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- Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:10 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: TELL ME NOOOW!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23261
The SDI's dual use, if done properly, would have been to catalyze our breakout into space. When that comes, it will be as much of a game changer as practical fusion. Speaking of breakouts into space, I'll note that United Space Alliance and ATK are squabbling like kids over the Ares I launcher, eff...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: TELL ME NOOOW!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23261
I have heard something directly from Rick recently. The people putting up the money will make an announcement when they are ready to make one. I hope that helps. Sounds to me like this could be getting held as an "October Surprise" for election purposes. No better way to get global headline attenti...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:28 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: TELL ME NOOOW!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23261
Re: reason for the delay
There can be more than a “government” coverup. Funders may not wish to go public. Tri-alpha have been totally non-communicative after they get funded. I think even the navy realizes that commercial exploitation of this is more important to national security than keeping it secret to power some subs...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:11 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 93643
Well Obama is anti-nuclear-anything, so its a waste of time to try there, the political left is almost unanimously against any kind of nuclear power (other than the few intelligent greens who have admitted nuke is the only solution to saving the environment). Oh, come on. I hate our tendencies to a...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Article: 60% of oil price is speculation
- Replies: 150
- Views: 83825
>>> Market forces are driven by people who freely choose to spend their money as they see fit. Sometimes these people do foolish things in excersizing their freedom to wastefully burn fossil fuels, but the market will punish them eventually and Nature will put things right. <<< Ah, if only that wer...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Spaceship could fly faster than light
- Replies: 69
- Views: 41747
[q I understand now, your basing which theory would provide the best path to FTL in the shortest time, if proven correct. Personally I don't believe their is a an easy way to do FTL. For example, the 60 Tesla magnetic fields needed to negate gravity, or possibly push a spacecraft into "Hyperspace"....
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: T. Boone Pickens
- Replies: 31
- Views: 32498
I've had some contact with Mr. Pickens in the past. In the mid 80s, Phillips Petroleum was making some investments in fusion. Mr. Pickens, who is a corporate raider, decided that they had two much cash on hand and that their assets were larger than their stock price. Consequently, he tried to make ...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:15 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ITER Costs Double
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18787
I agree with leaving most competitive things to the market. But the market is short-sighted and sometimes government must regulate externalities. Maybe carbon credits will work and push market forces towards cleaner fuels. But I think its often the case that from the point of view of a capital inte...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ITER Costs Double
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18787
- It is not the cost over-runs per se. No large project I ever heard of actually sticked to its budget, everyone knows that costs are deliberately underestimated in early phases, so as to, say, facilitate the decision-making process. I know a number of projects that have stuck to budget. Generally ...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:58 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 93643
Does this mean that a small contract using WB-7 equipment with maybe new and bigger power supplies is the minimum required to prove p-B11 fusion? If so, then that is obviously the next step to take, in my world view. But at some point we need to quit stringing this out serially and take some resear...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:18 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 93643
Consequently, we are going through the peer review process. That's the right way to do things. Couldn't agree more. A lot of people regard all fusion projects as a boondoggle, which isn't unreasonable considering the track record. I wrote my Congressperson a while back, but basically just asked the...
- Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:48 am
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: 3d Virtual World Facility for Education and Outreach
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5595
3d Virtual World Facility for Education and Outreach
Hi everybody, I run a virtual land business in the virtual world of Second Life and I have a big interest in polywell fusion. I've been building 3d models of polywell fusors and such and would like to offer to the members here to help build a facility for educating the public via this 3d medium abou...