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A Spark of Hope for Fusion - A new device clears an obstacle to a type of fusion power plant.
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| 05/01/2007
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Posted on 05/30/2007 11:56:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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One must take baby steps before one learns to run.........
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posted on
05/30/2007 11:57:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
To: Red Badger
ultrahot plasma and containing it within a magnetic field Eject the core!!
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:01:26 PM PDT
by
Pete
(My kid sister's first novel: Far Horizons at http://www.amazon.co.uk/)
To: Red Badger
Is this going to be like “cold fusion” was a few years ago - enormous hype about “new cheap” energy, only to hae it turn out to be a misreading of some unrelated activity?
Personally, I am holding out for dilithum power.
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:02:55 PM PDT
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alloysteel
(Choose carefully the hill you would die upon. For if you win, the view is magnificent.)
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You should have seen me jump when I started reading this headline! I thought for sure someone had nuked Belgrade!
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:04:26 PM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
To: Red Badger
The one under construction is a tokamak (sp?) that is tremendously expensive. This is quite exciting.
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:06:00 PM PDT
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: Red Badger
Have Sandy and Hazel concocted a way to get this to their friends in the Far East??
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:07:24 PM PDT
by
jblair
(Son of a Wild Weasel)
To: alloysteel
This is actual fusion, not the cold and fake fusion. 30 years means 50% longer than forever.
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:08:36 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: alloysteel
“Personally, I am holding out for dilithum power.”
All we need to find is a few Zero Point Energy modules. Thats what StarGate command is looking for!
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:09:19 PM PDT
by
Syntyr
(Freepers - In the top %5 of informed Americans!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:11:12 PM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
To: Red Badger
even if the project is successful, commercial-scale fusion power plants will still be decades away It's been "decades away" for, well, decades.
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:11:43 PM PDT
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r9etb
To: r9etb
Con-fusion say: He who plants fruit trees must be thinking about the next generation, for he will not harvest the fruit in th present season........
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:17:54 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
To: Red Badger
He who plants fruit trees must be thinking about the next generation, for he will not harvest the fruit in the present season........ In the case of fusion research, I think we've reached the next, next, next generation without a harvest.....
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:20:27 PM PDT
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r9etb
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:21:55 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Pete
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:21:59 PM PDT
by
Terpfen
(It's your fault, not Pelosi's.)
To: r9etb
God said that man is intelligent enough to surmount any problems.........
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:23:42 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
To: Red Badger
God said that man is intelligent enough to surmount any problems...Yeah, but has he seen the idiots I have to work with all day???? (just kiddin Lord - looking about nervously)
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:31:42 PM PDT
by
lovecraft
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: Red Badger
Sounds as though we have a marvelous new power supply for rail guns.
To: Red Badger
Even if money were no object, it could take 30 years to build a system, says Keith Matzen, director of pulsed power projects at Sandia. If we needed it, and therefore there was money in it right now, we'd do it a lot quicker.
30 years sounds like there's a 35-year-old researcher working for the government that really wants job security.
To: RightWhale
Sandia Labs has been 30 years away from fusion for the last 50 years.
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posted on
05/30/2007 12:41:48 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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