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"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.
HB11 Energy is a spin-out company that originated at the University of New South Wales, and it announced today a swag of patents through Japan, China and the USA protecting its unique approach to fusion energy generation.
Fusion, of course, is the long-awaited clean, safe theoretical solution to humanity's energy needs. It's how the Sun itself makes the vast amounts of energy that have powered life on our planet up until now. Where nuclear fission – the splitting of atoms to release energy – has proven incredibly powerful but insanely destructive when things go wrong, fusion promises reliable, safe, low cost, green energy generation with no chance of radioactive meltdown.
It's just always been 20 years away from being 20 years away. A number of multi-billion dollar projects are pushing slowly forward, from the Max Planck Institute's insanely complex Wendelstein 7-X stellerator to the 35-nation ITER Tokamak project, and most rely on a deuterium-tritium thermonuclear fusion approach that requires the creation of ludicrously hot temperatures, much hotter than the surface of the Sun, at up to 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit). This is where HB11's tech takes a sharp left turn.
[...] This is big-time stuff. Should cheap, clean, safe fusion energy really be achieved, it would be an extraordinary leap forward for humanity and a huge part of the answer for our future energy needs. And should it be achieved without insanely hot temperatures being involved, people would be even more comfortable having it close to their homes. We'll be keeping an eye on these guys.
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor
[Source]: Laser-boron fusion
Snake Oil or the Real Deal ? What do you think ?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @09:24PM (2 children)
See subject: Enter Mr. Salvatore Pais (whose name oddly means "Savior of the nation") & his ANTI-GRAVITY INERTIALESS tech patents (& no doubt already MADE invention by now) per https://patents.justia.com/inventor/salvatore-cezar-pais [justia.com] his patents! Things like High frequency gravitational wave generator & Craft using an inertial mass reduction device as well as TONS of high-end SUPERCONDUCTOR work too!
* Still think UFO's are BS? I wouldn't... not after taking a peek @ that! It looks like we make them - "We HAVE the technology" (see my ps for more of THAT, lol).
So, VIMANA?
No longer the province of Vishnu & India's legends (OR "aliens') & yes, as a boy, my Uncle (now deceased), My still living cousin Frank & I saw 2 of them in 1975 hovering in the sky when I was only ~9-10 yrs. of age (blew my mind & I ran home to tell my parents who did NOT believe me until my Uncle said "Psa Kref' (means "SOB" more-or-less but NOT literally, more like "Dog's blood" or "dog's descendant") while I pointed it out & HE corroborated my story to my parents with my cousin too (still living witness to them).
APK
P.S.=> Then there's also Ben Rich (accomplished scientist himself @ Lockheed) who said YEARS ago "We now have the technology to take ET home" per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZZekWMiUQ [youtube.com] & if THAT doesn't "do it" for you? Just search Ben Rich Lockheed Martin "take ET home" in any search engine for more - aren't we amazing, we human beings? I do think so. Too bad we pervert stuff to WAR 1st though MOST of the time. LMAO - Boy, we're REALLY GOOD @ 2 things: Feeding ourselves AND oddly, KILLING one another too (the "duality of man')... apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @10:00PM (1 child)
And the great thing about this is it will all happen in OUR lifetimes thanks to The Singularity, coming any day now. Any day.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday February 24 2020, @12:30AM
In investor presentations there's a huge difference between "have the tech" and "have worked out all the kinks to make the tech viable in working prototypes" for instance: E. Holmes and Theranos.
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