Posted on 02/13/2014 1:12:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
But ponder the planet Jupiter whose core is metallic hydrogen.
Wow... and we owe it all to Darwin and the evolutionary scientists. Oh wait...
Now if we can strap 4 wheels on it, we’ll have something less efficient the than Volt...
I joke... cool news.
Only took 60 years to reach this “milestone.”
World wide, I’ll guess that commercial fusion R&D has passed $100 billion, adjusted for inflation.
Perhaps the laser research and magnetic confinement technology will pay off at some point.
But in terms of energy output, I think we might have been in much better shape if we had invested that money in photo voltaic and hydrogen technology instead.
“Omar Hurricane “?? Are Buck Rogers and Dr Zarkoff working there too? And where is Ming the Merciless?
Don’t be silly. Those three are working at Sandia National Laboratory. Omar works with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
“But in terms of energy output, I think we might have been in much better shape if we had invested that money in photo voltaic and hydrogen technology instead.”
Not at all in the long run. Economically practical fusion reactors, whether hot or cold fusion, have the capability of making a greater difference in human technologies and adaptation for survival than the discovery of fire. The economic and practical application of fusion energy production makes possible the desalination and purification of water, virtually perpetual electrical power in abundance, the recycling of garbage by breaking it down to the fundamental elements, revolutionizing the chemical industries, and so much more. No hydrogen powered battery can remotely compare in its beneficial applications. It is just going to require extraordinary innovation, time, nad money to discover how to achieve what is certainly available to the people persistent and innovative enough to discover it.
If its on National Public Radio they must be hoping for a way to heavily regulate it.
I am not impressed.
I you heat something hot enough you get fusion, but it took more energy than it produced.
-——World wide——
Back in the days of Fusion Magazine, the Russians were in a leadership role in fusion research. I wonder if they have any current resources engaged in the fusion effort. I would guess all the old researchers are dead and gone
Actually they didn’t but they took a step in the right direction.
All I had to do was hit it with this flamethrower and...
His brother, Rock You Like A Hurricane, has had more success in the field of weather control at DARPA
Yup, that’s my concern. I’m just not sure we can achieve fusion without the hundreds of billions or trillions of tons of raw materials that stars use.
Fusion, so easy a red dwarf can do it.
Perhaps it’s “look, we NEED to show some results or the money train is over”
But, if true, Cool.
FYI, a much larger facility for fusion research is being built in France, which the US is also contributing to.
One of these days I think we are all of us going to see a huge wall of combustion stretching across the entire horizon heading towards towards us. Just before I’m consumed I hope I have the time to think “Hey, somebody got something to work really well this time...”
No, Breeder reactors would be the preferred transition to await fusion power.
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