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Friday, June 8, 2007

Should Google Go Nuclear?

Check out the Google video lecture by Robert Bussard on Nov. 9, 2006 explaining alternative approaches to Fusion. It’s 1 hour 33 minutes and explains the superiority of Boron Hydrogen fusion.

Note that even in this design the fusion reactor vessel walls have to be replaced every few months since the electromagnetic fields that are setup for confinement cannot trap high energy neutral particles such as neutrons and pions.

I suspect that not that many utility companies will be interested in funding a power plant that has to be shut down every few months to replace the walls of its reaction chamber.

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