http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Since 2006 Robert W. Bussard has given talks on a reactor similar in
design to the Fusor, now called Polywell, that he states will be
capable of useful power generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
my bad, partially:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046
In a study to be published in /Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
for Global Change/, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse
effect of emissions from the Curuá-Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more
than three-and-a-half times what would have been produced by
generating the same amount of electricity from oil.
This is because large amounts of carbon tied up in trees and other
plants are released when the reservoir is initially flooded and the
plants rot. Then after this first pulse of decay, plant matter
settling on the reservoir's bottom decomposes without oxygen,
resulting in a build-up of dissolved methane. This is released into
the atmosphere when water passes through the dam's turbines.
I doubt in Nevada and Eastern Washington (my examples) there would
have
been comparable biomass, though.
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