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
lot of people will continue to make a lot of money. As long as LENR
remain unused, a lot of people will continue to make a lot of money.
Self interest drives the system. Ignorance drives the individual. We
individuals are helpless unless our combined self-interest is
expressed more forcibly.
Ed Storms
On Jan 31, 2014, at 2:03 PM, 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"?
[m]
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Edmund Storms
<stor...@ix.netcom.com> 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 else. Why not take a look at
cold fusion for a change? Instead, they keep exploring different
variations of hot fusion, all of which have the same basic problems.
Remember what Einstein said about insanity.
Ed Storms
On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote:
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 <stor...@ix.netcom.com
> wrote:
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 and radioactive products that must
be shielded, thereby limiting its use to large installations. Also,
the device would be more difficult to service than is a nuclear
reactor, as ITER has discovered. This method to cause fusion has so
many limitations, a rational person asks why is money still being
wasted? This question is even more important now that cold fusion
has demonstrated a commercial generator having more plausibility
than what is being shown to be the case using hot fusion. At what
point does rational thinking take over from the bad habits of the
past?
Ed Storms
On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote:
January 31, 2014
General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference
Chief Scientist to highlight progress on much-anticipated fusion
energy
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 31, 2014) - When
TED, the world's primary idea exchange, moves to its new home in
Vancouver this year, the city and indeed Canada will be well
represented when General Fusion founder and Chief Scientist Dr.
Michel Laberge takes the stage.
A plasma physicist with an entrepreneurial streak, Dr. Laberge
started General Fusion in 2002 in an abandoned gas station outside
Vancouver and has helped it grow into a pioneering force in the
development of fusion technology.
Dr. Laberge takes the TED stage on March 18, 2014 to talk about the
exciting progress in the development of fusion energy - the process
that emulates the power of the sun and creates a clean, safe,
sustainable energy source for the world.
He will discuss fusion technologies around the world and focus on
the breakthrough vision that drives General Fusion. The technology,
called Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF), could lead to the fastest
and most economical route to a commercial application for fusion
energy.
General Fusion has become a world leader on MTF and Dr. Laberge is
uniquely positioned to tell the story of its contribution to fusion
innovation, and how scientists around the world are closer than
ever to making fusion clean energy a reality.
TED takes place in Vancouver from March 17-21, 2014.
About General Fusion Inc.: General Fusion is developing the
fastest, most practical, and lowest cost path to commercial fusion
energy. Established in 2002, the company and its 60 employees are
supported by a global syndicate of leading energy venture capital
funds, industry leaders, and technology pioneers, including:
Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Cenovus Energy
and Sustainable Development Technology Canada.
About fusion energy: Fusion energy holds immense promise as a
clean, safe and abundant energy source. Fusion generates neither
pollution nor greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Fusion
energy is fueled by deuterium and tritium isotopes, which are
easily extracted from seawater and derived from lithium, in
abundant supply. There is enough fusion fuel to power the planet
for hundreds of millions of years. Unlike nuclear fission reactors,
fusion energy does not require uranium as fuel, cannot suffer from
meltdowns and does not produce long-lived radioactive wastes.
