Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Think long term...

[Brian Bartholomew (bb]

This is more news about Bussard's approach to fusion power.  He thinks
he needs $200 M to develop a 100 MW prototype in 5 years.  His favored
fusion reaction uses Boron (Borax, soap), produces no neutrons, and
thus no radioactive waste.  Here is a non-technical summary:

        http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2584496&C=america

Video of a presentation Bussard did at Google.  One of his proposed
spinoffs was to process existing radioactive waste and thereby reduce
its storage requirements from 4,000 years to 40:

        http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

His company:

        http://www.emc2fusion.org

                                                        Brian