Rather like the article I read in the journal "Chemistry" -- for HS and
intro college students -- which extolled the wonder of reaching the
break-even point (finally) and claiming that controlled fusion was just
a decade away. That was in 1975...
And there was a big furor a couple of years back, when a respectable
organization (Boeing? Skunk Works? I don't recall) claimed to have a
fusion generator small enough to haul in a pickup truck in less than a
year. That was 3-5 years ago...
Claims are fun. Reality often isn't.
Best -- Terry
On 1/26/2020 4:31 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
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As I've mentioned before, I kinda gave up on PDEs when I ran into a paper explaining how wonderful they were and how they would soon replace all other kinds of rockets -- in the May 1957 issue of the ARS Journal.
Henry
