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British Researchers Say Fusion Is Close
sh00z writes: "The article quotes a leading scientist saying that Fusion power is 'within reach' in the next decade, with commercial plants to follow within another 10 or so years. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone at Texas A&M. They might just jump the starting gun again."
The way the law is going, I can see a "DCMA for the energy industry" whereby fusion would be made illegal. It's a shame the article doesn't have more details on the MAST system they are building....the only details were "it's like JET but smaller".
Speaking of having one's head in the sand, you might consider that the terrorist attacks, if indeed from the Middle East, are directly related to the policies of the USA in that region (for good or ill). And our influence there is, in turn, directly related to our dependance on the natural resources --in the form of oil-- found there.
I can think of little more relevant to our search for a resolution to violence than for us to find a renewable and inexpensive source of energy. After all, ultimately, these issues result not from religion or ideology, but struggles over resources.
Haha... you must've had to stop stroking your dad off to think of that one.
My karma is -1 because I don't use AC posting. LOL.
AC, you haven't been paying attention.
This killing thing is nothing new. It has been happening all the time. The only difference is that it happened inside the U.S. this time, after many, many years of Arabs saying they would retaliate.
It was a well-planned attack, with very well-written training manuals. Who trained Osama bin Laden? The CIA. See the 1998 MSNBC article, "Bin Laden comes home to roost" linked in the second line of What should be the Response to Violence?
The U.S. government killed an estimated 2,100,000 people in Vietnam and an estimated 150,000 people in Iraq. The U.S. has bombed 14 countries in 30 years, killing a roughly estimated 3,000,000 people. None of the people who were killed in any way directly threatened the U.S. These people had mothers and fathers, wives and families and friends.
The U.S. is the world's largest weapons dealer. The U.S. sells weapons to both the Israelis and the Arabs.
Did you know that both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have run oil businesses? Did you know that oil companies want to build a pipeline across Afghanistan? Do a search for the word "route". This is an official oil company document.
AC, you are being manipulated. I'm guessing you don't think that only American lives are valuable.
Bush's education improvements were
Most of the Vietnamese were poor farmers. They had no money. The average yearly income in Vietnam NOW is less than $300 per year.
Sure, maybe some of them shook their fists while standing in the rice paddies. That hardly qualifies as threatening the United States. Some of them had guns. They threatened other Vietnamese. They did not threaten the United States.
If there were 10,000 Vietnamese who actually had the money to threaten the U.S., and they actually wanted to do so, then the number of people who were killed who did not threaten the U.S. should be reduced to 1,990,000 people. That doesn't change the main point. The U.S. government killed people for no reason then, and has continued to kill and to cause conditions that bring about death. Yes, there is always a "reason". The question is, can the U.S. find some way to live in the world without killing?
Bush's education improvements were
You fucking cocksucker, the USA bombed Japan near the end of a worldwide WAR, causing their submission and possibly saving many, many lives which would have been lost had the war continued... not during fucking peacetime.
Fuck you, you anti-American asshole.
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2. The same three or four people wrote each of those articles!
3. They also wrote for "Infinite Energy Magazine" http://www.mv.com/ipusers/zeropoint/IEHTML/BACKIS
It is obvious this is still fringe science.
Don't act like it's not.
-Ben
How could the parent post be offtopic? It's about fusion and it's direct impact on our society. What the bloody hell is wrong with you people? I can't wait to smack your little hands in metamod.