Often, a small amount of money spent on efforts that can result in a home run provide much greater average payoff; than large amounts of money spent on efforts likely to result in a base run.
Bussard's work is refreshingly original, and offers a completely clean form of nuclear fusion from easy-to-obtain materials. His research needs funding, and is tantalizingly close to accomplishing what other fusion projects haven't even approached in decades. Please work to establish funding to pursue this line of inquiry. Thank you.
I studied High energy physics for a few years in college and this looks really promising! If I had the money in my pocket I'd rent out a factory and bring this guy in to start building it in house. Congress should support this to get it developed sooner!
We have no time to play around. If we do not get these reactors online within the next 10 years the climate may collapse into a less habitable state before we are prepared to deal with it.IEF can make
This is certainly a risky project, but it is a wiserisk. Bussard has donepreliminary research whichis both credible and promising. There is nocertainty but the benefits would be enormous.
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Whether or not the US congress supports this research, this reactor will be built - perhaps by China, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia. . .need I say more? The fact that this research isn't being rushed into a 'manhatten project' mode is proof enough for me how much power big oil has over the political structure of the USA.
If we're serious about global warming, if we're serious about energy independence, if we're serious about wanting a bright future for our country and our world, then this is exactly the sort of thing we should focus our research on. The cost is tiny compared to the potential benefits.
This could be the answer to our energy needs including liquid fuels.The funding required to see if it is worth going to a power reactor is small and the potential benefits are very large.
$200 million vs $12 billion, need I say more? OK, he will probably need at least double that amount but that would still be only a fraction of what ITER will take. And seen in the light of other well-known budget drains this would hardly even show for potential huge gains. Go for it!
I was trained in plasma physics and electrostatic particle optics at the University of Maryland. I find Bussards work on electrostatic fusion extremely compelling. This is one of the best areas of energy research from a cost benefit prospective. We as a country would be fools if we did not pursue this research for the cost of one day of the war in Iraq.
If you build it they will come... This is a chance to ditch coal oil and natural gas. A shot at putting a shuttle in orbit without huge tanks of hydrogen and oxygen or even solid rocket boosters. Decommission all the aging fission power plants, and burn all the radioactive waste we have stored around the world.
In 2005 the world spent 1118 billions US. A fraction would have been better spent on proof of concept of new fusion technologies that could help the world stop polluting and clean the mess we are in and start the real space revolution. Please support this
Conventional D.O.E. fusion research and the I.T.E.R. seem to be a long road to a fairly sterile result. I'd like to see if Bussard's research might lead the world to a game-changing result. Who knows, it might work.
