The reason this is important is that it's Google--these guys were/are true believers.
We can run our entire empire on unicorn farts, they said.
We can save the planet by eliminating the need for fossil fuels, they said.
And they had enough $$$$ to take a serious stab at it.
And the result of that stab?
It's impossible.
Short version: it would require a perpetual motion machine. Unfortunately the closest thing to that--thermonuclear fusion--is still not very close, unless you believe the Skunk Works. In the interim, I have one word for Google: Thorium. With the money they've flushed, they could already have built a full scale demonstrator
LFTR.
Of course, the Thermageddon Mongers have already decided Thorium not "green."
So that means it should more than cover global energy needs for a few centuries.
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As I said elsewhere, those poor bastards who were hired by G**gle to find the source for the Unicorn Farts & Pixie Dust need to find a nice, quiet yurt in Outer Mongolia to live out their days. The Great Goreacle and his Apoplectic Apostles of Apocalyptic Glow Bull Worming do not take kindly to having the curtain pulled back to reveal that the Emperor has not clothes and has been masturbating and releasing his Second Chakra into the Kool*Aid bowl.
About a year ago, Lockheed/Martin claimed they would have a cold fusion reactor online by 2017. If we can make it that long before Obola's dreamers collapse the system, we should be sitting pretty.
It's my understanding that the L/M effort is based on a variation of the so-called "polywell" technique of fusion - a method long-discredited as being so ridiculous that its "not even wrong".
Don't hold your breath...
Well, McGoo, sadly, since Kelly Johnson died, The Skunk Works has been more skunk than work.
I like that though, "So bad it's not even wrong."
Yeah, I'm kinda surprised SW allow someone to even associate them with this so-called "effort".
I carefully went through a bunch of the polywell geometries 8-10 years ago.
I even e-corresponded with a couple of them.
I was horrified at the stunning level of physics naivete of some of the principal "researchers" involved.
Their understanding of the even the elementary behavior of charged particles in motion in a magnetic field was less than zero.
Mankind is stupider for allowing their existence to continue.
Didn't I get that phrase "not even wrong" from you on one of your earlier sites?
Well, it does kind of sound like something I would have said. Okay--I'll take credit. Another good line I don't have to steal.
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