Pacifier

The most advandced fusion project is, as far as i know, the ITER (as you said canada is one of the locations http://www.itercanada.com/). But it is not yet build. Certain location are considered at the moment. ITER could start producing plasma 10 years after the start of construction.

An other quite successful fusion reactor is the JET (http://www.jet.efda.org/), which is the first reactor that produced a significant amout of energy, it emitted 1.8 kilowatt for the duration of 2 seconds.

There are a couple of other reactors in europe which research different aspects of the process. I don't know what the Status in the USA is, I only know that they stopped their work for the ITER.

some more links:

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/de/pr/index.html (german only)
http://www.iter.org/
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fusion1.html


Oh and BTW:
has anyone infos on the amout of oil the US produces and the amout it buys?

And when saying that you don't need foreign oil, think of the future, the oil fields in iraq and the middle east are much bigger that the fields in alaska.

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