The UKAEA team, who were at the science event in Didcot emailed me with some dates for public open evenings at my local fusion experiment.
Sounds interesting! Looking back over the power plants I've visited since I was a kid, my CV reads like this:
I've also been to the centre for alternative energy in Wales and seen solar water heating and geothermal energy in use in France.
Fusion can be my next, hopefully ITER, the next big experiment will viably produce power!
Showing posts with label Fusion Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fusion Power. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Greenpeace on fusion: Whatever it is, we're against it
Last weekend was the hugely over-hyped Didcot First Science Event. There I got to see some fun science demonstrations and took away a CD-ROM about Fusion Power. There was also a board for everone to write their opinions on which I thought was good fun.
There was no community interaction on the internet though, this got me thinking about how all the academics need to get their message out better online as was the case for CERN.
Anyway, luckily my CD-ROM drive hadn't packed up from lack of use and I watched the animated slide-show from the guys over at the JET laboratory in Culham. It was reasonably interesting, for me, a trained scientist... I hope the other people who picked it up felt the same. I'd love to share it but I wouldn't want to get a rep for copyright infringement.
Later, I heard from Richard Kemp a fusion scientist, via my brother Stephen. They passed on this great link from theregister.co.uk in which Andrew Orlowski systematically castigates Greenpeace for their suspicion of Fusion Power. It's a powerful and amusing piece, with a great soundbite at the end.
Ranting is fun, and great names like Patrick Moore wouldn't have abandonned Greenpeace unless Orlowski had a point.
But how do we get the good news flowing about science?
There was no community interaction on the internet though, this got me thinking about how all the academics need to get their message out better online as was the case for CERN.
Anyway, luckily my CD-ROM drive hadn't packed up from lack of use and I watched the animated slide-show from the guys over at the JET laboratory in Culham. It was reasonably interesting, for me, a trained scientist... I hope the other people who picked it up felt the same. I'd love to share it but I wouldn't want to get a rep for copyright infringement.
Later, I heard from Richard Kemp a fusion scientist, via my brother Stephen. They passed on this great link from theregister.co.uk in which Andrew Orlowski systematically castigates Greenpeace for their suspicion of Fusion Power. It's a powerful and amusing piece, with a great soundbite at the end.
Ranting is fun, and great names like Patrick Moore wouldn't have abandonned Greenpeace unless Orlowski had a point.
But how do we get the good news flowing about science?
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