Thank you, FrancisI. Seeing anything from MIT tends to lend strong credibility. I like the focus fusion approach, as it works with the natural plasma instabilities. If a novel confinement concept can augmment this, to get the process over the break even line, I’m interested in it. And as you point out, super conducting magnetism has many other potential applications. This does look promising.
Link here to MIT breakthrough using super conducting magnetism:: http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-newly-formed-company-launch-novel-approach-fusion-power-0309 Can someone with background offer some insight or opinion?
Go to this link here to view MIT breakthrough fusion reaction confinement, using high temperature super conducting magnets: http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-newly-formed-company-launch-novel-approach-fusion-power-0309 I welcome opinions and comments.
Francisl: Great link. More contrary evidence to the BBL. As time goes on, more leading scientists reveal ever more physical discoveries that need to be factored in. Eric Lerner of course is the premier thinker who can tie this all together. As long as he is focused on developing focused fusion, we should be patient in expecting him to weigh in. At the very least, the BBL is in serious jeopardy. I think it is fatally flawed. It’s getting harder for serious science to ignore this. Of course, it has been said that science advances, with funerals. Old convictions are very recalcitrant.
Thank you, Dr. Lerner, for weighing in here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/14/laser-boron-fusion-now-leading-contender-for-energy/. I hope someone can explain the potential of the dual laser approach. Is this a potential breakthrough? All eyes are on ITER, giving the public the false impression this technology is soon to be producing net energy. Meanwhile, LPP, and others, plug away solving the engineering problems of focused fusion, with much greater near term promise.
Just ran across this blurb, proposing an alternate explanation that excludes dark matter and dark energy. Let me know what you think. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/25/dark-matter-and-dark-energy-do-they-really-exist/
Does this quark study relate to quantum physics?
Thank you, Breakable. Looks like one more nail in the BB Theory coffin. And this is of course consistent with Eric Lerner’s Plasma Universe. I would just point out that “half the dark matter” is fallacious, if dark matter only exists hypothetically, to make the BB Theory work False premise, false conclusion, I would think. As such, no need to keep looking for the other half of the missing “dark matter”.
I agree. And can we increase the font size? What we have now is like reading the label on a pill bottle.
This YouTube video claims to falsify the “dark matter” hypothesis. Link: https://youtu.be/MvNCWMD6so4?list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY Quoting from the video, Matthew Pasek of the Rochester Institute of Technology comments, “Nothing in the standard cosmological model predicts this [result], and it is almost impossible to imagine how that model could be modified to explain it, without discarding the dark matter hypothesis completely.”
Any comments or opinions? This seems to strongly support the BBNH proposition.
Sounds like this focus fusion project meets the criteria Gates talks about. I know keeping proprietary control is a big concern, understandably. But at some stage this will need to scale up and get built out, and outside investment will need to get involved. I do see potential here.
Akhenaten: Science and philosophy are inextricably linked. The more you post here the more obvious it is you aren’t very well educated. Birds eat live insects, that potentially carry viruses, which is why we use insecticides, to kill the insects and the viruses they carry. These viruses are bad for birds and bad for people. Further you completely lose any small semblance of credibility you might have had, wherein a real intellectual midget here refers to an indisputable intellectual giant in Dr. Zubrin, (not Rubin), as an “intellectual midget”. As for your potato famine, the proximate causes of the blight should be viewed in the larger picture of the over dependence on the potato mono culture. But I feel I’m casting my pearl before swine here. Not only are you woefully ignorant, and intellectually defective, your conduct on this board is contemptible. You’re not worthy of respect. Unless that changes, I’m requesting you refrain from being a continuing unwanted distraction here any further.
Akhenaten: Sounds like some variation of the electric sun hypothesis. Stars are born and stars die. If you look on the periodic table you will notice hydrogen is first. It’s the simplest element. All the others are produced by fusion energy. If you have a better explanation, submit it for publication and see how it goes. Maybe a Nobel Prize awaits you. Hey, I’m in your corner. I always thought Einstein was over rated anyway.
Akhenaten: Birds eat insects. The Irish potato famine was a mono culture agricultural disaster in the making thanks to land use policies that favored absentee, mostly English, land owners. So, read the next chapter and I’ll be glad to help you get through that as well. You might want to be just a little more open minded and not have an attitude you already know it all. We are blessed with scientific and intellectual giants, and Dr. Rubin is one of them. It’s okay to raise legitimate questions, genuinely seeking answers. I try to do as Socrates taught, to always keep asking the next question, without ever expecting to achieve the ultimate answer.
Akhenaten: Only the “ignition” has to be created. Look at the YouTube video Dr. Lerner does. He takes us through the whole process, step by step. The sun’s gravity doesn’t “create” solar energy. A perpetual nuclear chain reaction does. In other words, once the process is turned on, it is self igniting. The problem is putting it into a controlled useful form, like taming lightening, on a bigger scale. Unless you’re right and all the PhD’s is every country in the world are totally wrong, I suggest you maybe try to learn more and stay in touch with cutting edge research and development, like the focus fusion project. It almost seems like you hope they don’t succeed. That would undercut your Malthusian apocalyptic antihuman emotionally fired delusional belief system.