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...with colleagues in several countries, but in 1998 Congress pulled the plug on the consortium, contending that it was too expensive. President Bush, however, reversed that decision. The White House announced last January that the U.S. "will join ... an ambitious international research project to harness the promise of fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. America will join negotiations with Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and China to create the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). This will be the largest and most technologically sophisticated fusion experiment in the world." Actually, it's the same consortium to which...
...Congress is about to enact yet another doomed energy policy that promises more of the same. Take hydrogen. Ideally, the gas would be extracted from water using fusion technology. But that won't be available for decades. In the interim, a substitute energy source would be used--natural gas. Yes, the same natural gas already in short supply...
...energy source that has failed to live up to the promises of its congressional supporters. Just as both parties have embraced President Bush's hydrogen initiative, they have also signed on to another of his long-shot proposals, one he says will provide "clean, safe, renewable and commercially available fusion energy by the middle of this century." Unlike nuclear fission, the splitting of uranium atoms that powers nuclear reactors, fusion joins hydrogen atoms to unleash far more energy. The trick is to control the fusion reaction to generate electricity. It has been an elusive goal for half a century...
That's about what President Carter envisioned more than 20 years ago--albeit with a different timetable--when he signed into law the Magnetic Fusion Engineering Act in 1980. Said Carter: "Fusion power offers the potential for a limitless energy source with manageable environmental effects." The law established as a national goal the successful operation of a magnetic fusion-demonstration plant...
...even with mainland China?s somewhat lax regulations for drug approval, it will likely be a year or more before the peptide fusion inhibitor could be used for patients. And that assumes the coronavirus won?t evade the treatment through mutation. Dr. Edison Liu, executive director of Singapore?s Genome Institute, which recently published a study comparing the coronavirus genome in several different regions, says, ?If the receptor interaction is changed so that the virus uses a different receptor or has a different region to which it binds, it?ll evade the peptide...