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Do YOU have thermometer readings going back a half million years? Yes I do. It's not your classical thermometer, but... anyway - here are my readings. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_isotope.html You have what everyone else has -- a proxy. Regardless of the "thermome...

It this effort of Dr. Bussard works out (or one of the other three or four I've heard of) what sort of economic turmoil do you expect. I just thought of another implication - the SUV will rule! Detroit loves big cars because that's where the profit margin is greatest. The market loves big cars beca...

You disparage the whole field based on nothing but the garbage spoon-fed you by right-wing nut jobs who tried for years to avoid taking responsibility for the damage we're doing, Joe, I agree with you 100%, but throwing out the line "right-wing nut jobs" does about as much good as MSimon disparagin...

If we can use the process for fuel it will still require a 20 yr. roll out. Sadly I agree with you. I don't doubt that the engineers and venture capitalists could gear up in under a decade but the special interest lobbyists from a very broad spectrum would be fighting like hell. I suspect that ther...

Suppose all of the polywell fusion experiments work out exactly as hoped for, and that in 7 years we have fully functioning, safe reactors... I've been contemplating this question for a few days now. I like to consider myself a "rational capitalist" who is wary of over-much government involvement i...

like that this VC guy recognizes corn ethanol as a "scam". Trying to farm our way out of our energy problems is like welding a wind generator onto the roof of your car. Farming is energy 'load', and I doubt there is a single corn farmer in Iowa whom doesn't recognize this, yet this seems to be the ...

I suspect that if the BFRs prove out, then the discussion of any type of ethanol production is moot. Ethanol production is designed to offset petro-products in the transportation sector. With inexpensive energy, the drivers for this offset are reduced. ... If electricity is inexpensive, the marketp...

Another perhaps more useful way of looking at the gain is 5 gallons of ethanol produced per gallon of gasoline expended in growing it (this ignores total energy for things like fertilizer, which will have non-petroleum inputs, but since you're probably willing to trade cheaper coal energy for preci...

What do you think the initial responses would be to the announcement of a working Polywell reactor? From: 1. Governments 2. Corporations 3. NGOs Joining late is better than not joining at all. :) Here's a picture I ran across recently that shows where BFRs (I like that acronym) would have the great...