Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded 367
pln2bz writes "Eric Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, has received $600k in funding, and a promise of phased payments of $10 million if scientific feasibility can be demonstrated to productize Lerner's focus fusion energy production device. Unlike the Tokamak, focus fusion does not require the plasma to be stable, does not produce significant amounts of dangerous radiation, directly injects electrons into the power grid without the need for turbines and would only cost around $300k to manufacture a generator. Lerner's inspiration for the technology is based upon an interpretation for astrophysical Herbig-Haro jets that agrees with the Electric Universe explanation."
New page 1 (Score:5, Funny)
Magneto? (Score:3, Funny)
Developmental Stages. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exactly the right approach. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Exactly the right approach. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Electric universe (Score:2, Funny)
Here's a tip, you stupid shill, using the term "mainstream science" is a dead giveaway that you're a liar and/or a kook.
Re:Exactly the right approach. (Score:2, Funny)
when will they stop (Score:2, Funny)
remember kids, if you stop using oil the terrorists win.
Re:Electric universe (Score:5, Funny)
In related news, $750,000 has been awarded to Gene Ray to create a source of renewable energy based on his "Time Cube" concept, and $1.5 million for research into improved fission reactor designs has been awarded to Ludwig Hansen, a.k.a. Archimedes Plutonium.
Ford Focus Fusion (Score:5, Funny)
If they'd wanted credibility, they shoulda gone for something like the Yaris Matrix or maybe the Fit Element.
Re:Electric universe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exactly the right approach. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Electric universe (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the gay bomb was a good use of our tax money. Not just good... I'd go so far as to call it fabulous.
But seriously, I disagree with the logic here: justifying an idiotic use of money (crazy-ass fringe science research into fusion) by pointing to a more idiotic use of money (gay bombs). It's like arguing, "I'm gonna burn twenty-dollar bills. Why? Because it's far less wasteful than burning hundred-dollar bills."
Re: Exactly the right approach. (Score:3, Funny)
Is this even LEGAL? (Score:3, Funny)
licensing to curb proliferation, taxation of manufacture, sale, possession and operation thereof
and the mandated remote control and monitoring of the device by the government.
There are also further ramifications to having 5MW or more of electrical power in the hands of an
individual. It could be used as a weapon or it could power improper research. The implications
of this device for our control paradigm get worse and worser as devices like that would see use
in developing countries where the control grid is still loosely meshed. Also it would serve to
empower the projects of rogue elites to defy us.
This is definitely not the kind of development our New World needs to see. This technology runs
counter to all our efforts to build a network of interdependence.
Re:not really new but it's interesting (Score:3, Funny)
evaluation (Score:3, Funny)
[ ] Yes!
[X] No!
If Yes, congratulations, you have made a valid contribution to society!
If No, fuck off, this has no bearing on real life. Get a haircut and a job, hippie.
My research project (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Electric universe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nonsense (Score:3, Funny)