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A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion
ewsnow writes "The Focus Fusion Society reports that the scientists and engineers at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics have finally built an operational Dense Plasma Focus device. While still at less than half power, they were able to achieve a pinch on their device. The small company that Eric Lerner started recently gathered enough funding to start a two-year study on the validity of his theory regarding fusion-inducing plasmoids. If the theory holds, the device will produce more electricity than it consumes. In contrast to the billions of dollars spent on Tokamak fusion (think ITER), LPP is conducting their research on a budget around a million dollars. Yet, if it works, it will provide nuclear fusion with much simpler equipment and much less cost. Eric Lerner and Focus Fusion have been discussed on Slashdot before."
You keep using that word. I don't know it means what you think it means. Theories don't "hold". Theories are verified and verifiable explanations of the behaviour of natural processes. If you have a plausible explanation that you still need to validate either by physical observations or by logical deductions then what you have is an hypothesis. Come on, the words have very specifically defined meanings. Please don't add to the confusion.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
Where we're going, we don't need roads ...
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Wow, some mod has no sense of humor. Well, I laughed, anyway XD
Don't demean yourself by reaffirming his assertion that we are animals. You can't both be an animal and not be an animal at the same time, and there are clearly traits which seperate [sic] us from them.
You fail at biology. An animal is defined as a multicellular eucaryotic organism - and you are one. There might be traits which separate you from a baboon, but there are a lot more traits which separate the baboon from an earthworm...