FBI raids Murtha lobbyist firm, again

[songsmith]

That's a shame. The no-nukes crowd are one of the reasons I don't consider myself to be a liberal.
The cold-fusion thing really should be followed upon. I wonder how much downward pressure there is from petro... they have the most to lose.
I think we should be redoubling our efforts towards all new energy technologies as a matter of national security, let alone the interest of progress. Even the localized energy sources like micro-hydro, solar, and backyard windmills can help in the same way wall-warts hurt... little by little, it adds up.--->JMS

[lonewolf]

I used to run a fission reactor, but how would you run a fusion, how do you contain it? with a huge magnetic flux? better question, how do you turn it off? those are just the first things that popped into my head when I read that post, but the potential is exciting. (haha, potential, that's an electrical joke.)

Yep, in loose terms, an electromagnetic force field kinda like in the Philadelphia Experiment. With fusion, you just shut off the hydrogen fuel and it stops. Unlike fission, there is no possibility for meltdown. Since there is no forced implosion, like in an H-bomb fuse, there is also no possibility for explosion. If the containment fails, all you get is a sealed room full of low-pressure hydrogen. Only the surrounding structure gets low levels of radiation from long-term operation that would require less than 100 years to decay to a safe level.

Songsmith, cold fusion doesn't work.

They are going with the electromagnetic method I just described.