OFF: FLOODS ARE COMING

[dhuggins]

Paul

        I do believe that nucleur fusion is ultimately the answer for large scale
energy needs.  As a weird twist of fate, that's what I wrote my freshman
thesis-thingie on -fusion by laser implosion-  when I was a physics major
at your same institution (VATECH).  This was MANY moons ago, and according
to the plans at the time, should have been a reality by now.  hehehe.

For all interested, some links I dug up lately:

Try http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/ for US gov sponsored info and

http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/nuc%2Dpower.asp for the
opposing view

BTW, the half-life of tritium is really not all that bad, 12 years.  Just
got to be careful with it.  As always, I must warn, don't try this at home.



At 11:55 AM 3/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, M Holmes wrote:
>
>=> Does anyone really believe that we won't get nuclear fusion working
>=> within our children's lifetimes?
>
>I thought we already had!  Mind you, the energy of a hydrogen bomb is a
>little difficult to direct for constructive purposes... ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul.
>
>e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
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