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April 30, 2009
LANL Helps Polywell
Los Alamos National Laboratory gave the Polywell Fusion Experimenters some critical help when they needed it. It all started out with this program. Northern New Mexico businesses are getting financial help from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and there are plenty of ways LANL can help boost local economies, according to LANL Director Michael Anastasio.And the help the Polywell folks got was not a grant. It was a loan of some equipment. Richard Nebel's Santa Fe company EMC (which stands for Energy/Matter Conversion Corp.) has much grander designs. Like saving the world.I'm glad to get some more of the details of the Polywell Fusion Experiments. As you can see the experimenters are starved for funds. So far the US Navy and the DoD are very interested in the experiments but the funding has been sparse. Upping it from its current rate to about $40 million a year would get us answers (like can it work) a lot faster. Now does this mean that the efficiency per dollar put into the work will decline? Of course. However, sometimes it is worth trading money for speed. I think this is one of them. If it can work it will change everything in America and the world. You can find out more by reading: Bussard's IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained 50 Years of Stories: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and if you want to read about Los Alamos: Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been fully funded by the Obama administration? H/T an e-mail from reader LCO Welcome Instapundit readers. And thanks to Instapundit for the correction. LANL is Los Alamos National Laboratories. Corrected above. posted by Simon on 04.30.09 at 04:05 AM
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You meant Los Alamos National Lab...not Livermore. Gary Chaffins · April 30, 2009 11:08 AM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is in California. The story is about the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is in New Mexico. Bob · April 30, 2009 11:19 AM As other commentors have already pointed out, the help came from Los Alamos National Laboratory, not Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Is this an important distinction? Well, before I went to work at LANL for a while as a graduate student (in the 1980's), my Advisor (who had closer ties to LLNL) told me that he was far more concerned about nuclear war breaking out between LANL and LLNL than between the USA and the USSR. While there I more than once heard people refer to their "colleagues" at LLNL as "Livermorons." Hans · April 30, 2009 11:42 AM You should point out that they do accept donations, right from their webpage. I know I have donated a bit to this cause. If it does work, it would be super cool knowing that you helped fund it. ASimpleDad · April 30, 2009 12:17 PM $40 million? Chump change. We spent $90 million just to "educate vulnerable populations" about the switch to digital TV. (Another $650 million was budgeted to help people pay for receivers!) Clearly we have higher priorities than clean, inexpensive, radiation-free energy that could end our dependence on fossil fuels. FB · April 30, 2009 12:26 PM Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been fully funded by the Obama administration? For the same reason they won't consider safe nuclear power in their anti-carbon crusade? K · April 30, 2009 12:29 PM Isn't part of the funding problem that the the big fusion projects are determined to keep all the money for magnetic containment and laser approaches? Larry · April 30, 2009 12:45 PM MSimon, Congratulations on your instalanche. David Dave · April 30, 2009 01:38 PM MSimon, Congratulations on your instalanche. David Anonymous · April 30, 2009 01:39 PM Thanks to all for the correction. I stay up late and some times sleep during the day so Instapundit was the first place I saw it. M. Simon · April 30, 2009 03:49 PM Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been fully funded by the Obama administration? Because the Democrats want serfs, not citizens. Progress and prosperity are dependent upon energy. Energy is what lets us make computer chips from sand. If America is energy poor, progress will be starved, people will be poor and they will have to depend on the beneficent government to save them. This is what Dems want. Nonnie · May 1, 2009 07:37 PM |
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You meant Los Alamos National Lab...not Livermore.