I don't get it. Why whinge like that? I think it's great they are trying. Let them take their best shot. Better than investing billions of dollars in SnapChat.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > This claim suffers from the same limitations that haunt laser fusion and > magnetic bubble fusion (ITER). Insufficient tritium can made by the fusion > reactor so that tritium must come from another source, which adds greatly > to the cost. In addition, the process generates significant radiation and > radioactive products that must be shielded, thereby limiting its use to > large installations. Also, the device would be more difficult to service > than is a nuclear reactor, as ITER has discovered. This method to cause > fusion has so many limitations, a rational person asks why is money still > being wasted? This question is even more important now that cold fusion has > demonstrated a commercial generator having more plausibility than what is > being shown to be the case using hot fusion. At what point does rational > thinking take over from the bad habits of the past? > > Ed Storms > > On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: > > January 31, 2014 >> >> General Fusion Founder to Speak at TED Conference >> >> Chief Scientist to highlight progress on much-anticipated fusion energy >> >> VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 31, 2014) - When TED, >> the world's primary idea exchange, moves to its new home in Vancouver this >> year, the city and indeed Canada will be well represented when General >> Fusion founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Michel Laberge takes the stage. >> >> A plasma physicist with an entrepreneurial streak, Dr. Laberge started >> General Fusion in 2002 in an abandoned gas station outside Vancouver and >> has helped it grow into a pioneering force in the development of fusion >> technology. >> >> Dr. Laberge takes the TED stage on March 18, 2014 to talk about the >> exciting progress in the development of fusion energy - the process that >> emulates the power of the sun and creates a clean, safe, sustainable energy >> source for the world. >> >> He will discuss fusion technologies around the world and focus on the >> breakthrough vision that drives General Fusion. The technology, called >> Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF), could lead to the fastest and most >> economical route to a commercial application for fusion energy. >> >> General Fusion has become a world leader on MTF and Dr. Laberge is >> uniquely positioned to tell the story of its contribution to fusion >> innovation, and how scientists around the world are closer than ever to >> making fusion clean energy a reality. >> >> TED takes place in Vancouver from March 17-21, 2014. >> >> About General Fusion Inc.: General Fusion is developing the fastest, most >> practical, and lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy. Established in >> 2002, the company and its 60 employees are supported by a global syndicate >> of leading energy venture capital funds, industry leaders, and technology >> pioneers, including: Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, Bezos Expeditions, >> Cenovus Energy and Sustainable Development Technology Canada. >> >> About fusion energy: Fusion energy holds immense promise as a clean, safe >> and abundant energy source. Fusion generates neither pollution nor >> greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Fusion energy is fueled by >> deuterium and tritium isotopes, which are easily extracted from seawater >> and derived from lithium, in abundant supply. There is enough fusion fuel >> to power the planet for hundreds of millions of years. Unlike nuclear >> fission reactors, fusion energy does not require uranium as fuel, cannot >> suffer from meltdowns and does not produce long-lived radioactive wastes. >> >> >
