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This investor is chasing a new kind of fusion
Fortune ^ | September 27, 2015 | Brian Dumaine

Posted on 10/06/2015 8:56:26 AM PDT by AZLiberty

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To: Autonomous User

21 posted on 10/06/2015 10:04:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Autonomous User

What’s funny is that Jacksonville actually was one game away from the Super Bowl in just their second year.


22 posted on 10/06/2015 10:08:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Autonomous User

In fact, both Carolina and Jacksonville made it to their Conference championship games in their second year.


23 posted on 10/06/2015 10:11:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger
millions degrees centigrade?.................

Yes, that's what you get when you convert the particle energy in the plasma, measured in eV (electron Volts), to centigrade. A bit pointless, really, but it wows the masses.

24 posted on 10/06/2015 10:15:11 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: Autonomous User

The NFL loves to recycle old team names.

The NY Jets were previously the Titans.
The KC Chiefs were previously the Dallas Texans.

The Buccaneers, Colts, Cowboys, Giants, Lions, Panthers, and Texans are all recycled team names......................


25 posted on 10/06/2015 10:16:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: AZLiberty
More recently he’s backed a new approach to fusion,

...aka a tax write-off. (My best guess, since he's backing Rossi.)

26 posted on 10/06/2015 10:17:17 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: alloysteel

a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, both of which are excellent fuels...

Carbon monoxide is a fuel?


27 posted on 10/06/2015 10:19:38 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

“The NFL loves to recycle old team names”.

So there is hope for the Redskins then? :)


28 posted on 10/06/2015 10:20:47 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Red Badger

More here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt

“For example, a typical magnetic confinement fusion plasma is 15 keV, or 170 megakelvin.”


29 posted on 10/06/2015 10:23:49 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: Moltke

No. This is thermal temperature.


30 posted on 10/06/2015 10:25:30 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Autonomous User

The Washington Redskins were originally the Boston Braves........................


31 posted on 10/06/2015 10:29:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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I didn't realize someone (European taxpayers) were still sinking money into the tokamak design. This program has been around since 1985 and people bag on Rossi?
32 posted on 10/06/2015 10:50:58 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: thackney

Not sure what you reference by “this”, but the “millions of degrees” refers to the “hot” fusion experiments. See also my post just above yours.


33 posted on 10/06/2015 10:58:46 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: mad_as_he$$

US taxpayers as well

http://nstx-u.pppl.gov/homea

Not to mention we help fund ITER

http://www.worldfinance.com/home/is-nuclear-fusion-the-best-way-to-support-rising-energy-demands


34 posted on 10/06/2015 11:00:58 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Moltke

Your posted response in #24 seemed to imply “which require temperatures of 100 million degrees centigrade” was not a measurement of thermal temperature.

It is.

This physical temperature is much of the problem of containing the plasma.


35 posted on 10/06/2015 11:04:03 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

I’m just pointing out that “we” used keV rather than Kelvin when talking about particle energy in a rarified hot plasma. This is not the kitchen stove we’re talking about. But the media likes big numbers and their readership for the most part has no concept of energy measured in keV, so they love that “millions of degrees” lingo. Yes, it may be thermal energy, but it has little relation to what we encounter in everyday life.


36 posted on 10/06/2015 11:28:12 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: justlurking
So, no one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate for describing the flight of a bumblebee.
Is all I know about aerodynamics is that my HS physics book explained very clearly how a curve ball breaks.

Of course, the explanation predicts that the spin deflects the path of the ball in exactly the opposite direction to what any fool can see is what actually happens - but that is a mere detail.


37 posted on 10/06/2015 11:43:11 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Moltke

Thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood your first comment.

Cheers!


38 posted on 10/06/2015 11:53:48 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Sad to see. Years ago I ran some thermo calcs for an MHD project. I knew then it was never going to work but the people were chasing government money.


39 posted on 10/06/2015 11:57:24 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: AZLiberty
Rossi, the scam artist??? I see this nonsense scam I back.

Here is Rossi's "laboratory" in Miami in his geriatric apartment complex.


40 posted on 10/06/2015 12:09:14 PM PDT by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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