I agree with you that we (the United States) need to invest heavily in Nuclear . Hell, even France primarialy uses nuclear. Right now, our fleet of nuclear power reactors has just about reached the end of its 30 year lifespan. Modern nuclear reactors are safer and more efficient than what we currently have, but the un-informed masses keep shouting "Not in *my* back yard."
As for the viability of fusion power, I will repeat what a professor of physics from ODU http://www.odu.edu (who is a member of their nuclear physics group) told me when I asked him about the viability of fusion power while staying as a guest in his home (I believe over Thanksgiving of 2006). He said "Fusion power is the technology of the future, and always will be." (or something very close to that). When I asked him to explain this, he started out by telling me that those working on it are saying that it is currently X (I don't remember if he said 20 or 50) years from being viable. Then he said that when he was in school (in the 1970's) they were saying it was just as far from being viable as they are saying today.
It seems to me that this is due to either unrealistic expectations (of what still needs to be developed) and/or unrealistic estimates (of how long it will take to develop the required technology/knowledge), OR that fusion power (on the scale we are talking about -- less than a star) is entirely unrealistic.
Don't post your callsign unless you want me to know where you live, Doug......
If you give me a callsign, I can find out (in less than a minute if I have a decent internet connection) the name, and address registered with the FCC for that callsign. Think before you post.
Intel has been shipping motherboards with UV reactive cables for YEARS.
My three D925XCV's (bought at the end of 2004) came with UV-reactive (blue) SATA cables. The 955 series came with the same SATA cables *and* UV-reactive (blue) IDE/floppy cables.
Quite simply, this sounds like it could easily be fud, and until I see actual system specs I will believe it is such.
Just in case anyone was wondering, the laptop in the picture looks to be an Inspiron 4100/4150 (or the Laitude C-series equivalent).
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I agree with you that we (the United States) need to invest heavily in Nuclear . Hell, even France primarialy uses nuclear. Right now, our fleet of nuclear power reactors has just about reached the end of its 30 year lifespan. Modern nuclear reactors are safer and more efficient than what we currently have, but the un-informed masses keep shouting "Not in *my* back yard."
As for the viability of fusion power, I will repeat what a professor of physics from ODU http://www.odu.edu (who is a member of their nuclear physics group) told me when I asked him about the viability of fusion power while staying as a guest in his home (I believe over Thanksgiving of 2006). He said "Fusion power is the technology of the future, and always will be." (or something very close to that). When I asked him to explain this, he started out by telling me that those working on it are saying that it is currently X (I don't remember if he said 20 or 50) years from being viable. Then he said that when he was in school (in the 1970's) they were saying it was just as far from being viable as they are saying today.
It seems to me that this is due to either unrealistic expectations (of what still needs to be developed) and/or unrealistic estimates (of how long it will take to develop the required technology/knowledge), OR that fusion power (on the scale we are talking about -- less than a star) is entirely unrealistic.