The Ed Moses’ cancelled LIFE idea has been resurrected at LLE Omega:
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/two-lle-scientists-awarded-doe-funding-for-fusion-research-426092/
Seems Ed deserves an apology and recognition for pioneering laser-driven fusion reactors for electricity generation.
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Seems Ed deserves an apology and recognition for pioneering laser-driven fusion reactors for electricity generation.
Dear Ed, please forgive us.
It’s amazing how LLE Rochester, which was slated for cancellation a couple of years ago, was able to regurgitate a discredited idea from NIF and use it to get $$$. Who is the program manager an ARPA-E who couldn’t even see this con job? With budget cuts coming I expect LLE to be on the chopping block again, even with the support of Sen. Schumer. I’m sure the real National labs are tired of $80 million going to LLE for an upstate NY welfare program.
The article doesn’t even mention Moses, nor does it imply he was mistreated for the ongoing sham he created.
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=about/profiles/dr-scott-hsu
The LLE award, and the ARPA-E program it falls under, has nothing to do with LIFE. It's about supporting small scale innovative fusion concepts, not ICF. Maybe read something about the context first.
Context? Moses and Miller propose using ICF to generate electricity. It is widely panned, discredited, and cancelled by Knapp in 2014. Now LLE proposes to generate electricity using ICF at energies less than 1 MJ. Doesn’t this sound similar? ICF, fusion energy for electricity generation. LLE has resurrected a discredited idea for electrify generation. In fact, because they are proposing a purely fusion scheme, not the fusion-fusion of LIFE, they should be criticized even more harshly as the requirements are more difficult to reach. I’m sure they have the same issues such as how to get capsules to ignite at 1 Hz and how to extract the energy for electricity generation.
LLE ARPA-E award: Use laser ICF to generate fusion and ultimately electricity on the grid.
LLNL LIFE program: Use laser ICF to generate fusion and ultimately electricity on the grid.
Look up at noon. Fusion works. Only a matter of scale.
If you had the conditions on the sun, you wouldn't care about "scale."
Look up at noon. Fusion works. Only a matter of scale.
5/19/2020 8:30 PM
Indeed the moon is undergoing fusion.
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