http://www.physorg.com/news96730015.html

$35 million for this new "inertial confinement" process is bargain basement. Compare it with the billions already spent on "magnetic confinement". Why do we have to wait 2 decades for it when it costs less than one CEOs annual pay?
Let"s stop work on magnetic confinement for a month and put the $50 million saved into testing this new fusion process. Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over expecting a new result". People, let"s drop the magnetic confinement research and try something new!!!
The inertial confinement design is getting simpler and more efficient the more they work on it. This has got to be a winner. With Magnetic confinement we are getting more and more complex the more we work on it, and getting further away from the goal of fusion.
Am I the only one who can see the big picture. This is so frustrating.

googleplex, I am in agreement with you. I have been watching the efforts toward fusion, and been rather discouraged by the magnetic containment approach that has been at the fore front for years. I spent some time researching something called IEC fusion (Inertial Electrostatic Containment) that has some interesting possibilities.

From what I can tell, this is a VERY SCALED UP version of it. If so, then I think we can see fusion power plants within 20+ years.

There are also other uses for these advances. I have been tracking a forum on a Unified Field Theory referred to as (Extended) Heim Theory. It has a lot going for it; among other things a particle mass prediction/formula from first principals, as well as the prediction of 2 additional "forces" that bridge electro-magnetic and gravity.

One of proposed experiments for testing EHT requires producing a very high magnetic field, which is used (along with a spinning torus of matter) to produce a field effect of one of the new forces. The Z machine has been thrown around some in the discussions, but has been dismissed due to size, inefficiencies, etc. This may be the engineering advancement needed to create a large scale test bed for the theory.

what a joke:)

feds have anti-gravity, tech for about 50 years,

these are just kids playing science


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This is only the beginning. We have not even begun with the nano scale version.

Scientists are trying to create fusion like in the sun, but the sun is not and never was pure hydrogen but had helium too. It is possible that it is a catalyst in the reaction.