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Ocean Observatories Initiative
Is this also a part of, The Atlantic Wind Connection, Referred to in the May 2011 Issue.
Tesla Offers a Luxury Sedan
Will the lithium-ion cells be manufactured in Michigan?
I predict a massive solar flare dec 21 2012. It will activate a genetic bomb .
If LENR turn out to be the biggest story of 2012 will the editors of PopSci resign since they have turned their noses up to all mention of it in their periodical?
Why do you have a picture of a nuclear bomb explosion for a NIF inertial confinement fusion ractor? Everyone seems to think that nuclear reactors will cause nuclear explosions when something goes wrong, when in fact the conditions for a nuclear bomb are nowhere near similar AT ALL to the mechanisms of nuclear reactors
@infinion you need to hit up Wikipedia my friend for a review. a fusion and reactor and fission reactor are NOTHING alike (well I should not say nothing but in a way they are opposites). a fusion reactor is indeed in many ways like an atom bomb exploding except in a closed magnetic sealed and controlled reaction. "nowhere near similar AT ALL to the mechanisms of nuclear reactors" yes this is correct. FISSION REACTORS! but fusion is a different ball game completely.
and (fyi we have fusion bombs and fission bombs).
the first a-bomb was fission
the H-bomb is a fussion bomb.
what the sun does is fussion
what current reactors do are fission
what we are trying to create is fussion reactors.
AND just fyi what happens in a fission bomb and a fission nuclear reactor is the EXACT same in the fact that fission "is a process where a large atomic nucleus (such as uranium) is split into two smaller particles." if it happens over the course of 2 million years or 2 milli seconds deternisns the amount of energy released at any given moment.