[Pontiac]

Bump for later

[bruinbirdman]

"So there you have it. At a cost of a few millions and about two more years of research or less we will know if we can use this method to power our civilization for the next billion years. And not just an Earth civilization. A multi-planet civilization. Exciting times."

"If it works."

yitbos

[ClearCase_guy]

If the US government is going to toss around trillions of dollars, then I think tossing a few hundred billion at Fusion would seem to make as much sense as anything else.

[xcamel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04O8WjtLnxg

[hershey]

It won’t free us from the maniacal grip of the lunatics in the Middle East. PC Liberals will make sure Muslims get a big cut or total control. The alternative, that Arabs pound sand and have nothing to sell but rugs, is unthinkable.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.

[ShadowAce]

[SC DOC]

While watching a presentation on this fusion technique, I ran across another absolutely fascinating energy discussion on the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, which is a fission reactor that was developed at Oak Ridge National Labs in the 50's, but never caught on commercially. It has many advantages over conventional nuclear power plants, including cost, safety, size, availability of fuel, minimal nuclear waste, etc.

[sionnsar]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking by Charles Seife

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[Straight Vermonter]

Ping

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[Kevmo]

Speaking of predictions about Fusion...

Check out the contract at Intrade for Cold Fusion. I’m putting my money where my mouth is and have bid 500 contracts at $5.50, so if anyone thinks I’m a fool they can make a bunch of money from me. Just buy the contracts.

Dr Yoshiaki Arata’s Cold Fusion Experiment

ARATA.COLD.FUSION.DEC09
Dr Arata’s experiment to be replicated in peer-reviewed scientific journal on/before 31 Dec 2009 M Trade

Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
5.5 98.5 23.0 139 0

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=615448&z=1243606969756

The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266921/posts
Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:50:26 PM · by Kevmo · 76 replies · 854+ views
Suppressed Science.Net ^ | 12/06/08 | http://www.suppressedscience.net/

The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM · by Kevmo · 69 replies · 926+ views
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts

[Malsua]

I’ve been watching the Polywell since Bussard’s Google presentation. It’s very promising, unlike the Tokamak.