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FogerRox

(13,211 posts)
7. Daym, U got those ™
Thu May 3, 2012, 03:17 PM
May 2012

Sure.

Tri ALpha and Polywell fusion are being funded by the Navy, they want the all electric boat with 1000Mw beam weapons that would be possible with practical proton Boron 11 fusion.

At a certain point our Corporate Masters™ want to make money. Energy and resources in plentiful supply can lead to economic booms. Practical fusion will give us the solar system, and its resouces.

Overall I'm not sure our Corporate Masters™ would fuck up a good thing, at the end of the day. Possibly market economics will force the day, first one to use/abuse practical fusion will make a ton of money, and can use it to get to those space based resources. They are greedy, arent they?

The Dutch Empire collapsed they used wind power as a work multiplie, the British Empire fell, the used coal as a work multiplier, the US Empire is collapsing, we have used oil as a work multiplier.

The next Empire will be India, they will use fusion as a work multiplier. Possibly Polywell Fusion. MAd Max technological fallback vs Greed? I pick greed to win.

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