If they can pull this off ...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: June 10, 2010 6:44:19 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] If they can pull this off ...

[Note:  This item comes from reader Randall.  DLH]

From: Randall Webmail <rvh40 () insightbb com>
Date: June 10, 2010 3:18:11 PM PDT
To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com, dewayne () warpspeed com
Subject: If they can pull this off ...

From: Stewart Brand <sb () gbn org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:47:53 -0700
To: salt () list longnow org
Subject: [SALT] Clean fusion power at last, next Wed., June 16 [for forwarding]

It always sounded too good to be possible as a source of electricity. 
Zero mining (the fuel is hydrogen), zero greenhouse gases, zero waste 
stream, zero meltdown capability, zero weaponization.  But visit the 
National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, and you see 
massive lasers poised to focus 500 terawatts of energy for a 
billionth of a second on a BB-sized target of hydrogen isotopes. 
Impressive early tests suggest that successful ignition could occur 
in the next few months.  Sequence such ignitions rapidly, and you 
have a one-gigawatt clean power reactor.  Laser physicist Ed Moses is 
director of the National Ignition Facility...  

"Clean Fusion Power This Decade" Ed Moses, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason 
Center, San Francisco, 7pm, Wednesday, June 16. The show starts 
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