The Large Hadron Collider : A future fuel experiment too? One of the great things about vast government-funded scientific boondoggles, apart from their uplifting quality on civilisation, is that they sometimes lay claim to 'spin off' products. Teflon and satellites are two of the things that people point to as a reason for spending the thirty-five billion dollars at sixties prices on a moonshot, for instance. I know that there are many who say that they weren't linked at all, but perception matters sometimes. Lost in the welter of bloviating about the CERN experiment has been a slightly more important, or at least realisable potential spin-off, however. To some scientists (I had a drink with some business people who were also very well qualified to hold forth last night), the CERN research that went live yesterday is also a nuclear fusion experiment. Their reasoning is based around Thorium , which by some process I don't understand fully linked to 'F-orbitals' c...
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