>The "sensible" thing to do is to pursue fusion with the zeal it deserves. I
>really cannot conceive why this is not being done. Funding at 100 times the
>present level would be justified. The first versions of fusion are also
>going to have waste problems but when you get to Helium 3 fusion you have
>essentially no waste products. Maybe we could install the first fusion
>plants in Yucca mountain until we are certain we have got the containment
>right :-)
>
>If we do things correctly then, by the time we get the first beanstalk
>commissioned to provide the safe down trip to earth, the Lunar flingers
>will
>be delivering Helium 3 mined from the Moon's "topsoil" to power the new
>fusion reactors :-). One can dream.

This is a question I've long had.  With the small but growing number of
Internet billionaires, and rogue nations willing to spend whatever it takes
to achieve military supremacy, why haven't any of these characters done
some real research into fusion energy?

Rather than taking over with guns, take over with ultra-cheap energy
technology.  I suspect it would be rather more effective, and could
make a number of the mega-rich into something even more than that.

Of course, it may be for the best that none of THEM have hit upon
this idea.

Mike H.

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