2000-2008 WARS, TERROR POLITICS, OIL,
DEFICITS, GLOBAL WARMING
WHAT IS NOT NEWS, BUT SHOULD BE, the answer is an environmentally safe, nonpolluting renewable energy source called inertial confinement Heavy Ion Fusion, as seen at America's first national laboratory, Argonne National. 7/22/02 President Bush visits Argonne Laboratory, so what's going on?
UPDATE: September 2004 President bush says to group of big time supporters "I'm going to push nuclear energy, drilling in Alaska and clean coal. Some nuclear-fusion technologies are interesting."(( Please note, the point of my story 1979 - Of Art, the Ayatollah, Oil, Mellon & Fusion is to promote energy alternatives such as Argonne National Laboratory's Dr. Ronald Martin's inertial confinement fusion program (Heavy Ion Fusion). In 1979 the US Department of Energy took away Dr. Martin's $5.5 million budget and gave it to the University of California at Berkeley. To date, Berkeley has spent about $100 million and their program and gotten nowhere))...
Dr. Martin's 11/1/06 letter: "I'm still very much interested in Heavy Ion Fusion. I believe it can supply the worlds' energy and do away with the dependence on oil, but very little seems to be going on. The focus on renewable energy is okay and valuable but will not be adequate to produce the 3 terrawatts the United States needs. That's part of the problem: few people state quantatively the amount of energy any technology can produce, and don't understand how much 3 TW is. For instance - the United states has about 100 nuclear plants at about 1000 megawatts each -- that's 0.1 TW. So even expanding nuclear energy to 3 TW would be a problem with the present technology. The jest of the problem: efficient nuclear energy (fusion) = 10 million times more energy per gram of fuel than chemical energy (coal, oil, gas). That huge factor should not be ignored."
1979 Nature Magazine "Military in clash over US nuclear fusion research"
"US physicists claim that the use of heavy ion beams is now a leading contender for commercial fusion technology - but that research efforts are being hampered by the aspirations of the military establishment."
11/1/02 The Journal Science article "Scientists Say a Quest for Clean Energy Must Begin Now" citing "far distant fusion" and stressing two themes "adapting to climate change is as essential as preventing it, and that economic growth is the key to environmental progress." The adaptation issue also got support from a new scientific analysis, published (11/4/02) suggesting that the only way to safely stabilize greenhouse gases by mid-century was with a hugely ambitions Apollo-size research program on fusion, solar power, and other nonpolluting energy sources.
10/19/02 President of National Academies sends letter to Bush White House stating the administration's policy of restricting the publication of federally funded research it deems "sensitive but 'unclassified'" threatens to "stifle scientific creativity and to weaken National security."
And read my story at: 1979 - Of Art, the Ayatollah, Oil, Mellon & Fusion
Einstein "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
This story was true in 1979 and true today. http://www.anl.gov
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