I read that in the Post this morning. I don't know how viable this is, but I wish Dr. Laberge lots of luck. Seriously.
I wrote to the writer of the article, pointing him in the direction of Cold Fusion, if only to make him aware that there's lots of other interesting work going on in the energy world right now. P. ----- Original Message ---- From: DonW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:11:42 PM Subject: [Vo]:General Fusion A interesting small company .. From the "OTHER" side of the Fusion coin -DonW- General Fusion is working on a new, patent pending concept based on a recent development in fusion research called Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF). MTF has been building momentum in the fusion community for a few years now. It is the goal of General Fusion to demonstrate this new clean, safe and economical concept by 2010. http://www.generalfusion.com/ Management Team: http://www.generalfusion.com/management_team.php Tucked away in the back corner of an old mattress warehouse in this Vancouver suburb sits a silver sphere not much larger than a human head. Like some mad inventor's futuristic Chia pet, it sprouts numerous wires that lead to banks of capacitors, batteries capable of delivering their charge at lightning speed. It could easily pass for a school science project from some overly keen teen -- complete with its very own home-made flourishes, like a particle detector hidden inside a stovepipe and held together with black electrical tape. But if this is a science project -- and in many ways that is what it is for Michel Laberge, the 40-something PhD who has spent five years building and perfecting it -- it is among the most ambitious ever conceived. This modest assemblage of wires and dreams is in fact a home-brew nuclear-fusion reactor -- if reactor is the right word to describe a device that has in the past few years achieved a micro-second's worth of miniscule energy output just seven times. Michel Laberge, the 40-something PhD, has spent five years building and perfecting his nuclear fusion device. But for Mr. Laberge, a slightly dishevelled Quebecer who built his fusion device in an old gas station on an island near Vancouver, it is the prototype for something enormous -- something that, in his words, "will actually save the planet." http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=2785016f-0338 -4253-b594-aeee1ca49385&k=57937
