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Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the race-for-the-power-finish-line dept.

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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  1. Re:Exactly the right approach. by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus, the chances of me getting a backer for my "buttered toast and cat" turbine are much improved. Fantastic. Don't even try, PETA will shut you down before you can get any serious headway. That's what happened with MIT's monkey-weasel-mulberry bush bomb.
  2. Ford Focus Fusion by chdig · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds interesting, but I wish they'd named it after something other than a couple of Ford car models. Ford Fusion, Ford Focus, Focus Fusion?

    If they'd wanted credibility, they shoulda gone for something like the Yaris Matrix or maybe the Fit Element.

  3. Re:Electric universe by Hope+Thelps · · Score: 5, Funny

    Translation: We have a pile of bullshit we're trying to sell, so we'll log into Slashdot as AC's and try a little astroturfing. An as agent of the shill consortium I can confirm that this is exactly right. Yesterday we got our check for $600 million. We considered running the experiment. We considered instead using the cash to lobby big business and government. We considered spending it on a big party. Then we realised that all the big players with REAL influence are on Slashdot. So we hired an army of shills to spread the message with their evil talk of "mainstream science". But with your keen insight you saw straight through us. Foiled again :(
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  4. Re:Electric universe by glittalogik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd pay Gene Ray $750k to take a web design course.