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A Spark of Hope for Fusion - A new device clears an obstacle to a type of fusion power plant.
www.technologyreview.com ^ | 05/01/2007 | Staff

Posted on 05/30/2007 11:56:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger
"One must take baby steps before one learns to run......

Or just think bigger. May as well build a giant containment structure around a conventional Nuke, set it off and harvest the heat as needed. I'm thinking building such a dome over the entire ME, and use that as a power plant to supply electricity for the entire world. All that sand would make a great heat sink and stay red hot for a long time after each 100 megaton nuke is fired, capable of running thousands of steam turbine generators.

Ok, back to reality. The earth sucks and is full of leftwing idiots...

21 posted on 05/30/2007 12:47:17 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: marktwain

Yes, and do EMSL.


22 posted on 05/30/2007 12:48:38 PM PDT by timer (n/0=n=nx0)
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To: Red Badger

That device would make a great power supply for a rapid-fire rail gun.


23 posted on 05/30/2007 12:49:41 PM PDT by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

A bit large, but yes, it would!........


24 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: marktwain

A bit large for a rail gun, but I’m sure they could make it smaller eventually......


25 posted on 05/30/2007 12:53:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Red Badger

Hey, it’s only 30 years away! And to think that when I was a young chap many years ago it was only 20 years away! That’s govt progress for you.


26 posted on 05/30/2007 12:56:48 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: domenad
"This is quite exciting."

So is watching paint dry. Yippie....

If you are alive in 30 years, you can give us a summary of why the next experiment, which will still produce nothing, was a colossal failure (a very expensive one). Oh well, it's only taxpayers money...

I'm with the other guy, and betting on dylithium crystal reator development. Of course, the Sorpion's idea of a small "sun" in a containment field (spiderman 1) was an interesting concept as well.

/s

27 posted on 05/30/2007 12:57:24 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: saganite

Government employees.....You can’t fire them and you can’t make them work..............


28 posted on 05/30/2007 12:58:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: lovecraft
Yeah, but has he seen the idiots I have to work with all day???? (just kiddin Lord - looking about nervously)

We got our sense of humor from somewhere.

Ask Him about the duckbill Platypus sometime.

29 posted on 05/30/2007 12:59:31 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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To: Nathan Zachary

This guy could fix it!........

30 posted on 05/30/2007 1:00:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Gorzaloon
duckbill Platypus.

"Ok, ok, get this. It's a mammal....but it LAYS EGGS!!! Screw you Darwin!"

With respects to Robin Williams.

31 posted on 05/30/2007 1:02:06 PM PDT by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: Red Badger

Large is good, then we could accelerate surplus 16” naval gun projectiles to 5-10 Km/sec. THAT would leave a mark!


32 posted on 05/30/2007 1:02:18 PM PDT by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

They wouldn’t have to explode, the kinetic energy alone would be devastating!......


33 posted on 05/30/2007 1:12:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Sherman Logan

We have been 40 years away from commercial fusion for 40 years. When they get to a sustained 1:1 machine there will be champagne and new pocket protectors all around.


34 posted on 05/30/2007 1:15:51 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
That device would make a great power supply for a rapid-fire rail gun.

No it wouldn't. A nuclear powerplant in a aircraft carrier is much smaller and actually produces useable power (More than enough for several rail guns of enormous size) to light up a city. This device produces nothing useable at all. I can produce short bursts of power here at home as well (millions of volts) with just a few large magnets and lots of copper wire. Like lightning, it isn't of much use however.

This device does seem to have one proven use, it can suck huge amounts of tax dollars out of our pockets.

35 posted on 05/30/2007 1:20:48 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Pete
ultrahot plasma and containing it within a magnetic field<>P>

Eject the core!!

Can I do this with T'pol?

36 posted on 05/30/2007 1:28:16 PM PDT by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: RightWhale
I don't know why they are even bothering with this kind of stuff, when we already have unlimited, unity plus capabilies, and scalar weaponry that makes star trek look primitive. (according to Tom Bearden and his following of leftwing lunatics).

We have:

time polarized weapons, a definate advantage to the insane and mad weopons developed by the soviets, which they try attack us with via the new " woodpecker" grid they've developed.

We have:

Quantum potential weapons quantum potential weapons are presently only held by three nations: Russia (in the hands of the KGB, which is now know by its new name), Brazil, and the "friendly little nation." Red China may be working on them, but is just at the beginning.,br> The first weapons were actually longitudinal EM wave interferometers, which were originally christened "scalar" EM weapons.

Several nations now have those, and the French government almost certainly developed that kind of weapons after the demise of the Priore project. Some physicists in the French government must have realized that plasmas - such as were being used in the Priore tube - could also transduce input transverse EM waves into longitudinal EM waves. So they started with that, and would have logically progressed to the LW interferometry.

The KGB did not get its QP weapons developed and deployed until the beginning of 1990, although a lab QP prototype hurriedly put together is almost certainly what was tested against the U.S. air attack on Libya in 1986.

So the other nations, other than those three mentioned, have longitudinal EM wave interferometers.
The QP weapons have been highly reserved by the Russians. However, the complete extent of their capabilities is still being figured out.

It's all exposed and explained right here, along with all the free “Energy from the Vacuum” the government has known about for years, but has kept suppressed in order to keep big oil and greedy electric companie's pockets (and theirs of course) flush with money.

SmileyCentral.com

37 posted on 05/30/2007 1:38:24 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: alloysteel
Personally, I am holding out for dilithum power.

Not me. I want the starship engines the size of walnuts.

38 posted on 05/30/2007 1:42:06 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
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Would be a miracle, but I’m afraid we’re not going to see it when we need it.


39 posted on 05/30/2007 1:44:03 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson)
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To: Nathan Zachary
It's all exposed and explained right here, along with all the free “Energy from the Vacuum” the government has known about for years, but has kept suppressed

So have you built one to power your own home? Why not?

Or raise a little cash and build a demonstration electrical plant. If you pay nothing for fuel and produce salable amounts of electricity, you shouldn't have any trouble turning a profit. And think of the carbon credits you'd get!

I'm curious. How has the government suppressed this? It's right there on the website. Since I looked at it, will I now have guys in black suits following me around?

40 posted on 05/30/2007 1:44:44 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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