Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-02-01 Thread Edmund Storms
His statement is designed to reduce fears about its production during application of LENR. If creation of tritium were the goal, this rate could be easily increased. Ed Storms On Feb 1, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote: From: "Edmund Storms" Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:47:38 PM

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-02-01 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: "Edmund Storms" Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:47:38 PM > Actually Alan, this is a good idea. Tom Claytor has been slowly mastering > production of tritium using cold fusion to the point where this might be a > practical source. But as you point out, the excess energy would be a probl

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-02-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > MILLIONS of cancer -sufferers have been given fresh hope of a cure > after ground-breaking research. . . . > > The discovery by an Israeli specialist was last night hailed as > "radical and potentially life-changing". > > In a world first, Professor Aaron Avivi and his tea

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Terry Blanton
EXCLUSIVE: A cure for ALL cancers is on the way as scientists make major breakthrough MILLIONS of cancer -sufferers have been given fresh hope of a cure after ground-breaking research. By: Giles Sheldrick Published: Thu, January 16, 2014 The breakthrough came in a 16-year study of the only -anim

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Edmund Storms
Actually Alan, this is a good idea. Tom Claytor has been slowly mastering production of tritium using cold fusion to the point where this might be a practical source. But as you point out, the excess energy would be a problem. :-) Ed Storms On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote:

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Alan Fletcher
Maybe someone could re-target a suitably-tuned LENR system as an online Tritium-generator and get some of those hot-fusion funds. Of course, it would need an expensive cooling system to get rid of the excess heat. Just kidding, of course.

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Axil Axil
The General fusion design is close to sonofusion. They setup a shock wave in liquid lead to compress some hydrogen (D and T) in the center of the liquid lead sphere. They should use a heavy iconic liquid and cavatate it to produce the shock wave. We know that this works to produce fusion; but this

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs wrote: You could level the same charge of trying for years and spending billions > of dollars against the search for a cure for cancer. Given that progress in > this field could be described as moderate at best would you also say > "enough"? > Yes, I would reform and refocus cancer re

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Edmund Storms
Yes indeed, we can find many examples of the same disfunction operating. The difference is, cancer can be cured. Hot fusion can not be made practical. Cancer suffers from the same factors that cause LENR to be rejected and hot fusion to be supported. As long as cancer remains uncured, a l

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread James Bowery
Has anyone even _tried_ to come up with objective criteria milestones for cancer research? Its not like you can just sit back and think these things up off the top of your head. I came up with the criteria for the fusion prizes by going around to all of the proponents of alternative fusion techno

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
You could level the same charge of trying for years and spending billions of dollars against the search for a cure for cancer. Given that progress in this field could be described as moderate at best would you also say "enough"? [m] On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: > Blaze

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread James Bowery
What's even more disgraceful is that a founder of the Tokamak program came out in support of prize awards for achievement of objective criteria: http://www.oocities.org/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html That legislation called only for $100M per milestone. Imagine if the $70B that has been sunk int

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
Yes, it's a disgrace to see the lack of investment in LENR. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: > Blaze, they tried for 70 years and have spent tens of billion of dollars. > We are not even close to a working generator. At what point do we say > enough - please try something e

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Edmund Storms
Blaze, they tried for 70 years and have spent tens of billion of dollars. We are not even close to a working generator. At what point do we say enough - please try something else. Why not take a look at cold fusion for a change? Instead, they keep exploring different variations of hot fusio

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
I don't get it. Why whinge like that? I think it's great they are trying. Let them take their best shot. Better than investing billions of dollars in SnapChat. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: > This claim suffers from the same limitations that haunt laser fusion and >

Re: [Vo]:General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference

2014-01-31 Thread Edmund Storms
This claim suffers from the same limitations that haunt laser fusion and magnetic bubble fusion (ITER). Insufficient tritium can made by the fusion reactor so that tritium must come from another source, which adds greatly to the cost. In addition, the process generates significant radiation