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To: TobagoJack who wrote (137436)	12/26/2017 7:13:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217699

30 years ago as part of our R&D BP was funding fusion. Now China fancies that in another 30 years there might be progress. There is already a very effective fusion reactor design. Buying a licence to use it is cheap as it's not patentable. All you have to do is put some silicon into the right form and collect the free energy shining from the sun. Storing it to get through the night and cloudy days and winter and high demand is essential, but batteries are now cheap enough to do that. In some places water can be pumped back uphill or maybe flywheels spun up. Car battery storage will have enormous capacity. 7SSS stations will do the rest. But it would be nice to avoid the photovoltaic step and batteries and just fire a little personal fusion reactor up as required. I'm not a nuclear physicist and I was never convinced by Marty Fleischmann and Stanley Pons with their cold fusion, but I do suspect that some clever way of getting quarks and stuff to interact could lead to cheap fusion energy on tap as required. While doing so, one could also figure out how to bump a proton or 3 out of mercury or lead, or maybe glue 3 irons together to make platinum, or gold with a bonus proton tossed into the stew. With applied intelligence it should be a doddle. Just flip some spins, up and down states and whatnot, produce some positrons and antiprotons and such tricky things. Have a magnetic field to separate the wheat from the chaff and store the antiprotons in a magnetic field trap until a bit more energy is needed and a bit more gold or platinum. Then add more lead as required. While at it, with graviton spin reversal, personal levitation and transport will become fast, safe, nearly free and with enormous 3D capacity. Just zip up to space with a good supply of air then accelerate with rockets. Decelerate with friction and float on down to the ground right at the desired destination. No security checks or airport hassles needed. No catching a bus before the crack of dawn to a remote airport, hours before the flight is due to leave [but doesn't]. Mqurice