Nuclear fusion is coming, says noted VC

CNET ^ | February 7, 2008 | Michael Kanellos

[neverdem]

Magnetized Target Fusion Experiments at LANL

[Anti-Bubba182]

"Corn ethanol is a scam," he said.

That it is!

[martin_fierro]

It's here now.

$100 on eBay.

[Army Air Corps]

The title made me think that the Viet Cong were building nukes.

[wastedyears]

You don’t say...

[wastedyears]

LOL That flashed in my mind.

[coloradan]

Economically viable fusion is just 30 years away - just like it was in 1950.

[Malsua]

Bussard Fusion is coming. It will take a MASSIVE amount of inertia before the doe will allow it to become live. I suspect by 2025, Bussard’s fusion machine will have been put through the paces and will making energy.

[martin_fierro]

There's also a $600 version, but I likes my nuclear fusion cheap.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sounds like some of his conclusions are very, very relevant: But how many will become true?

(Fusion, in the hands of “BIG SCIENCE”, will forever only be “studied” and not “designed” .... Rickover, for all his faults, was a decider, a designer, and an engineer. Not a “scientist” in a trillion dollar ivory tower.)

[Iron Munro]

Charley’s got nukes?

[devere]

Let’s hope it works.

[jeddavis]

Anything which is doable and worth doing does not take decades or trillions of dollars to do. The idea of energy from fusion is a joke.

[Squidpup]

[TCats]

LOL - I was getting ready to post exactly what you did. This Ethanol scam proves that paying the big bucks to Lobbyists can pay off. It also helps if a lot of Corn is grown in an early Primary State like Iowa.

[Moonman62]

He's not a big fan of corn ethanol. "Corn ethanol is a scam," he said.

It takes one to know one.

[eclecticEel]

This guy’s a quack, he’s been selling one scientifically impossible version of fusion after another for years now. Not a thing he says should be given any value whatsoever. In this latest version of quackery he wants us to believe that a Li -> He reaction can yield net energy, what a moron.

[hosepipe]

O.K. why not make a fusion plant to prove it..
50 mil is chump change because once proven the price would go down..

Maybe they don't make a plant because they can't make a commercial or even test plant..
OR......... "they" would..

[timer]

How true. I think of CTNF as being like socialism in the old USSR(do you realize it’s been gone for 19 years now?). One day the russian people woke up and realized it was all a scam, all it took was for Reagan to give them some real competition in Star Wars/SDI funding. They went broke. What will the investors in this latest CTNF scam say when they go broke too?

[Anti-Bubba182]

The hell of it is that a lot of poor people are paying the price at the grocery store.