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Comment Re:Paradise (Score 0) 239

None of those countries: wishing they had anything like USA's profit-based, shareholder-encumbered, insurance-carried, non-universal and non-socialized health care system. The idea of keeping your entire populace healthy is core to most modern nations. And it is anathema to American voters and policy-makers. That is crazy.

Comment I've seen the Vancouver test facility (Score 1) 138

A friend of mine works there.

The idea is that you magnetically inject plasma into a core, where hyper-synchronized pneumatic cylinders compress the plasma into fusion, pulsing maybe once a second. The heat is taken away by the surrounding protecting liquid metal into a heat exchanger.

Comment Article take-away (Score 2) 141

OK, Slashdotters, stop making fun of the units, and talking about deBeers.

The important information here is that they are using shearing as well as pressure, and are detecting lonsdaelite, a stronger-than-diamond hexagonal-cell carbon lattice. Diamond is cubic lattice structure.

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