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Fusion
Power has always been promoted as the "power source of the future"
and the "ultimate promise of nuclear technology". While
decades of time and Billions of Dollars have been spent trying to
bring this dream to reality, the one method that worked, back in
the 1960's, has been systematically ignorred.
Endless
funding continues to be spent on the methods of "magnetic containment"
and "inertial containment", both of which have utterly
failed to produce any energy gain. But history shows that the same
inventive genius that gave us electronic television and the photo-multiplier
tube, which is the basis of night vision goggles, also invented "the
fusor" tube, using "electrostatic containment". That
genius was Philo T. Farnsworth.
The
working model (pictured above) produced a series of sustained fusion
reactions at the ITT laboratory in 1965, before the project was shut
down. The AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) was putting tremendous pressure
on ITT to stop the project. When Farnsworth suffered a mild stroke,
ITT could not keep the project going. The AEC was pushing for the
continued development of fission reactors by GE and other major contractors.
An early publicized success in fusion technology could capture the
public's imagination and divert funding for commercial fission reactors.
The
technical development of fusion by "electrostatic containment",
in spite of its status as having been successfully demonstrated,
has never been duplicated. If there is such a thing as "safe
nuclear power", then surely, this is it!
For
more information on Farnsworth and the Fusor, please follow these
links:
The
Farnsworth Fusor
US Patent #3,386,883
Distant
Vision by Emma Farnsworth
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