[Matt M]

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/09/30/new-pyrolysis-technology-makes-sugar-for-fuels/

Here is a pretty good overview of the process.

[Matt M]

Massive starvation ahead… perhaps.

Most of the non-oil producing 3rd world countries are one bad grain harvest in the Ukraine
away from starvation on a biblical scale. This is because populations are peaking while grain
is being diverted into gas tanks in the developed world. In addition, the conversion to ‘organic’
farming will generally reduce yields by 30% to 40% from standard farming practices.

This problem will become increasingly acute as the birthrates in these 3rd world countries
collapse. Iran has seen a drop in 20 years from women having 6 babies to women having
1.5 babies. 30 years from now, many nations will have a mushroom economy – with a small
group of workers attempting to support a mushroom cap of dependent elderly. Poor nations
will cease to function.

However, with small cheap fusion reactors, the possiblity exists for inexpensive desalination
plants and the pyrolytic conversion of lignocellulose into sugar (grass and wood into food).
That would create the possiblity of a soft landing for these poor nations.

We are on the verge of the first significant non-disease induced reduction in human population
ever. In 50 years we will drop from 8 billion to 6 billion.

[Matt M]

More information at http://www.newenergyandfuels.com

It sounds more fantastic than believeable. But who knows? Maybe
Philo Farnsworth was re-incarnated?

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/11/30/more-fantastic-fusion-than-rossi’s-e-cat/

[Matt M]

In theory – light is a wave and a particle, Schrodinger’s cat is both alive and dead, and good pitching beats good hitting.
But, sometimes theory and reality do not coincide. That is why we play the game.

And, it seems to me that LPPX has provided more open sourced real world data at a realistic price than any other
group out there.

We can assume things scale up or scale back. But, until the experiments are done – those are only
assumptions.

[Matt M]

I am not a theoretical physicist, but it seems to me that the central issue with this machine is
whether the results will scale up, and it they will scale up in a linear or logarithmic manner.
Critics has said that this approach will always require more energy than it produces. Proponents
has maintained the output will increase at a greater rate than the inputs.

No one is sure because no one has ever gone down this road or gotten these kinds of results before.

But so far, it is looking good for the home team.

[Matt M]

I cannot help but feel optimistic hearing the glass shattered. In my mind it means that things are happening and forces are being unleashed. I just want to know if it’s true that when the porthole blew, Dr. Lerner yelled out, “Watson, come here. I need you!”

[Matt M]

Reminds me of Philo Farnsworth’s design from 1964.

Of course, his was built using vacuum tubes.

[Matt M]

I believe you have to compare the sudden arrival of low cost unlimited power to the arrival of the Internet.
It would appear out of nowhere and change our lives drastically and it would grow our economy so much
so quickly that we would not really be aware of the contractions it caused.

You cannot really evaluate the impact of aneutronic fusion on the short term business cycle.
That is because it will actually facilitate a new long term business cycle like the steam engine,
the rail road, the automobile or the integrated circuit.

This would initiate a new Kondratiev Wave, named after the Russian economist by that name that
first quantified the process.

The impact on production of goods would be astromonical. The desalinazation of water alone
would make deserts bloom and feed starving millions.

[Matt M]

Be that as it may – half of the people on the planet still heat their homes and
cook using either wood or dung.

[Matt M]

The Navy is researching pulling CO2 from sea water, combining it with excess power from their nuclear
reactors and producing jet fuel at sea.

It would be expensive. But, it would replace expensive and vulnerable fuel ships.

[Matt M]

Reprocessing and extracting gases and waste from the liquid has never been done before on a commercial
scale. It will take several billion dollars to set up the process.

The bigger problem is actually the Business Model.

Currently, nuclear providers sell machined fuel rods in perpituity which creates an ongoing
revenue stream. Thorium fuel is just refined chemicals. It won’t be machined and could be
purchased from the lowest cost provider. So, the industry will be losing revenues if they
move to MSLF reactors.

[Matt M]

Here is an article about cold fusion transmuting zirconium into palladium and iridium!
You get energy and some expensive by-products.

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/04/13/the-newest-cold-fusion-breaks-out/

[Matt M]

They say that nickel was transmuted into copper and iron.

I’m waiting for a Rossi device that transmutes nickel into gold!

[Matt M]

Seems like that makes breakeven and net energy production a lot closer than before.

[Matt M]

It appears to me that several different dark horses may have successful concepts. But, the ability to control, concentrate and optimize the plasma is going to be the key to achieving Net Power.

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