If we can't handle nuclear, not sure I trust us to pursue this.

"Experimental for sure…but massive implications if this can be scaled."

Do implications have mass?
j/k

Holy Pons-Fleischman, Batman!

Not Coach Jimbo said:

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If we can't handle nuclear, not sure I trust us to pursue this.

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If you mean fission, the purpose of fusion is that it's cleaner than fission reactors

Not Coach Jimbo said:

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If we can't handle nuclear, not sure I trust us to pursue this.

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Uh, this IS nuclear fusion not to be confused with nuclear fission

I can't make a decision about this until I hear from Greta and Leo.

And maybe Meghan.

ttu_85 said:

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Not Coach Jimbo said:

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If we can't handle nuclear, not sure I trust us to pursue this.

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Uh, this IS nuclear fusion not to be confused with nuclear fission.

Edit: I need to learn to read threads as LIFO

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Anyone have an article without a paywall?

Was Terrence Howard consulted?!

Great Scott!

Were these ideas stolen in luggage?

Same fusion that Dr. Emma Russell was working on?

Wake me up when it actually matters.

C@LAg said:

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Aggie Joke Part 2?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.250.4987.1507

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I worked for Bockris for a season while a student at A&M.

As mentioned above... FleischmannPons was the original issue. I was a student at another institution when that research came out.

IIRC, once they announced their findings, MANY labs around the world announced they were able to reproduce the results. Bockris was one of them.

It is why I have emphasized peer-review with this whole Vaxx thing.

All of these labs that confirmed were trying to get ahead of each other for funding. By declaring they had replicated it, it gave them a head start over others to request funding. LOTs of egg got distributed.

I grew up in Livermore. My dad, and most of my friends' dads, all worked at LLNL (aka "The Lab" to everyone in town). Actually, the program that they're talking about, the National Ignition Facility (NIF), was the last program my dad worked on before he retired in 2002.

The NIF is the successor to the Nova laser fusion program, which was the successor to the Shiva program.

They're been saying that they were within "a generation" of usable fusion power since the 1980s.

Getting more energy out that they put in is a big step, BUT...now you have to figure out how to sustain that reaction and how to harvest that energy and turn it into something that's usable and transmissible. Oh, and how to keep it controlled and contained.

We can already do uncontained fusion reactions that give out more energy that we put in. They're called H-bombs.

And yes, clean, abundant, cheap energy is the Watermelons' Greens' worst nightmare.

This video explains why we are still decades from a viable fusion powerplant

Smeghead4761 said:

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I grew up in Livermore. My dad, and most of my friends' dads, all worked at LLNL (aka "The Lab" to everyone in town). Actually, the program that they're talking about, the National Ignition Facility (NIF), was the last program my dad worked on before he retired in 2002.

The NIF is the successor to the Nova laser fusion program, which was the successor to the Shiva program.

They're been saying that they were within "a generation" of usable fusion power since the 1980s.

Getting more energy out that they put in is a big step, BUT...now you have to figure out how to sustain that reaction and how to harvest that energy and turn it into something that's usable and transmissible. Oh, and how to keep it controlled and contained.

We can already do uncontained fusion reactions that give out more energy that we put in. They're called H-bombs.

And yes, clean, abundant, cheap energy is the Watermelons' Greens' worst nightmare.

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I'll be too cheap to meter.

Did a research paper on this in the 80's….
Gov not interested because can't control. Unlimited cheap power can't control "energy efficiency" and types of appliances using it (gas, oil, solar, thermal, etc) so it ruins narratives and specific production markets.

RWWilson said:

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The Department marketing arm is gearing up for budget season.

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The budget season started 01 October...

You know, Romulans use a quantum singularity as their power source.

Secolobo said:

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Did a research paper on this in the 80's….
Gov not interested because can't control. Unlimited cheap power can't control "energy efficiency" and types of appliances using it (gas, oil, solar, thermal, etc) so it ruins narratives and specific production markets.

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This

It ruins wealth and control so politicians have no interest in it