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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[About time...fusion is the only real answer to the energy problem. Solar and other alternatives are never going to meet the needs of the future. Fusion research should be funded to the max.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 9:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[Convert that time and $ estimate into reality and it should be about a hundred big ones and come on line around, say 12-21-12. hmmm]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[richard Hall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 9:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[The curiosity of Man might end up destroying Man. We don't need electricity, petroleum, or any other form of artificial energy. The natural energy of Man's physical labor has brought Man this far, and only the physical labor of Man will efficiently and safely lead Man throughout future ages. The natural energy of Man does not cause poisonous permanent pollution, it does not require wars to attain, and it is more powerful than any other form of energy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 9:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[Really? Seems to me we were in the technological Dark Ages until Edison put some zap into society. "Artificial Energy" as you call it has enabled the human race to achieve more in all disciplines over the last 100 years than in all preceding time. <br><br>Also, there really isn't anything truly "artificial" on this planet. Everything we have developed as a race is made up of matter and all matter is "natural".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 3rd 2009 5:10PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA["The natural energy of Man does not require wars to attain"<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>A bit naive there, sir. "War" has been a part of humankind since we took our first steps as a species. We did not need energy as a reason for war. <br><br>However, if humans became this planet's primary source of "energy", rest assured that there will PLENTY of governments willing to go to war to obtain the lion's share. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 3rd 2009 5:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmm... making a small sun on the surface of Earth.<br><br>I admit, this makes me nervous.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 10:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[What is on the other side of the earth in the exact spot of the birth of the small sun? I just want to be sure I am not in that area!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sojammer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 1:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Thomas: You got that first sentence right, but I'm afraid most of the rest of it seems like total nonsense to me. WTH is the energy of man?<br><br>@Brian & Sojammer: If this experiment fails, good-bye, Livermore, Calif. :-(!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 1:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wow, apparently no one here has ever taken a basic physics course.  If it fails it will go phffft, like a match blowing out.  Since we can't recreate the pressure of gravity to the trillions tons per square inch you find at the sun's core, they will incase the reaction in a plasma field to hold the it in a tight case and use the photon pressure of their lasers to accomplish the equivalent gravity pressure.  If the plasma fails, it will be like a balloon popping, since nothing will be holding the reacting hydrogen into the tight little space necessary and it will just fly away (at consdierably lower temps than even a good house fire, if that)  If the lasers don't provide enough pressure for compression/fusion, same difference, a match flare and nothing.  If it works, that is they actually get more energy out of the fusion process than they put in (there have been anything up to a hundred similar experiments at fusing hydrogen, none of which ever achieved that breakthru), and they can create a commercial version of the system, then yes, our energy problems are solved for the next million years or so, even at current rates of energy consumption growth. There is enough of the hydrogen isotope deuterium in all the water on the planet to easily meet those needs.  Oh, and deuterium only makes up about 0.0075% of the hydrogen on the planet, including in our water, so we won't burn up all our water.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 2nd 2009 4:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA["The power of the Sun, in the palm of my hand."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cjw]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 3rd 2009 7:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Scientists Hope to Birth Tiny 'Star', Achieve Fusion]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/02/scientists-hope-to-birth-tiny-star-achieve-fusion/</guid><description><![CDATA[so let me get this straight....these guys are going to 'create a small star' that will have more power than the United States electrical system and they're going to contain it how????   In a freakin BARN!!!!!......Idiots.   Why not do it on some deserted island?    Yup...fusion, run amuck because someone didn't think first,  uhm....gee, what MIGHT happen if we're successful that could be the unintended consequences of CREATING A DAMN STAR IN YOUR BACKYARD.....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[giff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 4th 2009 11:52AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
