Posted on 08/01/2004 9:48:34 AM PDT by ckilmer
Not to mention that telecommuting and homeschooling via the internet could bring families closer together.
Invest some money in educating our children in technical subjects and they will find the trail to the other mountain top.
I no a lot of physics and I remember that they split a hydrogen attom into one helium attom and one carbon attom.
Agree w/ all of the above.
Fusion power would be if it existed. ITER might be the best idea so far, but why should funding be so restricted that it needs an international project to get built? In the meantime scientists are looking at their retirement packages instead of working on reactor problems as they appear.
...only if Congress, supplies the hot air...problem solved. :))
But as with manned space exploration and stem cells, the lesson for conservatives should be clear by now: let's not sit on our butts waiting for the government to do it! Advanced research is tricky and dangerous, and for these reasons - not because it's expensive - the federosaurus is not going to go adventuring on our behalf. Enterprises like this belong in the private sector, responsible to nothing and no one, engaged in by people who are willing to risk their lives.
This should have been done 20 years ago. Ask your elected representative why this hasn't been done. Watch a confused look flash across his face.
The confused face would just be a put-on though. They know exactly why it hasn't been done. Money needs to be spread about in such a way as to insure reelection. There are maybe a dozen guys between the House and Senate that truly work for the best interests of the country.
Spending money on far sighted R&D and exploration things does NOT insure reelection...
No, the U.S. needs to get serious about new-gen fission reactors. There should be an "X-Prize" for designing a low-CAPEX, failsafe fission powerplant.
China has plans to build as many as 32 large 1,000-megawatt nuclear power reactors over the next 16 years.
China orders emergency shipments of coal
China to Build More Nuclear Power Plants
hard science ping
please ping the other "usual suspects" - I am drawing a blank on their userIDs. thanks
I no a lot of physics and I remember that they split a hydrogen attom into one helium attom and one carbon attom.
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darn feel bad for the guy who paid you. oh no those were tax dollars weren't they. I suspose a body could get some satisfaction from swindling the government.
That is probably the main factor. Election and reelection puts a very short limit to any planning for development. Any project needs to be over in 2 years.
But as with manned space exploration and stem cells, the lesson for conservatives should be clear by now: let's not sit on our butts waiting for the government to do it! Advanced research is tricky and dangerous, and for these reasons - not because it's expensive - the federosaurus is not going to go adventuring on our behalf. Enterprises like this belong in the private sector, responsible to nothing and no one, engaged in by people who are willing to risk their lives.
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bull hockey. some of the best money the feds spend is on research. most modern technologies have received seed money from fed agencies like DARPA.
You don't no no fisiks, do you?
Ditto that. I talked to some of the Princton guys back then, and they were cock sure their Tokamac thing would work.
> "I no a lot of physics and I remember that they split a hydrogen attom into one helium attom and one carbon attom." <
This is a joke, right?
It's also a good thing we use coal in our thermonuclear warheads. This way we're not dependent on foreign oil to power our joke fusion warheads.
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