Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor 266
Sterling D. Allan writes to tell us OpenSourceEnergy is reporting on a "far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to hot fusion". Inventor Eric Lerner's focus fusion process uses hydrogen and boron to combine into helium which gives off tremendous energy with a very small material requirement. Lerner's project apparently only requires a few million in capital investment which is a far cry from the $10 billion being spent on the Tokamak fusion project.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads ... (Score:5, Funny)
"The Dense Plasma Focus device is roughly the size of a coffee can."
Size of a *coffee* can
MR. FUSION!
Yes! FINALLY!
Skeptical.... (Score:5, Funny)
And yet... not assasinated by the oil industry...
So it must not actually work. Q.E.D.
I'm suspicious (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like something Mr. Burns would say.
Byproduct is Helium. Hmmmmm (Score:0, Funny)
I want one of these in my car so I can suck the exhaust fumes and talk like Mickey Mouse.
Wow. They'll save the earth. (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad NASA's funding funding for him dried up. What do they know about physics, any way?
Send in the Clowns! (Score:3, Funny)
I recall when Cold Fusion was actually considered a possibility for essentially limitless clean energy that a bunch of environmentalist clowns arrived on the scene proclaiming that cheap clean energy would be the worst thing that could possibly happen. That, my Gawd, with cheap clean energy we would just end up with more people using up even more of the planet even faster. While my memory may have faded over time, a prominent name I believe was at the forefront of these claims at the time was Jeremy Rifkin.
I certainly expect their reappearance any time now.
Re:Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads .. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Of Plasmaks and Prizes (Score:5, Funny)
no one ever called you a person who has done real work.