Peak Oil Sollution?....Tabletop nuclear fusion device

[masmdu]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/pu-ebo030204.php

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Before such a system could be used as a new energy source, however, researchers must reach beyond the "break-even" point, in which more energy is released from the reaction than the amount of energy it takes to drive the reaction.

"We are not yet at break-even," Taleyarkhan said. "That would be the ultimate. I don't know if it will ever happen, but we are hopeful that it will and don't see any clear reason why not. In the future we will attempt to scale up this system and see how far we can go."

[Fovea]

1. Freeman Dyson

designed a neighborhood sized fusion reactor plan. Perhaps someday.

[Snow]

3. Didn't Dyson also design the orion space drive?

I've read a book describing a ride on a ship with an Orion drive - "Footfall" I think ir's titled. Sounds like a lot of fun. Kinda messy around the launch area, though.

[DontBlameMe]

4. Orion Shall Rise

by Poul Anderson used the same theme.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Like Mr. Fusion in "Back to the Future"!

Yeah, right.