Question: would it ever be posable to construct a miniture sun, safely ? further more coald it be posable to harnes the nuclear fusion ,and other energys released such as heat,light excetera safely as a form of more 'green' energy.

Sam Vinko answered on 13 Mar 2012:

Yes, a lot of us are working on this! The idea is to make the core of the sun for only a very short while, and also make it very small, so that we can control it. This is much like the engine in a car – thousands of miniature explosions occur in the engine every minute and these make the car move. If they were large explosions, the car would blow up all together, but since they are so small and controlled, we can harness their power for something useful, like driving to the beach. We want to do the same kind of thing with fusion explosions!