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[Rematog]

Mr. Lerner,

I never called you a fool..I said that only fool would think that there would be NO military applications.

I admit “satillite battle stations” are pie in the sky…today.

But, use of a new, small (relatively) power source for ships and most importantly, submarines, is obvious. As has been pointed out, the magnetic field may be a handicap. I don’t know if this could be shielded or not. But if it could be, it would be revolutionary in it’s allowing smaller, cheaper, very quiet and fast subs.

Yes, we have long range aircraft. But as I pointed out, most nations don’t have mid-air refueling.

And just mining and smelting uranium ore is within the abilites of any nation with the ore to mine, unlike the very much more technically challenging and expensive process of enrichment. And if a commerially available and very common FF module could be “perverted” to make dangerously hot materials… then it just provides another tool for twisted minds.

This is not to say I’m against FF, but I pointing out things to think about. Nothing human is perfect.

Military technology is a means of applying energy. For most of history this has been musele. First human, then animal (horse), First directly (hit with club), then stored (bow) or leveraged (spear thrower). Modern history has seen the addition of chemical (gunpower, then dynemite, cordite, TNT), wind (sails), steam (wood, then coal then oil), intermal combustion (piston engines then gas turbines) and finally nuclear fission and fusion.

I see no reason to believe that the “data point” of Focus Fusion will not be on this “trend line”.