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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."
The public needs to be shown that the word "nuclear" is not cause for panic
True. And it will be easy once the industry demonstrates that it is indeed "not a cause for panic." After all, the reasons the public gets nervous when it hears the words "nuclear" and "power" in the same sentence are related to the checkered history of commercial nuclear power generation.
This ain't rocket surgery.
This does (sometimes) work for animals - but human beings are not animals.
We aren't animals?
I suppose we are all plants, or minerals then?
WTF?
Where did you go to school?
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Judeo-Christian nuclear abortion socialism!
I now await my Fox News story...
Makin' money, makin' friends, makin' whoopee and wearin' Depends
Irrespective of the reasons, these people hate our guts. All the good reasons you cite don't change that. Treating them with political correctness isn't going to make their hatred go away. Am I obligated to be polite to people who would kill me if they could? Not in my book I ain't.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Rel
I object strenuously to any allegation that I'm "hiding my racism and bigotry" behind anything. There are huge populations of people I just don't like, and I see not the slightest reason to hide that fact.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Rel