Re: ORION the big solution

From: Azt28 (azt28_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: 19 Nov 2004 10:44:25 GMT

Earl Colby Pottinger <earlcp@idirect.com> :

>Cheap power is military power!
>
>Even if it is as big as a house for the smallest design most large military
>ships could use it for unlimited travel range. Most countries would use it
>to extend the life of thier oil reserves. Most countries want cheap power to
>drive thier economics so the country can produce more wealth, thus more
>taxes, thus more money for the military.

Recall: This is an explosive process, not a controled reaction. The only
experiment was half a century ago, when fission was said to be an energy source
too cheap to meter. So why to bother with mastering another process?

Now it is different, but you can't start a new nuclear fusion program from the
blue. You need first a pressur group and so on...

Even if it can be done privately, there is the proliferation problem. Solve it
and something could be done.

Yvan Bozzonetti.