Bush team eyes star power for energy needsWhat they don''t say is that 30 years ago everyone involved thought we would "be there by now" long before now, that the path has been much harder and more expensive than the most pessimisitic expectations. I do however look forward to it working! ___________________________________________ Scientists asked to chart path for commercial fusion by 2037 ____________________________________________ Exerpt Last September, the Energy Department asked the 14 members of its Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee to weigh in. In a first response ahead of Monday s meeting in Washington, the committee chair said the assumption of a 35-year target was completely sound. Accomplishments of the program during the past few decades have been truly remarkable, wrote Richard Hazeltine, director of the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. They have brought us to a point that makes the forward look described in your charge, including its explicit time scale, entirely appropriate. Those advances include scientists ability to better handle fusion. Thirty years ago, researchers reached a milestone by producing one-tenth of one watt of fusion power for one-hundredth of a second. Today they re able to produce 10 million watts for about a second. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.