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Phil’s Dad wrote: My goodness. :wow: The INL site shows a breathtaking level of short term thinking. Their prime market is the fossil fuel industry. Who needs it?

I see a pattern forming. What the government (DOE in particular) places in fairly plain sight is career paths that support international policy agreements such as ITER. This also justifies budgets by hiring people with big eds to operate big budget machines.

Meanwhile, back at the (Nevada) ranch, lurks a 2004 pdf showing that DOE already has their own Dense Plasma Focus fusion reactor. They use it for generating neutrons and are developing it to support NIF, DHS, etc. This could be interesting, now that the patent’s been issued.

Here’s the link: http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/sitelines/sl103.pdf

Page 4 even has a decent photo of their rig. There’s also a list of acronyms that gives an idea how many organizations that facility interacts with. Its a LOT of people and sites.

So, Brian, as the Doors song L.A. Woman said, “Took a look around, see which way the wind blows…”