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Nuclear fusion as future power source

Nuclear fusion as future power sourceok, so the radio waves allow them to control the plasma.. butdoes it allow the fusion reactor to actually produce more energy than it takes to run?Not quite accurateFusion reactors are not emissions free. They produce hard neutron radiation during operation. Some of this can...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Fusion Reactor, fusion reaction, Nuclear Fusion, hydrogen

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Nuclear fusion as future power source

MIT researchers have used their Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor, in operation since 1993, to bring the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality. As you probably know, fusion is the reaction that produces the sun's energy and it has an 'enormous potential for future...

Tags: Plasma, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Fusion, Fusion Reactor, V, Construction, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Additional Resources

Coal: more on the fall-out

Coal: more on the fall-outCoal is not perfect......but right now it is what we have. I used to live down there in SW Colorado, and have seen first hand the effects of living near large coal fired power plants. I used to fish in those lakes, until the...

Tags: breeder

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Fusion: confusion or refusin' ?

Courtesy: ITER, the fusion coalition. Comspiracy freaks are gonna love this. The global consortium that's been promising and planning and spending to get a fusion reactor up and running...well, they're kinda re-thinking the project and scaling back, and maybe cutting way back...and, well, they may just...

Tags: Fusion, Comspiracy Freak, Wiki, Patches, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Fusion, or confusion?

Fusion, or confusion?Fusion could be feasibleThere are a few very steep problems to over come in terrestrial fusion. The biggest I have heard of was creating a field capable of forming a dense sphere of hydrogen. In space gravity over a long period of time causes a mass of hydrogen...

Tags: hydrogen, environmentalist, fusion, fusion reaction

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...

Tags: reactor, micro nuclear reactor, nuclear reactor, garden, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks

Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...

Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste

Discussion threads 2008-08-10

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past

Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the pastResponseJust a few thoughts:No, we cannot drill our way out of the current situation, but we can drill to give us the time to make a switch to other energy sources. Besides, we will still need...

Tags: electrical need, Peak Oil

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubed

Big Day for Big Oil, and Way to Future Profits Seems Well-lubedFusionYes, the sad thing is that the only technology that could solve the energy question forever is getting little attention. In the past few years, the entire world (US, Europe, Japan,...) came up with a mere $15 billion total...

Tags: Investment, OIL PRICES, Nuclear-Fusion, Big Oil, Big Day, Future Profits Seems Well-lubed, oil company, profit margin

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power business

Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessHah. Fat chance.Americans have been programmed to think nuclear radiation is the most toxic material on the planet.RE: Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessOne mention of the words 'Nuclear Power' and everyone freaks out. They immediately link it to nuclear fission, which...

Tags: Toshiba Corp., nuclear-power business, reactor, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious myth

We are seeing the death of nuclear power's precious mythHey there chicken little....>>Oh, and those dependable nuclear plants can't use abundant salt water.the sky is falling... no really... the sky is falling....Wiki "De-desalinization Plants". Plenty of abundant water for Nuclear facilities that way... And nuc energy can supply...

Tags: Jane Fonda Mind-set, precious myth, nuclear energy, Nuclear Plant, nuclear plant

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Nuclear power looks for comeback in U.S.

Nuclear power looks for comeback in U.S.As long as the industry pays for all its costs without government subsidiesI'll consider nuclear power as an option when it is compared to other alternatives without any government subsidies. If it is as safe as it says, then it shouldn't have any...

Tags: nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Science or science fiction: cold fusion getting hotter?

Cold fusion. Science or wishful thinking? Fact or fantasy? A conference at MIT brought together many of the proponents to strut their fusion stuff.That's the same MIT that some cold fusion proponents blame for "killing off" cold fusion. Or at least putting it on a list...

Tags: Cold Calling, Allaire ColdFusion, Fusion, Cold Fusion, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-25

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...

Tags: pattern recognition, satellite, submarine, Murph

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

Ya, you know, what he said

Back in May of last year someone using the name "high end crusader" [HEC] did an HPCwire interview with Thomas Sterling, a Faculty Associate at the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology. Sterling had a lot of interesting stuff to say. Heres...

Tags: HEC, computing, Thomas Sterling

Blog posts 2007-02-02

TechNet takes on green energy agenda

TechNet takes on green energy agendaGuess they forgot aboutall that nuclear waste with minimum 10000 year half life.Whatever happened to the multi billion dollar federal project to build long term storage facilities for this stuff that has yet to work and had all kinds of problems with leaks and what...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, nuclear energy, fission, fusion, Nuclear Power Plant, Microsoft TechNet

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

Barebones Windows to arrive in South Korea

Barebones Windows to arrive in South KoreaNo, the 'yet again' partis that customers are inconvenienced. Just like the N European version, few will want or purchase this. If they do, the very first thing they will do is download the missing software.Bundled IM and media capability are expected...

Tags: Digital music, Web browsers, Media players, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., media player, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-08-23

Fuel cell for notebooks promised for this year

Fuel cell for notebooks promised for this yearWhat? No Portable Nuclear ReactorOr Tesla-style power distribution? I can hardly wait to try and get an alcohol or hydrogen fuel cell through airport security.Not to mention the CO2 and inevitably CO that the alcohol fuel cell gives off in a small...

Tags: Fuel cells, notebook, fuel cell, hydrogen, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

Giant robots in the backyard

Giant robots in the backyardAdd Fustion Reactor and durable modular portable weapons and you got a dealBattleTech anyone? Not practical on fossil fuels though. Neural interface technolog will help for full size mecha. Things more flexible for personal exoskeletal battlesuits but battery technology (or protable cold-fusion) needs...

Tags: Giant Robot

Discussion threads 2004-12-22