Reply To: Barack Obama on Energy

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: Great points, Brian. When I make it crystal clear, it’s going to sell energy sector and manufacturing jobs to most readers, and aneutronic fusion powerplants to most of what’s left, and maybe, just maybe, get at least one credible corporation onboard with not just confirmation science, but a seamless transition into a parallel production engineering program without waiting for the niceties of peer-reviewed confirmation.

Carbon, greenwashing, don’t matter what you call that existing market force, since I ID’d the PR value of creating a Genuinely Negative Carbon Footprint in the current world. 😉

After all, Wiki’s aneutronic fusion article makes D-T look extremely difficult, therefore pB-11 must be a nm or two short of impossible.

FF would make the “carbon footprint” issue/standard irrelevant politically and economically. In truth, it already and always is scientifically. As for PR value, it repels me to lie down with the AGW crowd for any reason, even their money. Except insofar as using it to render them obsolete and silent appeals to my sense of ironic justice!

Wiki’s write-ups are entirely from the point of view of sustained/steady-state fusion. I agree that human-scale steady-state is out of the question, though of course PolyWell is determined to achieve it. We’ll see! (Example of problems it faces.)