Fusion

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I encountered this article about fusion power several time while reading my friends list.

I don't think too many of you know that when Jim (notarysojac) and I first got together, he was assigned to Princeton to work on TOKAMAK. I used to come down to stay with him. I started rearranging my schedule so I had a long weekend, then I took both late night shifts so I had 4 days off... and eventually, I just stopped going home. Our fusion and theirs are therefore always connected in my mind.

I remember the Carter years with joy - fusion was getting funding, there were solar panels in the white house, Science (and especially Space) wasn't a dirty word....

Reagan *ripping out* the white house solar panels has become my symbol much of what followed. (I want to smack people who tell me - you should have started with solar in the 70's. Hello - *ripped out!*")

I was lucky though - I have Jim, and a memory that few get - of having a president they were actually proud of.

It would be nice to see safe fusion come about at last.

Comments

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was so moving. I'm with you on the ripping out of the solar panels. Every time I hear that bastard Reagan praised, I want to spit nails.

But maybe in our lifetime, we'll see (safe) fusion as a reality?

[msilverstar]

I have a fusion energy story too, will tell you sometime non public.