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Bussard Gets Navy Funding For Fusion Research

Posted by kdawson on from the only-2-mil-but-hey dept.

UnreasonableMan writes to let us know that Robert Bussard, the fusion researcher whose talk at Google was discussed here a few months back, has won continued funding from the Navy. The word on this spread from Kent Brewster at the Speculations blog, who reportedly had the word from Bussard himself. (The link is to another blog that reproduces Brewster's post, because Speculations has no permalink.)

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  1. Re: See the device in action by Black+Parrot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I can't believe the gov't doesn't just immediately fund the full-scale reactor, given the fossil fuel crisis we're currently stuck in. 200 million dollars is a handful of days in Iraq, and we could immediately drive the price of oil down to 10 dollars a barrel with fusion as a reliable commercial power source. Why would our government want to do that?

    What's going to happen to Cheney's cronies' lucrative oil distribution contracts when the price goes down to $10/barrel? And when everyone is using less of it as well?
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  2. Re:See the device in action by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't believe they can produce cheap nuclear power and control election losses. This guy is Bush's dream come true.

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  3. Re:Trolls like to compare Apples to oranges by DrSkwid · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Both Apple's OSX (and all BSDs) and all flavours of GNU/Linux are comparable to a big dog turd, dried out in the sun. OSX has a lolly stick in it.

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  4. Is this the same Bussard... by Tokimasa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...that the Bussard Collectors in Star Trek are named for? And is this technology the same concept?

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