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All sorts of efforts and research that was beingf done in the 80's that would have gotten us free of Middle Eastern oil, but conservatives who killed the finding and the research at the behest of the then Vice President, Oils Man George H.W. Bush. I watce with fascinations as thr Reagan Administration killd funding to a revolutionary fusion energy program, that found a method of getting around the need for magnet bottling of the4 high energy plasmas formed in thermonuclear energy prodction, The answer was to think small. What they did was fire a small pellet of a combination og lithium and heavy water into the center of chamber and fired high energy lassers at in it fom all direction. At the point that the lasers crosses over, the heat was high enough to cause fusion in the pellet, and it went into fusion creating an exposion in the area of a few tons of tnt. This could then be used just like the gasoline explosion caused in a car, to drive a piston up and down to generate electricity. In the early eighties they estimated that they were within a few years of the energy break even point and from there less than ten years away from a commercially viable energy source. Reagan koille all funding to the program and UI was never able to find out anything about the project again which makes me suspicious that the information was bought up by the oil industry. Almost every viable sou\rce of alternative energy disappeard during the Reagan years. Those who have kept us bound to the Middle East and oils as an energy source are the real traitors.We could have left the Middle East to go back to being a backwater of bedouins a decade ago if it had not been for the Neo-Cons.
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