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This technology was discredited a decade ago.

What's odd is that there's now a half dozen private companies and universities working in the field.

1 posted on 01/31/2015 12:59:03 AM PST by ckilmer
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“This technology was discredited a decade ago.
What’s odd is that there’s now a half dozen private companies and universities working in the field.”

Are they looking for grant money? After all, Obama’s been a sucker for ‘clean’ energy cons before.

I love cheap energy. Like right now it’s oil. [Grin.]


2 posted on 01/31/2015 1:41:32 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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“This technology was discredited a decade ago.”

The technology is anything but discredited. At most the technology is simply too early and primitive to produce decisive results one way or the other.

“What’s odd is that there’s now a half dozen private companies and universities working in the field.”

That is because the general principle is sound, and it is going to take numerous approaches towards implementing the general principle to see if current technologies are capable of utilizing the general principle to yield near future results. that are economically feasible.


3 posted on 01/31/2015 1:42:43 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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4 posted on 01/31/2015 4:50:31 AM PST by Rodamala
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Yet, some of our colleagues would have us believe that stars are just cosmic accidents, fortuitous random results of the expansion of the universe.

Kind of tough to invent self-sustaining multibillion year virtually infinite energy sources ain’t it?

Creator.


5 posted on 01/31/2015 5:15:22 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Bubbles are used in some coal wash plants to pick up the fines from the froth.


7 posted on 01/31/2015 6:22:40 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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What’s odd is that there’s now a half dozen private companies and universities working in the field.

...

The promise of free energy attracts a lot of con artists.


8 posted on 01/31/2015 6:28:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Strippers named Bubbles create energetic responses too.


9 posted on 01/31/2015 6:32:43 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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a process called sonoluminescene

I wonder it that is what I noticed as a teenager.
When cracking Ice cube trays in the dark, there
would be flashes of light. Always found that
interesting, couldn’t be bubbles but maybe related.


10 posted on 01/31/2015 6:45:53 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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This is only one of the promising non-mainstream fusion concepts being investigated. Another is inertial electrostatic confinement, which uses an electric field to heat ions to fusion conditions. One of the most interesting projects in this area is the Polywell. Research into this concept has been proceeding with Navy funding, The Wikipedia page on the concept is fairly informative as well as surprisingly apolitical.
11 posted on 01/31/2015 6:50:52 AM PST by Doug Loss
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Let me guess. With this process, viable fusion power is only a decade away.


16 posted on 02/01/2015 4:02:32 PM PST by samtheman
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