
Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by philwelch on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:47PM
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Not all that GLITTERs is gold.
Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by MayeulC on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:53PM
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Well, I did visit ITER back in 2014, it was really nice, we went on a tour, saw the facilities, attended a presentation, saw models of the reactors, etc. It was all for free (but the train ticket). We were a small (6) group of students who asked if a visit would be possible, and we were pleasantly surprised by the answer. There was at least one other family with us, so it's not just students.
Making money isn't really the goal for ITER, though. PR and education is. The tour left us with a pleasant feeling about ITER, but we weren't the ones to convince. I didn't see that kind of tour advertised in any brochure.
Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
by imtringued on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:02AM
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They could have a theme park with lots of different reactor designs!
Not to mention, this could be an attraction. Sell tickets for guided tours. I would gladly give money to have a guide walk me through that. Granted, at $100 a ticket, and 10,000 people a year, it'll take 20,000 years to recoup the investment.
Therefore, they need to make ITER romantic to have millions of people flock to rekindle an affection as powerful as the sun, and fuse humans as ITER fuses atoms.
You need to create a ritual. A couple would go, each holding a cup of water in their hand. They would then pour the water into the system as individual cups, and ITER would fuse atoms forever.
Now you can have millions of couples instead of two people like me.
Apparently, there are 80 million people per year who visit the frigging mall in Dubai. Many also visit the Eiffel tower, which was built for an exposition by the way.