Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion 117
quax writes "Slashdot first reported on the Canadian start-up company that is attempting piston powered nuclear fusion back in 2009. This new blog post takes a look at where they are now, and gives some additional behind the scene info. For instance, a massive experimental rig for magnetized target fusion in the US is currently underutilized, because ITER's increasing costs absorb all the public fusion research funding. Because this Shiva Star device is located in an Air Force base, security restrictions prevent any meaningful cooperation with a non-U.S. companies. Even if U.S. researchers would love to rent this out to advance the science of magnetized target fusion, restrictions make this is a no go."
What? (Score:4, Insightful)
That summary made no sense.
Re:A problem with Canada? (Score:5, Insightful)
Apparently you don't know what "access" is, in a government-secret sense.
We've built up a program as a joint effort. That's fine for that program. That does not mean there's a blanket trust for Canadians to access all programs at all locations. Military secrecy is handled on a need-to-know basis, and outside of NORAD, the Canadians do not need to know.
Sounds Very Steampunkish (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:MIT teaching COld Fusion seminar in January (Score:5, Insightful)
There will never ever be cold fusion.
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.