Based on the story so far.... (man, science & technology and the occasional clueless misuse of the latter by the former) I imagine a scenario where just as the very last few drops of hydrocarbon fuels are extracted - someone's going to find out - that it would have been really easy all along - to convert the energy in fossil fuels almost directly into electricity. (!) -WaV
On 10/28/07, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since somebody mentioned fusion power, I'm moved to reply. I > worked at the Fusion Research Center at UT from 1981 to 1995. I had > been there some six months before I figured out that magnetic fusion > energy (tokamaks) was not the way to go. That is the sort of device > that may or may not be built in France. PS. On Fusion - I think its been one of those things like a mirage or rainbow - the closer we've thought we were to its grasp - it only turned out to be that much farther out of reach. Unless a quantum solution is discovered to "fake out" matter - A 'net positive' fusion reactor might only be possible with a tokomak the size of a planet.
