The Next Big Thing
Been a while since I've posted. If you have read the last humongous post, you will have an idea about fusion, particularly aneutronic fusion, and its potential role in humanity's future at all levels. Well, since my little essay, things have gotten more interesting.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606
This is a link to a Google TechTalk, where Google invites geniuses from various fields to talk about the latest stuff to other geniuses at Google. This one is given by Dr. Robert Bussard (former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy, former head of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the guy who invented the Bussard Ramjet), who speaks of a clandestine project he worked on at the Dept. of Defense. What he was working on was a aneutronic fusion reactor for the Navy. When his project was cut by the Congress due to budget shortfalls (Iraq), he and his team had just achieved success, and now it is looking for investors in the private sector to perfect and commercialize the technology.
This is big. A few million dollars on investment could make it happen. A few million dollars is pocket change to Google, who is rapidly becoming one of the biggest energy customers in the US. (Think of all those data centers they are building near powerplants.) They certainly would have the motivation.
Speaking of a few million dollars changing the world, here is another link.
http://focusfusion.org/log/index.php/site/article/lpp_announces_first_focus_fusion_licensing_agreement/
The guys who I mentioned in my previous post just signed an agreement to license focus fusion technology to a joint in Sweden. They are getting a big first installment, and $10 million in total, which basically gives them all the money they need for their research budget. This means that focus fusion will have its day in the sun, assuming that all goes well. If Bussard doesn't beat them first.
I don't really care who wins (perhaps they both will). I just want it to happen.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606
This is a link to a Google TechTalk, where Google invites geniuses from various fields to talk about the latest stuff to other geniuses at Google. This one is given by Dr. Robert Bussard (former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy, former head of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the guy who invented the Bussard Ramjet), who speaks of a clandestine project he worked on at the Dept. of Defense. What he was working on was a aneutronic fusion reactor for the Navy. When his project was cut by the Congress due to budget shortfalls (Iraq), he and his team had just achieved success, and now it is looking for investors in the private sector to perfect and commercialize the technology.
This is big. A few million dollars on investment could make it happen. A few million dollars is pocket change to Google, who is rapidly becoming one of the biggest energy customers in the US. (Think of all those data centers they are building near powerplants.) They certainly would have the motivation.
Speaking of a few million dollars changing the world, here is another link.
http://focusfusion.org/log/index.php/site/article/lpp_announces_first_focus_fusion_licensing_agreement/
The guys who I mentioned in my previous post just signed an agreement to license focus fusion technology to a joint in Sweden. They are getting a big first installment, and $10 million in total, which basically gives them all the money they need for their research budget. This means that focus fusion will have its day in the sun, assuming that all goes well. If Bussard doesn't beat them first.
I don't really care who wins (perhaps they both will). I just want it to happen.
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