Scientists skeptical of Lockheed Martin's truck-sized FUSION reactor breakthrough boast

[hunter]

9. I agree.

I posted this in a previous GD thread:

Oh boy, enough energy that we can turn the entire biosphere into humans!!!

And everything else into automobiles, highways, airliners, and trash. Great mountains of trash.

I can't wait.

:sarcam:

That's probably how Idiocracy or WALL-E happened.

If I didn't think this news was bunk I'd lose all hope for earth's future. Instead it's just Lockheed standing in front of the lab door whispering, "Don't go in there, it's secret" to con clueless legislators, military people, and investors out of even more money.

Fusion powered aircraft carriers and submarines and power plants will not improve anything. We already have nuclear power and fossil fuel power and look what we do with that.

If anyone really wants to "save the world" it will involve universal literacy, equal rights for men and women, comprehensive sex education for all children, and universal access to birth control.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=919963

When we first started building fossil fueled engines, more than 200 years ago, fossil fuel was, from the perspective of a human lifetime, essentially unlimited.

Unless we, as a species, achieve some kind of wisdom, inexpensive fusion power would be like giving a methamphetamine addict a truckload of the stuff.