I like this quote from the article. It's /almost/ a blanket condemnation of "super-big-ticket" science as a way to make reasonable progress toward any goal which involves more than the most well-understood engineering solutions:
> While larger reactors typically plan all their tests up to two years > in advance, she says, “with this smaller machine, we have the ability > to try new things when they appear. This ability to explore has been a > key.” In other words, in the world of "big science", you can't discover anything you didn't already know was there, waiting to be found. Otherwise you wouldn't have decided, two years earlier, to go looking for it! On 12/06/2010 10:41 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > At the Alcator C-Mod. See: > > http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-fusion-power-mit-advance-contaminants.html > > > A few people put in remarks about cold fusion and links to > LENR-CANR.org, which is how I found this article. > > - Jed >
