The bright light of fusion might burn away climate doomsters’ fears
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Hopeful news for us from the Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
We can better prepare for future threats by seeing how we defeated past ones. Here we compare a certain doom from the past with one in our future.
Good news! Coal bankruptcies point to a better future for our climate.
Summary: The bankruptcy of the world’s largest non-government-owned coal company illustrates one of the two big weaknesses in the nightmarish climate change scenario that dominates the headlines. It takes us even further off the path to the RCP8.5 scenario behind those stories, onto one going to a far better future. Climate forecasts (called “projections” by …
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The X-51A is $300 million of fun. Can we spend our money smarter and build a better future?
Summary: We cannot find the few dollars needed to study serious threats like Climate Change and Peak Oil. But the military effortlessly obtains funds to study star travel. Our nation’s physical infrastructure rots. But the military effortlessly obtains the funds for beyond-cutting edge projects like the WaveRider X-51A. Is this how empires die? Can we …
A long-shot project for fusion power: the Polywell
Here is an update on that long-shot path to fusion: the polywell. The polywell is the last work of that giant in the world of physics, Robert W. Bussard (who passed over in October 2007). Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry: The Polywell is a plasma confinement concept that combines elements of inertial electrostatic confinement and magnetic confinement fusion, …
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