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I don't understand this thread at all.

Yeah. Thermal equilibrium is the big assumption. Leaving out re-normalization of ions at the inner edge of the + grids was considered reasonable. However, the MIT paper on the subject says that renormalization happens. But isn't that only based on a model? Has anyone tested this theory with hardwar...

Orange County, CA is doing exactly this with a new system that takes raw sewage, pushes it through reverse-osmosis filters, and recharges local aquifers:

http://www.ocregister.com/sciencetech/w ... -treatment

The system is scheduled to go online mid-December.

JohnP, A working fusion reactor is no threat to oil. At least for 10 to 30 years. In the mean time they might be good for extracting oil from rocks. Like shale. I would say this is not true. One reason why: Alliance-Bernstein believes that plug hybrids are about to become the dominant design of aut...

... just caught this bit about google pursuing / funding renewable energy, but even though the good Dr B gave his famous talk there, no mention of polywell: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071127-google-hopes-to-undercut-coal-with-cheap-renewable-energy.html Until somebody gets to energy pos...

MSimon wrote:

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Your meaning is not clear.

Referring to the thread subject...

While we're blue-skying it, one thing that might be a fallout is a (temporary) reduction in the price of copper as some of those old power plants requiring spinning turbines to do their work get decommissioned. (No idea if that's true or not in commercial practice, but it seems plausible.)

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Stupidity?
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I actually favor government ownership of this technology. They will license it to a number of firms and there will be competition. Something that might not happen so fast if one firm controlled the technology. Perhaps. But the problem then becomes how do we make sure it's developed so it is cheap ?...

Things I have never understood about the myriad carbon tax proposals: 1) They are mostly regressive, i.e. they hit the poor hardest. Often true; there are ways to offset that, but maybe that's not the point. If we fail to curb our carbon emissions, the consequences will hit the poor hardest too (lo...

Plenty of slips between cup and lip, MSimon. There's still a nonzero (perhaps even majority, if you believe Todd Rider) prospect that WB-7 never sees the light of day, or doesn't work if it does. There's many, many technical details yet to be ironed out. And they first have to get to D-D or D-T fusi...

I have no problem with making alternatives cheaper than current systems. What I object to is taxing the current systems out of business before we have better available. If better was available no taxes would be required. Things I have never understood about the myriad carbon tax proposals: 1) They ...

MSimon wrote:This has nothing to do with saving the planet. It is rent seeking pure and simple.

So, you're saying that the point of getting Al Gore on board is to elicit subsidy from a hypothetical Clinton II administration?

Others have dropped cash on similar IEC technologies:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9721240-7.html

According to this press release

http://xurl.cc/?y

the FireStream product won't ship until Q1 2008.