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NOT "cold fusion", but interesting
1 posted on 04/09/2021 2:49:53 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Kevmo

Cold fusion ping list, please


2 posted on 04/09/2021 2:51:44 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Wonder Warthog; Kaslin; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hmmmmn.

A private company doing something the government labs have been working since the 1940-50-60-70-80-90 ....


3 posted on 04/09/2021 3:03:30 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
One of the first nuclear weapons, the Little Boy Bomb used a projectile/tube explosion mechanism. The Fat Man atomic bomb used spherical implosion design.

The Little Man bomb

The Fat Man Man Bomb

There is more than one way to skin a cat and I think the little boy was a much more elegant design. here is a diagram of the fusion reactor that I did not see on Popular Mechanics:

4 posted on 04/09/2021 3:14:49 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: Wonder Warthog

We’ll know it’s close when the enviros mobilize against it.


5 posted on 04/09/2021 3:15:39 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Wonder Warthog
"The California-based company has raised $880 million in funding"

That is not even a BILLION, and the politicians are blowing through TRILLIONS every year.

We could fund cold fusion for a tiny fraction of what the politicians are spending on fake crises and payoffs to friends.

6 posted on 04/09/2021 3:17:04 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

They are looking for funding, so take it with a grain of salt.


8 posted on 04/09/2021 3:26:11 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I’d hazard a guess that most of us here are old enough to know commercial fusion-generated electricity has been 20 years away for the last 50 or more years . . .

That said, I wish these guys good luck and good fortune.


15 posted on 04/09/2021 3:54:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Great stuff if true, but a functional power plant in nine years? It takes about that long for planning, approval, and construction of a gas plant and we’ve built hundreds of those.

Brand new tech we’ve never done before? I would double that time estimate and more likely triple it even if the tech works great.


26 posted on 04/09/2021 6:40:00 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Wonder Warthog

Why a big plant - if this works make one for each town/city to operate their own


39 posted on 04/10/2021 3:21:48 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Wonder Warthog

TAE spelled backwards is EAT.................


41 posted on 04/12/2021 5:24:26 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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