Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded

pln2bz writes "Eric Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, has received $600k in funding, and a promise of phased payments of $10 million if scientific feasibility can be demonstrated to productize Lerner's focus fusion energy production device. Unlike the Tokamak, focus fusion does not require the plasma to be stable, does not produce significant amounts of dangerous radiation, directly injects electrons into the power grid without the need for turbines and would only cost around $300k to manufacture a generator. Lerner's inspiration for the technology is based upon an interpretation for astrophysical Herbig-Haro jets that agrees with the Electric Universe explanation."

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Re:Electric universe

[c6gunner]

Pardon? How did this get into a discussion of evolution? I certainly wasn't talking about it. I was talking about alternative theories of physics.

Gotcha. Your comment was poorly worded. You complained about people belittling religion, then said "heaven forbid that any part of a well-established theory be called into question", and followed that up by assuring me that you were an ID'er. Since your comment didn't even mention physics, I naturally assumed you were referring to evolution and ID.

I was talking about your license to belittle and offend ("God's Gargantuan Fart, and that interstellar space is composed of His Holy Flatulence").

Awww, muffin. Did I huwt youw wee wiffle feewings?

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to allow your touchiness to censor my speech. Otherwise next thing you know the Muslims will be threatening to kill me for drawing pictures of their prophet, and the Scientologists will be suing me for making fun of Tom Cruise.

You guys (yeah, generalizing here) are really fixated on ID, aren't you? Why is that?

It's an easy example of human foolishness.

Any other questions?

Re:Electric universe

[arminw]

...states that owing to the gravitational effects we observe in the universe there must be a lot of matter we can't measure...

That is exactly right. IF, and that's the rub, if gravity is assumed to be the ONLY force involved. However if cosmologists were WILLING to consider that the 10^36 times stronger electrical force might ALSO play a role, then the need for any mysterious dark of anything evaporates.

However, as soon as it is admitted that electricity also plays a role in the operation of the large scale cosmos, many other parts of currently accepted dogma fall like dominoes. Negating a lifetime of work and all existing gravity only computer models and purely mathematically based theories will be and is being strenuously resisted by big government funded establishment science.

Re:Electric universe

[arminw]

...Dark mater is an experimental observation...

That statement is utter and complete BS and an outright baldfaced lie. Dark matter and energy are mathematical constructs needed by the faulty assumption that ONLY gravity governs the large scale universe at cosmic distances. Nobody has experimentally observed either dark matter nor dark energy. If these were observed, they would no longer be labeled "dark".