Reply To: turn heat into electricity

[Brian H]

YordanGeorgiev wrote: Focus Fusion success by 2020:
– total superiority by price , quality , safety , scalability , manageability etc. features in energy production compared to fossil fuels
– over 50% market share in global energy markets
– disruptive (price) pressure to national governments to create a global energy grid
– global economic growth accelerator by lowering energy prices, solving eco problems ( water desalination )
– war conflicts killer – ( all wars – even religion and ethnic are actually based on resources scarcity, which could be eliminated by a cheap energy source )
– space travel revolution begin ( VASIMR etc. )
– transportation revolution – new type of (larger) vehicles
– all the thinks we cannot even imagine now …

Good list! But I doubt the “war conflicts killer”. Do you think, e.g., that Ahmadinejad, and Kim, and Putin, and Bashir, and Mugabe, and Chavez, and Obama, are motivated by “resources scarcity”? Wannabe tyrants want power for its own sake, not to ease the wants of their subjects, notwithstanding the BS and bumpf and justifications they give for their actions.