Billion Degree Breakthrough

[banana republican]

http://www.focusfusion.org/research/billion.html


Experiments at Texas A&M University confirm predictions from Lerner theory that energies above 100 keV (equivalent to 1.1 billion degrees) can be achieved with the plasma focus. This is a big step taken towards environmentally safe, cheap, and unlimited energy.

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This new technology uses an approach to achieving fusion power which is qualitatively different from other current approaches and which holds the promise of providing an environmentally safe, cheap, and effectively unlimited energy source.

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Two fusion physicists have been threatened with firing and forced to recant spectacular results that promise cheap clean, non-radioactive energy. The results demonstrate the achievement of temperatures of over a billion degrees in a compact fusion device called the plasma focus.

"Our experiments achieve key conditions needed to burn hydrogen-boron fuel," said Eric J. Lerner of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, a third member of the research team. "This opens the door to a new energy source that is environmentally clean and may be a 100 times cheaper than oil and gas. Yet instead of hailing our work, a Los Alamos National Laboratory manager has threatened my colleagues with firing if they don't repudiate our results. This is outrageous"

Mr. Lerner announced the results May 28 at a scientific conference in Banff, Albert, Canada, but the scientific paper describing the results has been posted to an online physics archive for three weeks.

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I know it's a little dated but it is interesting.....

[Xipe Totec]

1. Now I am become death,

the destroyer of worlds:

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Movies/Movie8.shtml

[Posteritatis]

3. Insert non-sequitur of the day award here (n/t)

[Xipe Totec]

5. One man's non-sequitur... n/t

[Posteritatis]

10. ...is still a non-sequitur. (n/t)

[Xipe Totec]

14. ...Or maybe, just beyond your cognitive horizon (n/t)

[SpiralHawk]

4. "The final mistake of greed will come when they start....

...digging into the secrets of the Sun." - Yehwenode, Seneca elder

[roguevalley]

2. any step toward dumping oil can't come soon enough. Thanks.

[Karenina]

6. Is THIS what the *blivet

was blithering on about?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2121037

[banana republican]

11. I don't know but I think it's a good guess

They have been working on this for a long time...

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Texas A &M

What happened to Berkley or MIT? Why would a breakthrough in technology come from Texas A&M? Is that where the nazi scientist from WWII ended up?

(Okay, I'm only half kidding.)

[elehhhhna]

13. A&M? Please. That's a cult, not a University.

[Road Scholar]

8. I hope this is so. It could be the answer.

[Karenina]

12. Do yourself a favor.

Don't bank on it.

[Steve A Play]

9. The link wasn't opening for me

So here's a link to the Google cache of the page in text only format if anyone else is having problems loading the page.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:DKjcygdgFSwJ:www.focusfusion.org/research/billion.html+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1

Here's a direct link to the paper in PDF format.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0205/0205026.pdf

Steven P.