From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 07:08:25 MST
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From: Mike Lorrey [mailto:mlorrey@datamann.com]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:02 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Cold fusion redux
"Keep in mind also that Oak Ridge has a vested interest in disproving
experiments like this, because they presage cheap, easy to access fusion
energy, which is totally anathema to multi-billion dollar science and
engineering R&D budgets."
I dont know who you are thinking of that has 'multi billion dollar' budgets,
in the US, try less than half the cost of a single shuttle launch, or about
250 million. (this book was written two to three years ago)
Fusion Reactors
"Now, one obvious and frequently noted flaw in this plan is that fusion
reactors do not exist. However, that fact is simply an artifact of the
mistaken priorities of the innocent gentlemen in Washington, D.C., and
similar places who have been controlling scientific research and
development's purse strings for the past few years. Lack of funding, not any
insuperable technical barriers, currently blocks the achievement of
controlled fusion. The total budget for fusion research in the United States
currently stands at about $250 million per year- less that half the cost of
a Shuttle launch, or, in real dollars, about one-third of what it was in
1980. Under these circumstances, the fact that the fusion program has
continued to progress and now is on the brink of ignition is little short of
remarkable."
Robert Zubrin - Entering Space - page 84
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