From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 05:10:13 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [sentience@pobox.com] wrote:
>Now _this_ is something I dealt with last time. If you take a lot of
>lasers, maybe (for nanotech) a solid sphere-surface of hyperefficient
>quantum-well lasers, all pointing inward, you can zap a pellet of
>deuterium ond it will fuse. The last time I suggested it on the group,
>someone else wrote back that I'd disclosed something he was going to patent.
Does Usenet count for 'prior art'? There was a discussion of this idea
there a few years ago... either rec.arts.sf.science or one of the nanotech
groups, I think. I remember it because I was going to steal the idea to use
in a short story, but never got around to writing more than an outline.
Mark
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