I see, makes sense. Small amount of mass converts into a high amount of energy. Making this viable would be a major step in getting rid of fossil fuels and nuclear power. And making energy production safer too, the recent oil spill proves you don't need an explosion for a disaster.

Wow, that's a very bad idea. We could even destroy humanity itself with this. The heat and brightness of a star would kill so many people, if not all.

You might be right if this was a star (as in a giant dense cloud of gases held together by its own gravity and undergoing fusion).... but.... it isn't.

Instead it is just the newest in a line of tests on the viability of fusion power. None of the previous has ended life on the planet (obviously), and neither will this one, in fact this one is smaller than previous fusion experiments.

:rofl:

Well. I have no clue about physics or the like and so cannot go around debunking these theories and ideas, all I can do is say what I feel about the subject. /Disclaimer over.

As before with the LHC and the moon "bombing" (ok.. not bombing) and the plans to live on Mars.. I always think priorities are being set wrong. The money put into these experiments should be going into fixing the world's problems, not making new stuff to pile up on the broken stuff (the article the OP linked said something similar).
Also, if it's man-made, it can break. I think there are just so many things man doesn't know about nature that there is something that they were not able to take into consideration. Hence, there is always a risk of danger. And nature isn't something we should be messing around with to such an extent...

I don't know, I can't back up my thoughts with facts, I just have bad feelings about these kind of experiments.

Actually, with sustainable nuclear fusion, a lot of our current problems would definitely go away. Cheap, effectively limitless energy would drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, which would ease a lot of tension right now.

It would also probably get the ball rolling on setting up infrastructure for electric car recharging, and likely boost R&D and sales of said electric cars. That is, again, if it isn't crippled and dismantled and then swept under a rug by lobbyists.

This thread has just become a black hole - post limit.