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    Update On Fusion Energy Projects

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    The U.S. Navy has filed a patent claim on a revolutionary new Fusion Device using a different containment system from the others being tried by competitors, which call for massive super-cooled magnets and power to run them. If this system worked (it is the size of your pickup truck), the revolution to society could hardly be exaggerated. So why hasn’t more than a paper patent application been produced so far? My question exactly. If the navy has the map to the Holy Grail, why haven’t they followed it?

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielco.../#4b8da8741070
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    Excellent progress is being made on producing and utilizing fusion energy.

    I hope to see fusion energy implemented and a cleaner climate during my lifetime, as a result.

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    I remain optimistic that we will eventually figure this out.

    From the link:
    It is unclear whether this patent represents a monumental scientific breakthrough. Some even said that this may be a disinformation operation, an attempt to divert America’s peer competitors to pursue a technological dead end. This I would find deplorable.

    What is certain is that nuclear fusion technology development is gathering pace. While the Navy’s design may not be immediately operational (or even realistic), a major shift towards harnessing clean fusion energy is already on the horizon.
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    I hope all involved have forgotten Utah's failed "cold fusion" claims from the late 80's. Personally, it's embarrassing for me to admit I went to the University of Utah where the culprits worked.

    "In 1989, chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann made headlines with claims that they had produced fusion at room temperature — "cold" fusion compared to the high temperatures the process was thought to require. It was the kind of discovery that scientists dream of..."

    https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/cold_fusion_01

    May they sleep with the fishes.

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    Ahh, “cold fusion.” I read about Pons & Fleisman’s claims early the morning it was announced, and noticed the catalytic process described was dependent on the metal, palladium. When I got to the office, I immediately called a friend who was a broker in the commodities office with the intent to buy a load of palladium futures in speculation. Unfortunately, I was unable to get hold of him that morning and by the time I rounded him up the price of palladium had spiked, so I let it pass. As I recall, the price continued to rise as the cold fusion theory worked itself out to oblivion, but, oddly, the price of palladium still retained its high value. As usual, I missed the move even when I saw it coming.
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    Another fusion approach is being touted as “The Thing” that will save us. It’s novel idea is a relatively small metal sphere and a suspended piece of boron in the middle. The sphere has two special lasers on the surface, one of which bombards the boron, while the other creates a plasma to contain the necessary heat generated in the process. The key is that the process requires much less heat than competing Tokamak processes previously conceived.

    https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hyd...-clean-energy/
    https://www.sciencealert.com/hydroge...-fusion-energy

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    Excellent finds and points, Joe.

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    Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide "Unlimited" Energy - Futurism
    https://apple.news/ANcwE0zbxTZqyGcFZzVZj7Q

    Another article on those hb11 guys. Sounds hopeful with a pinch of sketchy thrown in.
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    I am skeptical of their claim of getting electricity directly from the fusion process.
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