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by Paul Schatzkin October 1, 2015 What’s wrong with this picture? These Titans of Tech are investing HUNDREDS of millions of dollars on nuclear fusion experiments. Why not invest a few million into the...
View ArticleThe Future’s So Bright…
… we really are going to need shades… Imagine being dropped into the middle of an episode of “The Big Bang Theory.” Then imagine taking LSD. Then imagine that the episode runs for like 12 or 14 hours…...
View ArticleOh Boy, More Tokamaks!
I have been taking exception lately to the notion that “Fusion is the energy of the future and always will be.” For starters, while the line is clever verbiation (don’t bother looking it up, I just...
View ArticleIt’s Not Exactly “Mr. Fusion”
Now, there’s a scale that makes sense (even if it is based on a coffee grinder) There’s been a lot in the cultural firmament this month about the second “Back To The Future” movie – the one where Marty...
View ArticleFusion is SO Hot….
…it’s on the cover of TIME Magazine this week. I discovered last night that the cover story of this coming week’s edition of TIME Magazine (dated Nov 2, 2015) is all about the quest for fusion – which...
View ArticleAnd Now… The New York Times…
. Yeah, I’m sure that’ll work… ..chimes in on the story we’ve been following for a couple of weeks, with it’s own story about Start-Ups Take On Challenge of Nuclear Fusion This is pretty much old...
View ArticleDoug Coulter’s Solar Powered Star In A Jar
It is evident from the license plate of the Chevy Volt parked at the entrance to Doug Coulter’s homestead what gets him up in the morning… and keeps him awake most of the day and night. - – - – - – - –...
View ArticleThe Money Pit Gets Deeper
This is what a $100-billion money pit looks like. No surprise here: The multibillion-dollar ITER fusion project will take another 6 years to build beyond the—now widely discredited—official schedule,...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Fusion Is Always 30 Years Away
I dunno, maybe because most of the money seems to get siphoned off for the biggest, most cumbersome, complex, and costly (the 3-Cs of most fusion research) schemes and machines money can buy (and the...
View ArticleFusioneers In The News
OK, maybe “news” is stretching it a bit, since this story has been in the works since October. But it does appear in the Washington Post, which legend has it is still a ‘news’paper… The image atop...
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