Reply To: Competition from the Thorium reactor

[Brian H]

Axil wrote:
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For example as follows:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/darpas-handheld-nuclear-fusion-reactor/

“ …the Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams project had a budget of just $3 million, and rather shorter timescales; the plans for fiscal year 2009 include: “Develop 0.5 MeV [mega electron-volt] proton beams and collide onto microscale B-11 target with a fusion Q (energy ratio) > 20, possibly leading to self-sustained fusion”

I think this project has turned BLACK.

If the Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams project does not work out, FF could also turn black.

Here’s the difference: FF is not sufficiently complex to blacken. By which I mean that an “existence proof” of Q>1 will give all the info needed to lots of researchers world-wide already involved with PF to replicate the results.

And whoever produces generators first will have such an economic edge that the US will have to fall in line or get HAMMERED by that 20:1 energy cost discrepancy — NRC or NSA be damned.