Another Fusion Tease?
It has always seemed plausible to me that some clever scientist(s) might find a shortcut to fusion that would finally usher in the age of fusion energy, rendering the two “mainstream” approaches,...
View ArticleFusion Follies at Der Spiegel
Who says there’s no such thing as German humor? Take, for example, some of the comments left by Teutonic wags after an article about the recent fusion “breakthrough” reported by scientists at Lawrence...
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The Derb on Japan’s “Demographic Catastrophe”
John Derbyshire’s reaction to the BBC documentary, “No Sex Please, We’re Japanese,” about Japan’s “demographic catastrophe” is probably somewhat different from what the producers had in mind. In...
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The United States’ Nuclear Future
There are lots of great ideas out there for improving the way we do nuclear power. For instance, Transatomic Power recently proposed a novel type of molten salt reactor (MSR). The Next Generation...
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Kerry, the Democrats, and the Demagoguing of Global Warming
Secretary of State John Kerry appeared quite concerned about global warming during a recent visit to Indonesia, telling students, The bottom line is this: it is the same thing with climate change. In a...
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China Bets on Thorium Reactors
According to the South China Morning Post (hattip Next Big Future), The deadline to develop a new design of nuclear power plant has been brought forward by 15 years as the central government tries to...
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Of Smug Germans and Sinful Australians: Global Warming Update
No doubt the outcome of the Nazi unpleasantness resulted in attitude adjustment in Germany on a rather large scale. Clearly, however, it didn’t teach the Germans humility. At a time when a secular...
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The Regrettable Overreach of “Faith versus Fact”
The fact that the various gods that mankind has invented over the years, including the currently popular ones, don’t exist has been sufficiently obvious to any reasonably intelligent pre-adolescent who...
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Of Solar Energy and Amateurish Agitprop at Fox News
Reading the “news” can be a painful experience in our time. Most of it consists of a blend of sensationalism, human interest stories, accounts of the lives of various vapid celebrities, and attempts...
View ArticlePolyanna Pinker’s Power Profundities
Recently Steven Pinker, public intellectual and author of a “history” of the Blank Slate debacle that was largely a fairy tale but at least drew attention to the fact that it happened, has been...
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