[Conservative Vermont Vet]

I'm almost 65 and though I have no plans on leaving all you nice Freepers any time soon, I'm giving 10 - 1 odds that I won't see this reserve (and more than Anwar or deposits off the East Coast)developed to full capacity, in my lifetime.

The green-weenie-Socialist-Enviro-Nuts, who are hell-bent on seeing us revert back to the stone age, will keep this tied up in courts for the next 20 - 30 years.

[RightWhale]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1573450.stm

Fusion power is “within reach”, according to atomic scientists in the UK.

“I believe that if our experiments are successful, and they are promising, we could be designing the forerunner of the first commercial fusion reactor,” said UKAEA’s Dr Alan Sykes, as he showed BBC News Online around his laboratory at Culham, near Oxford.

Called Mast (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak), the new equipment could be the design breakthrough needed to make fusion power a reality - at long last.

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This is the way to go.

Or was, Oct 2001, BBC

Haven’t heard much lately