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New resources!!
-North Korea Presses U.S. to Agree to Bilateral Talks.
North Korea has again pressed the United States for a decision about starting bilateral talks, with a diplomat warning Monday that the North was ''ready to go our own way'' with its nuclear weapons program. ''Now that we have shown the generosity of stating the position that we would be willing to talk to the United States and hold multilateral talks including the six-way talks, it is time for the United States to make a decision,'' an unidentified spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry told its official news agency, K.C.N.A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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-INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD.Full Text Available By: Wagner, Cynthia G.. Futurist, Nov/Dec2009, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p52-58, 7p, 7 color, 1 bw; (AN 44523429)
Database: Academic Search Premier
Energy Wild Cards
Two “energy wild cards” — the
commercialization of nuclear fusion
energy and cars that run
without fuel — could result in improved
health, but also in economic
and political upheaval, said
Francis Stabler, principal of
Future Tech LLC.
Deuterium, a form of hydrogen
that is abundant in ocean water, is
very conducive to fusion reactions,
according to Stabler. If a
breakthrough occurs in harnessing
deuterium and using it to generate
fusion energy, nuclear fusion
might soon displace fossil fuels
and nuclear fission. Fusion-plant
construction would boom, as
would refurbishment of existing
nuclear-fission and fossil-fuelpowered
plants into plants that
generate fusion energy. Within 40
years, most of the world’s power
plants would be fusion-based.
“China is currently bringing online
one coal plant every week.
They could switch over to building
fusion plants at that same rate
because they need the additional
power,” said Stabler.
Gas stations could practically
disappear if the second wild card
occurs. Stabler envisions car engines
powered by energy modules
that generate either zero-point energy,
which draws energy out of a
vacuum, or low energy nuclear reactions,
which merge neutrons
with atoms at low speeds to produce
radiation-free fusion energy.
Unlike combustible fuel, which
vehicle owners have to refill once
every few days, these modules
might only need “refilling” once
every three to four years.
In the short term, the combination
of nuclear fusion and fuel-free
cars would lead to serious economic
trouble
for countries whose
economies depend on exports of
oil and natural gas — Bolivia, Canada,
Russia,
Venezuela, and most
of the Middle East. The hardships
might lead to political upheavals
and more incidents of terrorism.
— Rick Docksai
Two “energy wild cards” — the
commercialization of nuclear fusion
energy and cars that run
without fuel — could result in improved
health, but also in economic
and political upheaval, said
Francis Stabler, principal of
Future Tech LLC.
Deuterium, a form of hydrogen
that is abundant in ocean water, is
very conducive to fusion reactions,
according to Stabler. If a
breakthrough occurs in harnessing
deuterium and using it to generate
fusion energy, nuclear fusion
might soon displace fossil fuels
and nuclear fission. Fusion-plant
construction would boom, as
would refurbishment of existing
nuclear-fission and fossil-fuelpowered
plants into plants that
generate fusion energy. Within 40
years, most of the world’s power
plants would be fusion-based.
“China is currently bringing online
one coal plant every week.
They could switch over to building
fusion plants at that same rate
because they need the additional
power,” said Stabler.
Gas stations could practically
disappear if the second wild card
occurs. Stabler envisions car engines
powered by energy modules
that generate either zero-point energy,
which draws energy out of a
vacuum, or low energy nuclear reactions,
which merge neutrons
with atoms at low speeds to produce
radiation-free fusion energy.
Unlike combustible fuel, which
vehicle owners have to refill once
every few days, these modules
might only need “refilling” once
every three to four years.
In the short term, the combination
of nuclear fusion and fuel-free
cars would lead to serious economic
trouble
for countries whose
economies depend on exports of
oil and natural gas — Bolivia, Canada,
Russia,
Venezuela, and most
of the Middle East. The hardships
might lead to political upheavals
and more incidents of terrorism.
— Rick Docksai
-Nuclear energy and proliferation risks: myths and realities in the Persian Gulf
Technology transfer risks, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122670202/PDFSTART
How nuclear warheads work
In analysing the relationship between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons in the
Persian Gulf, it is helpful briefly to explain some of the basic technical principles
of nuclear warhead operation, as set out in published literature. A breakout nuclear
weapons state would probably first develop a basic single-stage fission device,
perhaps with tritium boosting, before perfecting more sophisticated thermonuclear
weapons (‘H-bombs’). Indeed, given the substantial explosive yield
obtainable from boosted fission weapons, it may not be worthwhile for a breakout
state to invest any further time and financial resources in developing complex
thermonuclear
weapons.
