Reply To: What is the current state of the project?

[Warwick]

AaronB wrote: It astounds me that we have received so little coverage in the media.

That is because there are a lot of dodgy things such as e-cat, and without sufficient knowledge, media judgements may be based on ‘does it sound too good?’. Besides, they don’t get much advantage from covering something ahead of time, unfortunately all they want is to pip someone else to it at the last minute.

tcg wrote: Their interest in nuclear fission was understandable if slightly suspicious because they would soon need some an alternate means to generate electricity. Rezwan’s presentation of their fusion effort brings a new angle to this discussion. If they want electricity and will forgo bombs, then they may be heading in the right direction. A DPF installation cannot present the same threat to nearby, nervous neighbors (name starts with an “I”) that a fission installation could.

Their interest in nuclear fission is understandable because their neighbour got invaded less than a decade ago, despite posing no obvious threat to any other country, and it is common knowledge that they in Iran were slated to be next. Countries with nukes don’t usually get invaded, think North Korea. Notwithstanding Ahmedinajad’s unpleasant rhetoric, or the anti-Semitic/nationalistic politics that he uses to keep the masses on side against all those democracy-craving liberal middle classes, the bona fide situation is that the US (with the UK) has given the Iranian govt obvious reasons to want to be nuclear.

And of course fission generation has always been a superficial cover for getting nukes. But Thatcher leaned on that at a time when North Sea oil was massively expanding and the UK was massively invested in coal production, so I don’t think it’s an argument that has to depend a lot on the situation.

Rezwan wrote: Thanks to Aaron for the note:

Well, I knew my homeboys had a DPF, but it looks like they’re flat out going for fusion! Rock on Iran:

رييس پژوهشكدهي فيزيك پلاسما و گداخت هستهيي با اشاره به ابلاغ طرح ملي گداخت هستهيي گفت: در چند ماه گذشته تحقيقات در پژوهشكده شتاب بيشتري گرفته به نحوي كه اخيرا موفق به ساخت دو نمونهي ايراني دستگاه هاي گداخت هسته يي پلاسماي كانوني به روش مدر و فيليپوف و همچنين دستگاه گداخت هستهيي به روش محصورسازي الكترواستاتيكي اينرسي شدهايم.

Which means, of course:

“The head of the plasma physics and nuclear fusion research institute, with reference to the national nuclear fusion plan said: In the past few months research at the institute has accelerated in such a fashion that we were recently able to build two iranian plasma focus nuclear fusion devices per the method of Mather and Filipov and likewise a nuclear fusion device per the method of inertial electrostatic confinement. “

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“Iranic” if they get fusion first : )

Yes, irony indeed. Let’s hope no one bumps off the people doing it. At least LPP don’t have to fear for their lives for the time being, until the big boys feel threatened. (Maybe it’s a good thing there’s little coverage!)