According to Reuters, "Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project," by Andrea Shalai,

Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.

Tom McGuire ( Read more... )

Remember in Atlas Shrugged, where the now-socialist United States of America began to suffer one after another disaster caused by infrastructure failure, due to the Men of the Mind refusing to continue working to make things run? Well, this happened for real in a small way to Hugo Chavez, in the middle of a speech in which he was ranting on about ( Read more... )

With the revelation of the British hoax regarding global warming, an obvious question is "Do you think that anthropogenic global warming is real?" And here's my answer:

( What's the Truth? )

Inspired by a post of maskedretriever

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We are in the midst of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction. We are wiping out the other species on Earth at a rate far greater than the ecosphere's rate of natural replacement through evolution and speciation, and in doing so we are destroying genetic diversity. The horror and folly of this is extreme: Nature has been ( Read more... )

From my response to a post by maskedretriever (http://maskedretriever.livejournal.com/293534.html?view=1071262#t1071262):

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To reduce our footprint and remain numerous and wealthy, we need to

( What? What do we Need to Do? Tell us, Oh Wise Jordan! )

(cribbed from my reply, in his journal, to something digoraccoon posted).

The name of the game when it comes to sustainable power generation systems has to be "minimum environmental impact." Such a system should also be "universal" -- it should be useable anywhere, not only where special conditions focus wind, heat or water ( Read more... )

The following is in response to firstashore; the quote is from his livejournal. You should read it, he's a cool guy! Anyway, I thought I should share this with my other LJ Friends ...

I would LOVE to see Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) tech start up and make Saudi's oil redundant. Especially since I have reason to believe they ( Read more... )

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/murder-mystery-solved-14283.html

But remember, we must not build atomic reactors because atomic energy is EVIL.

Right?

http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19526216.000&feedId=online-news_rss20Read more... )

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20070909_ap_eriecancerresearcherignitessaltwaterwithradiofrequencies.htmlRead more... )