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The lost nuclear fusion reactor design? Robert Bussard, claimed he'd cracked the problem
wattsupwiththat.com ^ | March 31, 2015

Posted on 03/31/2015 7:16:11 PM PDT by ckilmer

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The pubbies are losing the civilization war; Alternative fuels and electric and fuel cell cars will transform the civilization in 5 to 10 years.

The only way the pubbies can regain the momentum is to create a civilization agenda of their own that's even more dynamic than that of the dems.

What that entails is investing in the R&D for msr thorium reactors and even more esoteric polywell fusion reactors.

The goal is to collapse the cost of electricity to 1/10th the cost of current cheapest coal and create energy sources that are abundant for many millenium.

Energy sources that are so cheap that for instance they'll make it economically viable to bring fresh water to deserts for desert farming and thereby turn first america's deserts green and double the habitable size of the USA and then turn the world's deserts green and double the size of the habitable earth.

The path to the deserts of mars leads through the deserts of the earth.

1 posted on 03/31/2015 7:16:12 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

Mr. Coffee Fusion.


2 posted on 03/31/2015 7:17:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Nowhere in your plan is there massive EBT payouts.


3 posted on 03/31/2015 7:18:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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he claimed that he was getting close to solving the challenge

Getting close to solving and solving are two different things.

4 posted on 03/31/2015 7:24:57 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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DARPA claims they’re having some success but they didn’t say what that means and they’d have to kill me if they did.


5 posted on 03/31/2015 7:32:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Army Air Corps

Here’s a list of possible meanings for the acronym EBT. Which one works for you.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/EBT.html


6 posted on 03/31/2015 7:33:52 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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Bingo. Gee, I am close to finishing my thesis, but I need more time. Can I have my degree and diploma anyway? Uh, No.
7 posted on 03/31/2015 7:34:49 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution: no science, no truth, no nothing. Full of faith, faith in the "god" of chance.)
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To: Paladin2

Mr. Coffee Fusion.
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That design is probably a little too esoteric. However, it doesn’t look like its too expensive for hobbyists to play with.


8 posted on 03/31/2015 7:35:47 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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he claimed that he was getting close to solving the challenge

Getting close to solving and solving are two different things.
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True. But the problem were solved the world would be a very very different place. The risk reward is very promising.


9 posted on 03/31/2015 7:37:10 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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Creating problems is a task all in federal gov’t WILL NOT WASTE..

They excel at creating problems that don’t exist for them to try to solve themselves..

AND by trying to solve them create even bigger problems..
which they blame on republicans..

AND they are CORRECT... Obama’s administration would wither and die were it not
for John Boehner and Mitch McConnell financing him..

You know.............. ON PURPOSE..


10 posted on 03/31/2015 7:39:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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Dupe thread. Earlier one is here

As to the writer's assertion that "Not many people have heard of Robert Bussard", I'd point out (as I did on the other thread) that the red domes that grace front of the warp nacelles of Federation Starfleet ships, from Star Trek, happen to be called "Bussard Collectors" for a reason ...
11 posted on 03/31/2015 7:42:30 PM PDT by tanknetter
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The MyT enegine would solve energy problems from other end were it developed and used..
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet_Tiny_%28MYT%29_Engine


12 posted on 03/31/2015 7:44:23 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Paladin2
Available as an upgrade kit for your Flux Capacitor at O'Reilly Auto Parts.


13 posted on 03/31/2015 7:45:46 PM PDT by Rodamala
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the red domes that grace front of the warp nacelles of Federation Starfleet ships, from Star Trek, happen to be called "Bussard Collectors" for a reason

I was thinking the same.
14 posted on 03/31/2015 7:45:55 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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Cancer cure is just around the corner.

Cold fusion is just around the corner.

Middle class thanking Obamacare is just around the corner.

Peak oil is just around the corner.

A younger, more beautiful replacement for the wife is just around the corner..

Yeah right....keep believing the crapola.


15 posted on 03/31/2015 7:46:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
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Bussard ramjet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet


16 posted on 03/31/2015 7:48:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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I’d also heard of Bussard from Larry Niven’s sci fi novels, where he refrerred to the Bussard ramjet as a means of propulsion.


17 posted on 03/31/2015 7:49:09 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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The bussard design is the second design that I’ve heard about from the great days of nuclear power that was killed. The first one is the msr lftr reactors that alvin weinberg invented and ran in the late 60’s. the fantastic thing is that he also held the patents on the light water reactor as well as the first patents on the msr lftr designs. He said that the molten salt designs were many time safer/cheaper/better than the light water designs. he was so adament about it — he was fired from his position at the head of oak ridge laboratories.


18 posted on 03/31/2015 7:49:38 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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You plan includes no increases in gimmies, man. What about the gimmies?

(Yes, I am just teasing you)


19 posted on 03/31/2015 7:49:41 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Fungi

Attach a C-Note to your next set of revisions and we’ll talk.


20 posted on 03/31/2015 7:50:53 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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