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  1. 03-09-2018, 09:40 AM #1
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    MIT Working On Fusion Energy Generation

    MIT scientist & engineers have announced they are working with a private company on a very promising new route to producing viable fusion energy production. The key to their approach centers around newly developed super-conducting material which theoretically allows them to create a force field with magnets strong enough to contain the ultra-energetic and high temperature reaction of gas plasma needed to produce the heat and thus energy of more than what was put in the process. They forecast their process could be commercially ready in 15 years.

    Yeah, I know we have heard that before, but it is better than most predictions of 30 years for other processes.

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    I hope I see it--but progress has been at best extremely slow.

    If you want to have an exciting afternoon with your mind---begin to imagine all the things that would change as a result of the commercial success of fusion.
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    Workers in the present energy industry might not agree that the changes would be all good, but it would be revolutionary.
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    With any game changer there are winners and losers. The losers need to figure out their own game changer.
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    Reliable and abundant energy with no appreciable fuel cost and then batteries worthy of the name and the world would be vastly different. I think of what the poor in the world could do with unlimited power to desalinate their water sources...just for starters. Baja California would be a garden for instance. Maybe I’ll live to see some of it.
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    The lack of abundant and economical electric power is likely the largest single impediment to a viable economy.
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