Considering that the ITER projected cost is almost $30B compared to the actual cost of NIF $3.5, I think the NIF is a bargain. Besides a possible energy source, the NIF is an excellent research tool on fusion. It could possibly lead to an answer of how CF works.
Keep the NIF. Kill the ITER. Terry On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:11 PM, thomas malloy <[email protected]> wrote: > William J Broad > New York Times > > Dear Mr. Broad; > > Someone posted your article on the National Almost Ignition Facility on > Vortex-L, scientific anomalies. I appreciate your mentioning the > reservations that some people have regarding this boondoggle. The physics > establishment, P E, has done their best to squander as much taxpayer money > as possible on technology, which some of us believe is a dead end. One of > the Vortexians, Ed Storms, retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has > written about a problem called the "first wall." Dr. Storms argument is > that, even if they can succeed in getting more energy out than they put in, > they have no idea how to solve the first wall problem. He is of the opinion > that there is no solution to the first wall problem. > > I would also like to mention my pet peeve, that there are several > alternative approaches to the problem of finding a pollution free source of > energy. The P E, and their union the American Physical Society, has done > their best to strangle all of these technologies in their cradle. We, > researchers in these technologies, have be self funding, while the P E > continues pushing ahead down the dead end road, paving it with government > money. > > > > > --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- > http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html --- > >
