The Poet as Scientist: Patent for a nuclear fusion power plant

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THE POET AS SCIENTIST

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, April 18, 2022

Patent for a nuclear fusion power plant

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4569819 This is a patent for power generation using nuclear fusion explosives in an underground cavity. It's quite detailed. Does it make sense? If it works as well as the inventor says, and is as risk free, why, exactly, aren't we using it? P.S. Edit: I've just noticed that the Chinese seem to be developing Plutonium Free H-bombs. Wouldn't this reduce the dangers from radioactive waste, and also make the nuclear explosives cheaper? Hence, wouldn't they make this design much more practical? https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1417807A/en

The Poet as Scientist