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RST Engineering wrote:
If we had tossed as much money
at taming fusion as we have tossed at unworkable military toys, we'd be
riding around in electric vehicles with fusion providing the recharge
energy.

We tossed hundreds of millions of dollars at it at Oak Ridge alone for at least
30 years. I don't know much about what's gone on there since my father died in
'89, but they may still be working on cold fusion down in "reactor row." Last I
heard, they still hadn't licked the problem of plasma containment.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

Hundreds of millions? Hell, we are spending hundreds of millions a DAY in
Iraq to keep our oil flowing. Cold fusion is a dream; hot fusion is
reality. Tens of billions to create a magnetic Klein bottle, and we are
home free for a couple of thousand years.

Jim




"George Patterson" wrote in message
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RST Engineering wrote:
If we had tossed as much money at taming fusion as we have tossed at
unworkable military toys, we'd be riding around in electric vehicles with
fusion providing the recharge energy.

We tossed hundreds of millions of dollars at it at Oak Ridge alone for at
least 30 years. I don't know much about what's gone on there since my
father died in '89, but they may still be working on cold fusion down in
"reactor row." Last I heard, they still hadn't licked the problem of
plasma containment.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

Tens of billions to create a magnetic Klein bottle

You sure you mean a "klein bottle"? If we could create a real Klein
bottle, we'd be home free forever.

Jose
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Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
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I understand the topologist's definition of Klein bottle; those working on
hot fusion have nicknamed the process of containing the energy created a
Klein bottle because it seems (seemed?) to be the same impossible task.

Jim


"Jose" wrote in message
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Tens of billions to create a magnetic Klein bottle

You sure you mean a "klein bottle"? If we could create a real Klein
bottle, we'd be home free forever.

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

RST Engineering wrote:
Hundreds of millions?

Per year.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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Hundreds of millions? Hell, we are spending hundreds of millions a DAY in
Iraq to keep our oil flowing. Cold fusion is a dream; hot fusion is
reality. Tens of billions to create a magnetic Klein bottle, and we are
home free for a couple of thousand years.


Think you could get some investors?