Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!wb8foz From: David Lesher 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 Message-ID: References: <5qj2ojpnbb47hbcei0v2agik2bjusnak91@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:34:43 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="15951"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Bytes: 1792 Lines: 25 Jeff Layman 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. -- A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com & no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433