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- From: rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff)
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- Subject: Re: What about Saturn?/Future not Past
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 14:50:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.173536.21955@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Frederick.A.Ringwald@dartmouth.edu (Frederick A. Ringwald) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug20.014256.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- >higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >> This may seem futuristic to some, but no more so than magnetic
- >> confinment fusion devices would have seemed in the 40's, and they were
- >> actually built for the first time in the 50's.
- >Surely you're joking, Mr. Higgins. Magnetic confinement fusion devices
- >don't work so great, in the early '90s!
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- He didn't say they *worked* in the 50's, just that they were *built* in the
- 50's; I think this is in fact correct.
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- Actually, they *work* just fine, in the sense of creating magnetic fields that
- can (briefly) contain fusion reactions. They just don't work well enough to
- be produce more power than they use.
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- Robert
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