Science Squabbling

Totally unlike Tom Huddleston then. Although my limited physics suggests this is not possible. Something about the law of conservation of energy. squabble

Total energy of a system is conserved. The bits of atoms getting squashed together are in a lower energy than when apart. This reduction in 'binding energy' is released as heat etc... Energy is very much being conservered.

The tricky part is getting them to get together in the first place, a viable fusion reactor needs to use less energy getting them together than is released when together. All energy generation has an 'input' cost.

True. Fricking lasers- I prefer the magnetic torus model simply due to it being more fun to imagine, and a small version would handily fit in my spare wheel well under the boot floor.

Tokamak is the name for that design, the French/Europeans are building a full size prototype ITER. Total cost around £50 Billion for a working reactor. (About the cost of HS2)