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I'm with the Polywell guys.
<b>Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been funded by the Obama administration?</b>
<a href="http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2009/01/easy-low-cost-no-radiation-fusion.html">IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained</a>
Suggested by M Simon on 02/02/2009 @ 11:27PM PT
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To make the grid green in 10 years would require $10 to $100 trillion in capital and the willingness to do without electricity if the wind wasnt blowing or the sun wasn't shining. It would also mean paying 3X as much for electricity. Well China needs the jobs.
I have a much cheaper idea. Paint.
There is always Polywell Fusion. Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been funded by the Obama administration?
Suggested by M Simon on 02/02/2009 @ 11:23PM PT
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Unfortunately, money is the only thing stopping us from being green. Not the cost of any of the technologies, but the loss of revenue to the current energy industries. Specifically, fossil fuel energy producers.
It only makes sense that the sunshine states would implement solar power plants, and the others wind power, water power and Geothermal has it's applications as well. The technology is here, better now, than a hundred years ago when it was discovered.
Only now, when we're able to predict the time it will take to exhaust all our current supplies of fossil fuels, are we finally willing to look into the development of alternative power sources.
Trillions have been made from oil and coal at the cost of the health of the planet. Greed has replaced responcible thinking. Nothing will change until you can convince someone that there is just as much MONEY to be had from alternative power sources as there was in providing fossil fuels. Or, until we simply run out of resources to sell. We need a Henry Ford of Windpower, or solar, or geothermal, or whatever to really make things happen.
Untill then, good luck.
Suggested by Ron Lumsden on 01/31/2009 @ 12:34PM PT
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if they put wind power genaratetors on houses that would take care of it
Suggested by herman tingue on 01/29/2009 @ 11:53AM PT
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Please allow more of the Stimulus Package to go toward our crumbling infastructure. Today, with about a million people without electricity (from yesterday's winter storm), it's quite obvious how old and fragile our infastructure is.
Suggested by Kathy Kangas on 01/29/2009 @ 07:47AM PT
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TWO WORDS!!!
LEGALIZE HEMP!
FOR ALL INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS!
Suggested by rev baker aka rev420 on 01/28/2009 @ 09:19PM PT
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If each state would use 20% of its geothermal energy, we would no longer need coal plants natural gas would be a thing of the past for producing electricity. President Obama please give federal land lease’s to geothermal producing companies as a way to help differ the start up cost of these plants. There is NOW moderate temperature geothermal plants that can produce electricity in lower temperature ground. This technology no longer needs to be placed on fault lines and in volcanic areas. You can read what it is here. It has been online since 2006 http://www.yourownpower.com/Power/#Project%20Overview%20I don’t have any problems with the hobbyist putting solar panels on their roof or even small wind up, we can do a lot better than that. According to the geothermal map on Google earth, http://www.google.org/egs/ (you have to open it in Google earth) According their map if we produced just 20% of our electricity from geothermal we would never have to use a oil gas or coal again for electricity. The technology is here now and there is no excuse not to use it. Click the buble in your state and see how much you can produce. If it is tax revenue from oil that they are worried about we could find another tax to replace it.
Suggested by Carrie Harris on 01/27/2009 @ 03:37PM PT
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Truly alternative energy resources are already available, some that will not even require a 'grid'. Tapping the electro-magnetic field for unlimited, free energy has been possible since the early nineteen hundreds, and yet we are being held slaves to burning fossil fuels for the economic gain of a few...
Please refer to www.theorionproject.org for easily understood explanations of why we have not moved into the era of free energy and how we can.
Suggested by Carrie Cameron on 01/25/2009 @ 11:17AM PT
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There is also a company in British Columbia, Canada, called General Fusion that was recently featured in the Jan 2009 issue of Popular Science. They have come up with an interest concept for initiating a fusion reaction using 'Magnetized Target Fusion' (MTF). Some have described it as a "thermonuclear diesel engine". The very nice thing about it is that it seems relatively cheap to build compared to other projects that require large amounts of electricity for inertial confinement of the plasma field. They have quite a bit of funding right now, but hopefully they will recieve some more in the near future.
Check out their website: www.generalfusion.com/
Suggested by Kirk Taylor on 01/25/2009 @ 08:47AM PT
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Fund theThe "Polywell" Approach to Nuclear Fusion (Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC)). IF the late Dr. Bussard did achieve results and his concept is correct, then each community could have a fusion reactor.
SAFE, GREEN, UNLIMITED ENERGY in each community. Dependance on oil would be a thing of the past. Talk Polywell Forums
Suggested by jowey styxx on 01/25/2009 @ 08:24AM PT
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