Heavy ion fusion is an interesting technology but I suspect that it is not as simple to put on line as the speaker in the video suggests. There appears to be many difficult engineering challenges to solve and they take time. Does anyone know of an actual working system that has been constructed since the 2004(?) filming of this presentation? Also, the natural gas available due to fracking far exceeds the quantity suggested by the speaker but I realize that he had no way of knowing that this resource would come into being.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 8:08 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:"There is no tomorrow" Video Very well presented. The first half should be looked at by all oliticians responsible for implementing the long term plans required o maintain our standard of living. But I disagree with the ultimate onclusions. All the problems presented including mineral, and water hortages (possible exception of overfishing) are solvable with other nergy sources. Even ignoring LENR I am quite sure that we have ccess to all of the energy that humanity needs from alternative ources like solar, nuclear, wind at a price not far above today's ery low prices. But even without viable LENR there is a technology available that ould manufacture oil and electricity from inexhaustible sources for a rice about half of current oil and electricity. Not many people have eard of it but Heavy Ion Fusion would be a total solution: ttp://www.fusionpowercorporation.com/corporation hour long presentation: ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emKoMgZ03U In summary Heavy Ion Fusion uses a huge linear accelerator driver to use lead coated D-T targets, and is expected to cost about $20Billion or 100GW output (no sense in building smaller owing to ignition nergy requirements). That is many times cheaper than nuclear and voiding all the problems of nuclear power. HIF creates energy at igh temp that can be used to create hydrogen in sulphur iodine cycle, hat can then be combined with CO2 from the atmosphere to create ydrocarbons at about $50/barrel equivalent. Waste heat from hydrogen roduction can then make electricity and waste heat from electricity roduction can then do huge-scale desalination. A few hundred of these plants dotted around the world would provide or all of humanities future energy and water needs, and the echnology does not require any breakthroughs - it could be built ithin 10 years using mostly 1970's technology - it is for example uch simpler and more easily implemented technology than what NIF or TER requires. And it is very compatible with existing nfrastructure. The problem is that it requires the political will to spend $20-30 illion over 10 years to get it working - actually similar cost to TER or about 2-3% of cost of the 'war on terror' ttp://costofwar.com/en/ but it would be a much cheaper way of nsuring access to oil than middle eastern intervention has been. n 1 April 2012 01:49, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: They paint a pretty gloomy picture. The unknown future has always appeared limited, but somehow we seem to get through it and I think LENR will come to the rescue this time. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ellul <ellulpatr...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 8:05 pm Subject: [Vo]:"There is no tomorrow" Video Most of you might have already come across this, but here it goes: About the future of energy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg&feature=share How much of the figures are for real? What about the gloomy conclusion? Regards, -- Patrick www.tRacePerfect.com The daily puzzle everyone can finish but not everyone can perfect! The quickest puzzle ever!
