1 - The basic principles of MHD machines
2 - The reckless resumption of the arms race
June 13, 2006
Flagged by a reader, a good, recent article in Wikipedia
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_machine
June 15, 2006:
Predictable consequence: reckless resumption of the arms race
I say it and I repeat it: at a time when the planet's fate seems increasingly problematic each day, and when the most pessimistic visions tell us "we're heading straight for the wall," another way of speaking about what others once called the Apocalypse—this breakthrough at Sandia—seems to me to represent a final hope and, without fear of words, appears as the most important invention of humanity since... fire.
This non-radioactive, non-polluting fusion—this "nuclear fire," real, usable, potentially beneficial, free of any negative fallout—for anyone wise enough not to use it to create the deadliest weapons ever seen on Earth, leaving far behind the existing nuclear arsenal (alas, as I reread this sentence the next day, the machine is already running).
This idea is one I will try to convey over the coming months, knowing full well that:
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For nuclear oligarchs, conventional nuclear energy (reactors, breeder reactors, laser or tokamak fusion) reveals the narrow limits of their imagination and is merely the expression of a powerful lobby.
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For ecologists, manipulating the atom remains fundamentally tied to poisoned words like "long-lived radioactive waste," and the alteration of habitats through the creation of monstrous humans.
So pay close attention to what I am about to tell you, because it may represent our planet's last chance to avoid descending into chaos that could result in inhumane powers built upon billions of corpses and the remains of a biosphere dramatically damaged by its turbulent inhabitants. These early signs are already present. Doomsday prophets speak, for example, of an inevitable U.S.-China conflict, with the stakes being control over the planet's energy and raw material resources. In my view, these future wars are quietly taking shape. I think of the book "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" ("Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars").
There already exists a form of war in place:
economic war.
This is how the U.S. managed, within a few decades, to bring down the Soviet Empire, which could not afford both "butter and guns," and which collapsed in just a few years like a house of cards—spectacularly... and unexpectedly. Today, China is doing its best to conceal the global invasion it is currently carrying out, closely followed by India, silent infiltration operations where the weapon of these formidable adversaries lies in their low labor costs. Unstoppable. In the face of this reality, the behavior of our French politicians resembles pitiful posturing—even if our "future Iron Lady," seduced by the British mirage, intelligent and cunning, suddenly finds herself at the forefront of polls, stealing from her main rival the fruits of their security policy plan and creating confusion among a herd of unimaginative elephants.
Soon, RFID technology will invade the entire world and our daily lives. Inventory management and distribution networks will throw millions of salespeople and shopkeepers onto the "job market of unemployment"—a topic raised and quickly silenced by our media Pangloss, François de Closets, who preaches that "everything is for the best in the best possible globalist world." Many other professions will be severely affected. Everything I predicted is coming true. Nanotechnologies are already producing invisible microchips, imperceptible to the naked eye, yet equipped with memory—true little spies that will embed themselves in any object in your daily life. Under the pretext of "security," private life will shatter—but
"Why worry," says de Closets, "if you have nothing to hide?"
By creating the "MINITEC" pole in Grenoble, France "has positioned itself in the race for RFID"—a race against which a tiny group of protesters recently attempted to rise up, violently repressed by an increasingly police-state power determined to deny French citizens even the right to protest. But isn't this merely a rear-guard action, a final stand by a few rare individuals who are somewhat aware of what is inevitably unfolding on a planetary scale? The ultimate choice may be summed up as:
- Would you rather be invaded by chips made in France rather than those made elsewhere?
I could go on endlessly, page after page, as I have done for years, listing all the announced catastrophes. But now, suddenly, a response emerges, one that can be summed up in the incredible formula:
Abundant energy for all humanity, everywhere, with no negative side effects, within less than a decade.
All of this sounds like the great contemporary myths of "free energy," "vacuum energy," "cold fusion," etc. But in fact, this new solution is rooted in classical physics—long mastered physics—of non-polluting fusion. Our classic "hydrogen bombs," exploiting the reaction:
Lithium-7 + Hydrogen-1 → two Helium-4 nuclei
and... no neutrons
are merely a tragic, hardly controllable illustration.
Which politician will seize this idea and make it their battle cry?
I remain confined within the narrow scope of my website, even though my audience is fairly large. For many years, I have been banned from the media, labeled a disruptor of conventional thinking, operating outside the "scientifically correct" mainstream. I would not waste my time sending articles on non-polluting fusion to journals like "Pour la Science," "La Recherche," or even "Science et Vie." Such submissions would receive no response, especially since their control by powerful lobbies—the CEA, the military, the arms trade (Lagardère Group, Dassault Group, etc.)—would render any such effort futile, explaining the strange silence that has persisted for over three months.
Therefore, I can only attempt to reach the broadest possible public, delivering messages at various levels, beginning here with the level I hope will be the most accessible.
What I am about to tell you has been neglected for thirty long years by the civilian scientific community (it concerns MHD). Yet there are qualified interlocutors in France—people who are not our usual spokespeople, but rather... military engineers, still active or retired (which allows the latter to speak more freely). These individuals are the counterparts of scientists like Chris Deeney, the mastermind behind Sandia's Z-machine. Like him, they did not aim for "pure fusion" (which would transcend...