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Boron can be isolated from Borate salts, which can be found in the U.S. The main problem will be getting permission to mine it.
1 posted on 07/09/2011 8:18:22 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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Ping!.....


2 posted on 07/09/2011 8:25:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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If it does anything to make the US independent of Muslim crude oil, Obastard will oppose it.


3 posted on 07/09/2011 8:27:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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This opens the way to new approaches for inertial confinement fusions (ICF) that in turn can drastically reduce the laser input energy needed to achieve practical ICF power.

Next they should work on a new approach for a super efficient coal powered steam-shovel that can drastically reduce the amount of coal necessary to run the steam-shovel.

4 posted on 07/09/2011 8:30:30 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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This can’t allowed - it’s too dangerous. Lasers kill people, just ask the people of Alderaan.


5 posted on 07/09/2011 8:31:45 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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6 posted on 07/09/2011 8:33:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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Do they still mine borax out in california? Just asking. I’ve looked into IEF research that Farnsworth, Hirsch, Langmuir, and others have done, and the H-B11 reaction has shown the most promise for clean fusion reactions.


7 posted on 07/09/2011 8:34:44 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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Sorry... I’ll stick with eCat ... Which won’t be centrally controlled and cheap to maintain

Which, of course, is the reason ‘they’ don’t want it


9 posted on 07/09/2011 8:35:15 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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BTW, this isn’t new technology. The concept of inertial electrostatic confinement goes back to the 1920’s with vacuum tube research conducted by Irving Languir from General Electric. By the 1960’s Philo Farnsworth was producing equipment that would produce high quantities of neutrons from D-T reactions in what amounted to a large vacuum tube, in essence creating a miniature star in a bottle.


12 posted on 07/09/2011 8:46:38 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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And, does it produce more energy than is consumed in producing the heat, are is this just a big expensive popcorn popper.


14 posted on 07/09/2011 9:11:33 PM PDT by org.whodat
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bttt


17 posted on 07/09/2011 9:38:12 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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To: SirKit

Fusion ping!


18 posted on 07/10/2011 1:09:10 AM PDT by SuziQ
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For me, the exciting aspect of this discovery is:

“Such a power plant is ideal for stationary electrical generation in a power station or for space propulsion.”

Those that really begin to exploit the solar system (mining, colonization and so forth) will be the winners of the 21st Century.

I hope most of them are of American origin, and not Chinese. I also hope the bulk of it is done by private entities, not governments. SpaceX is a good start - in fact if I was Elon Musk I’d immediately start an initiative to incubate this technology for interplanetary travel.

Imagine the coup if it were not a government, but a private company, that first landed humans on Mars...


19 posted on 07/10/2011 5:35:09 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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