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From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: US Intuitive Machines set for second moon landing in February
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:34:43 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex
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Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:


>Perhaps you'd like to predict when /you/ think that fusion energy will 
>become commercially available, and what form it will take. That should 
>be easy enough as you obviously know a lot about fusion energy.

A friend worked on fusion power at LLNL starting 44 years ago.

He espouses:

A) When a "breakthrough" is in the news, that means someone's research grant
is up for renewal.

B) Fusion power is always 30 years away; it's a constant of the universe 
like pi, or e, etc. 

It was 30 years away when he started working on it, and 30 when he left,
and it still is.


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