Birds of a feather do flock together. Presidents Vladimir V. "KGB" Putin of Russia and Mahmoud "I'm a douchebag" Ahmadinejad of Iran met in Tehran yesterday. They held hands and drank tea while castigating the "Great Satan", and they are planning to enter the Twentieth Century with hoped-for development of the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea.
Meanwhile, we can only hope that the US will soon develop viable thermonuclear (fusion) power reactors, making oil and gas deposits obsolete in the Twenty-first Century.
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Here is a fusion technology with near term prospects:
Bussard Fusion Reactor
Easy Low Cost No Radiation Fusion
It has been funded:
Bussard Reactor Funded
The above reactor can burn Deuterium which is very abundant and produces lots of neutrons or it can burn a mixture of Hydrogen and Boron 11 which does not.
The implication of it is that we will know in 6 to 9 months if the small reactors of that design are feasible.
If they are we could have fusion plants generating electricity in 10 years or less depending on how much we want to spend to compress the time frame. A much better investment that CO2 sequestration.
BTW Bussard is not the only thing going on in IEC. There are a few government programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT, the University of Wisconsin and at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana among others.
The Japanese and Australians also have programs.
Thanks again, Mr. Simon. I found Dr. Bussard's lecture at Google (all 92 minutes of it) very informative. He emphasized that only lack of funds constrained him into using Deuterium as opposed to Boron 11. H also had some interesting comments about why he had difficulty getting funding and the insanity of wasting tons of money in Iraq while starving his project of funding. I am sure he was very happy when he finally got the funding this past August. Too bad he could not live to see the work being done today based on the designs and experiments he worked so hard on throughout his life.
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