Nearly a dozen years ago I wrote an article for The Huffington Pos t on Star Power for Humanit y. The latest June issue of Scientific American featured Star Power: What is the future of fusion energy? You can click on that link for the full article. I'll summarize: This past December, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNR ) claimed a breakthrough in attaining net positive with their laser fusion system. No one had ever done that before. As an aside, I worked there in the 1970's on that project, and left because I could not envision the laser that would accomplish this task. Can you believe that was around half a century ago? The bad news is that net positive is a long way from commercialization. And certainly, that intriguing ultimate laser has not yet been invented. Well anyway, this article was written by Philip Ball, a British science writer who is my same age. He has a PhD in physics from Bristol Un...
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.