Reply To: The North Atlantic Current

[Ormond Otvos]

Well, I’ve seen Al Gore yakking three times this week, and fusion, DD or FF is conspicuously (to me) from his very well rehearsed speeches.

Gore’s level of expertise seems to be stretched, but if someone with a degree and peer backup were to make application to him for funds, not necessarily to get funds, but to pique his interest, pointing out where they are on the Gantt chart, possibly he’d get off his “nuclear=waste” dime, and start thinking about stable plasmas, boron, linear generators, x-ray energy collection, and local burst energy sources feeding ultracaps for transit and charging stations, which seem to me some key hot points right now.

And yet, when Letterman needled him about being the first green energy billionaire, Gore responded starchily that if he didn’t invest, the carpers would call him a hypocrite. Gore is not poor, and he’s heavily invested in startups.

Warren Buffett just paid 34 billion for BNSF railroad, which is now dual track nationwide. Wouldn’t a FF fit in a locomotive, handy peak output for crossing the mountains (6000 hp peak)?