Nuclear fusion has advanced one more step

alternative-energies.net Bombarding the hydrogen pellet with 192 lasers Humanity tries since a few decades already, to harness the power of the Sun through nuclear fusion because this resource is clean, safe and unlimited. Scientists at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab announced that for the first time they made a significant breakthrough in this matter. They … Read more

Critics attack new 10-year US fusion plan

physicsworld.com Constraining budgets: The ITER site A new report that seeks to map out US priorities in fusion research over the next 10 years has received scathing reviews from American fusion researchers. The report was commissioned by the US Department of Energy (DOE), which asked its Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) to come up … Read more

Can Nuclear Fusion Save the Planet?

triplepundit.com Michael Kourabas | Thursday November 13th, 2014 Nuclear fusion’s tenuous future as a reliable energy source is perhaps best illustrated by the history of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. The project is under construction (here the round shape of the future Tokamak is now apparent in June 2013) and should be turned … Read more

‘Skunk power’ creates confusion over nuclear fusion

BBC by Matt McGrath, Nov. 24, 2014 Lockheed Martin is working on a device that could become a compact fusion reactor Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is doing its best to shatter my favourite science cliche. “Nuclear fusion is just 30 years away – and always will be.” The advanced projects team at Lockheed, known as … Read more

Letter to Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu

January 4, 2015 Prime Minister Binyamin NetanyahuThe State of Israel3 Kaplan St. HakiryaJerusalem 91950 IsraelRef: Proclamation to the World By American And Israeli People to Correctly Solve Energy Through Fusion Power Development Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu: We met in California with Mr. Dan Senor, author of “Start-up Nation; The Story of Israel”s Economic Miracle,” prior … Read more

Saving lives in the Middle East

By Paul Driessen Jan. 3, 2015 Faith-based groups race against time, winter cold and Islamist butchers to reduce the slaughter Yazidi and other Christian communities trace their Syrian and Iraqi roots back nearly 2,000 years. Now they are being systematically exterminated. Not merely driven out. Exterminated – along with Jews, Baha’is and even Muslims insufficiently … Read more

How Pat Boone became spokesman for a fusion energy consortium

How Pat Boone became spokesman for a fusion energy consortium

By Tom D. Tamarkin Pat Boone, the iconic Hollywood singer and entertainer, became the official spokesman for EnergyCite® and a MOU was signed on March 28, 2011. The relationship resulted from a meeting in February and culminated a decade of work by USCL/EnergyCite®. A brief history follows along with the minutes of the Pat Boone … Read more

U.S. energy agency jumps into fusion funding

Science Insider By Daniel Clery 14 August 2014 3:00 pm DOE/SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES The Z pulsed power facility, or Z machine, at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Daniel is a deputy news editor for Science. ARPA-E, the U.S. government agency for funding innovative energy technologies, is preparing to launch a program to support alternative … Read more

Does Science Argue for or against God?

Why are we here? Literally. The latest science says we shouldn’t be. It says that the chance life exists at all is less than zero. So, is science the greatest threat to the idea of Intelligent Design or is science its greatest advocate? Best-selling author and lecturer, Eric Metaxas, poses this intriguing question and comes … Read more