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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. Re:Of Plasmaks and Prizes by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Diving into the system the way I did -- giving it the the benefit of the doubt -- and coming to conclusions deserves a bit more respect than someone sitting around behind a semi-anonymous persona and a keyboard calling "whack jobs" people who have done real work.

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    Seastead this.
  2. Congressman Packard by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Congressman Packard did. There have been a few others. :)

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    Seastead this.