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  1. Re:Alas by SEWilco · · Score: 2 · on Combining New/Old Approaches for Nuclear Fusion
    Yes, trapping the heat is exactly it. But a lot smaller than a Kansas cavern wrapped in strong layers.

    In July, Sandia explained this same liquified fusion reactor module design on this web page. Includes diagrams and details of this interesting bit of engineering.

    There is a summary of where we are with pulsed power engineering. Notice we're already at the point where we can take apart non-nuclear waste into its components, which allows detoxification and recycling.

    There's other info about the Z-pinch methods elsewhere, if you're interested in nuclear engineering.

  2. Netscape still at 80% for physics [and XML issues] by apsmith · · Score: 1 · on Communicator Is Losing The War.....

    Check out:

    http://ridge.aps.org/APSMITH/osstats/

    -- Netscape's market share among our users has hardly dropped at all. Is it only the corporate side that's dropping it? Then again, it could be because almost 50% of our users aren't on any form of Windows.

    I also don't understand how this article can claim that XML support is critical when MSIE 5's support is very buggy and full of proprietary MS extensions - for example relying heavily on the ID attribute which has no special meaning in XML. If you look at the Word 2000 "XML" output you'll see it's basically bastardized HTML 4.0, full of "html:span's" and "div's" for example. Mozilla's XML support is excellent and much more standards based. If the promise of XML turns into just another proprietary MS format that only renders correctly on MS software, the W3C has lost a major, major battle here.