"S. 2191 is expected to be debated on the Senate floor this Spring. Let's start telling Senate offices now that we want a real climate change bill, one that leads to a complete end to carbon emissions and one that supports sustainable energy technologies, not one that resurrects the failed nuclear power program of the 20th century"   Write to your Senator and tell them you are AGAINST THIS BILL!   (my letter below...)     Re: Lieberman/Warner climate change bill (S. 2191) Dear Mr. Cornyn,   Please read this urgent message on behalf of my world community - humanity.   This bill must not be allowed to proceed for very simple reasons:  Nuclear fission plants are currently one of the greatest threats to our life sustaining planet – probably even more dangerous than carbon emitting factories that nuclear energy is purported to "safely" replace.   Why do I boldly declare such a stance?   Many citizens know these nuclear plants are outrageously expensive and totally inefficient compared to non-polluting sources like solar energy. Alzheimer’s cases are skyrocketing lately.  Cancer is almost a norm among old age illnesses.  Our bodies and the kingdoms below us are suffering horribly from high level toxicity.  The radiation I'm most concerned about is that on the finest planes of matter - the "etheric" planes.    I and many others I know have been trying to tell the media and scientific community about the urgent need to update the 1950's Geiger Counters.  Using these devices to measure radiation on the etheric planes of matter is analogous to trying to measure quantum particles with an old grade-school ruler.  And yes, it's invisible to the naked eye, but that doesn't mean it's not there. Standing in a closed garage with a running car may look harmless, too, but if you have enough intelligence you'll know to get the heck out before you die.   Please, I strongly urge you, please pause this push for nuclear fission energy and look seriously into this matter. By supporting the bill you will be placing all lifeforms, human and sub-human, in major jeopardy on levels so horrifying we will one day look back in astonishment at how politicians so blindly and recklessly edged our ecosystem towards the abyss.   A. M.

good read, interesting site.

Where exactly are we with Fusion Research?  I heard a while back that there was a reactor on line that would or had reached the break even point or perhaps surpassed break even,  but I haven't heard much since.

 

Fusion has always been one of those technologies that is "just around the corner", or "10 to 20 years away".  I'd like to see it within my life time but it better hurry, cause the end is coming fast!

Where exactly are we with Fusion Research?  I heard a while back that there was a reactor on line that would or had reached the break even point or perhaps surpassed break even,  but I haven't heard much since.
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Perhaps what you were reading about is the NIF - the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.  NIF is the first machine expected to achieve fusion "ignition".   But NIF is a LONG
way from being a power production reactor:

https://lasers.llnl.gov/

I and many others I know have been trying to tell the media and scientific community about the urgent need to update the 1950's Geiger Counters.
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First there's NOTHING wrong with Geiger counters - and they are quite sensitive.

A Geiger counter is a radiation detector that has a voltage on it that is so high that when it detects
a photon - the entire gas become conductive until the circuit briefly interrupts the voltage.

Geiger counters are FINE for telling you about the presence of radiation.

Most scientists in the lab use semiconductor detectors - essentially big transistors - that not only
can detect the radiation like the Geiger counter can - but tell you the energy of the photon.

Scientists have been using solid state semiconductor detectors for decades where they need
to measure the energy spectrum.