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Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-with-government-spending dept.

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.

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  1. Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads ... by notpaul · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA:

    "The Dense Plasma Focus device is roughly the size of a coffee can."

    Size of a *coffee* can ... hmmm ... coffee ... coffee-makers ... *Mister* Coffee ...

    MR. FUSION!

    Yes! FINALLY!

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    See you space cowboy ...
  2. Skeptical.... by Duncan3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheap, no long term radiation, efficient direct to electricity, sounds like everything we've ever dreamed of...

    And yet... not assasinated by the oil industry...

    So it must not actually work. Q.E.D.

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    - Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
  3. I'm suspicious by evil+agent · · Score: 4, Funny
    As for possible accidents with the reactor, there is "not really anything that could go wrong," and, because of the way the reaction stops immediately, "there is [no possibility] for runaway." Lerner affirms, "It's 100% safe."

    Sounds like something Mr. Burns would say.

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    End transmission.
  4. Re:Of Plasmaks and Prizes by Sparr0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    calling "whack jobs" people who have done real work

    no one ever called you a person who has done real work.