Yeah, it's all impossible, just Omni magazine BS, right?
Funny. I make my living flying spacecraft. And a few friends of mine work here: Fusion Research at Los Alamos
Call them up and tell them they're all engaging in Brute Force trying to do things that just cain't be done, dontcha know. Maybe you could do it over your Nokia video enabled phone...which may soon be powered by a (gasp) fuel cell (double gasp, followed by shock).
By the way, Oh Seer of the Immortal Market, just what do you think the future of inertial confinement fusion might be? In say, the 30 to 60 year time frame?
Over the last forty years, computing has changed so drastically that it bears little resemblence to what it once was.
What's the difference? Space travel is the domain of bureaucrats. Computing is the domain of entrepreneurs. Space travel is supported by taxes. The computing industry pays the taxes that make space travel possible.
Your friends have been saying fusion was twenty years off for the last fifty years.
By the way, Oh Seer of the Immortal Market, just what do you think the future of inertial confinement fusion might be? In say, the 30 to 60 year time frame?
When your done sniffing your navel and have time to actually read my posts, why don't you tell me?
You have no clue that it is entirely possible for something to be technically possible and economically unfeasible, do you?