Posted on 10/26/2006 11:15:01 AM PDT by wouldntbprudent
Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics -- the creation of controlled fusion energy -- is still decades away.
But thanks to research done recently on a smaller, less grandiose scale at the Nevada Terawatt Facility at the University of Nevada, Reno and in the University's College of Science, an important step has been made in the understanding of some fundamental processes required to achieve fusion energy.
And it all came thanks to work done on the shoulders of Z-pinches that are more "midget" in stature than the "giant" lasers at national laboratories that can generate up to 40 trillion watts of x-ray power.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
What? Fusion decades away? That can't be because it was only 20 years away back in the 70's.
Not a physics problem, but one of technology and economics.
Just like the population explosion was only 20 years away, and it was only 20 years until we had a new ice age, then 20 years until global warming melted the polar ice caps, . . .
Eh. I don't know about decades. I've heard good things are coming out of the Z-machine.
Now this kind of thing should get top priority funding. Once we get fusion energy, we can kiss the Arabs and their oil goodbye forever.
We have fission reactors. We should be kissing the arabs and their oil goodbye forever.
Yet ANOTHER another step?!
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We have fission reactors. We should be kissing the arabs and their oil goodbye forever.
But not a single one that will fit in your car.
I thought they would fit in a suitcase and were stolen from Russia?
It's delayed because resources were allocated to flying car production.
Can you imagine a pile up on I 90 in the fog.
Lets deliver several terawatt fusion devices to Iran.
That should make the give up uranium enrichment.
Shhh! You don't want to give the Rats any ideas.
Think of the technology The Sinkmeister already provided to North Korea and the Chicoms. I'm sure they would conclude that if they only gave fusion devices to yabba-dabbba-do, the mullahs would play nice.
There are plenty of other ways of storing energy in a car.
I'm thinking of a device that would release several thousand terrawatts in a billionth of a second or less.
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