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Hyperion’s Challenge
The most interesting intersections are technology, politics and business. It looks like the Hyperion Power Generation system hits the Trifecta – and other than the feature story in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science, I think that they are going to have a really hard time with their backyard nuclear reactor – no matter how beneign.
The endorsement of at least some of the scientists at the Los Alamos National Lab is a good start, but it will not be enough to get past the critical public. And just like nuclear power in general, when the policy makers come under the sway of the particular industry lobby – King Coal will probably come out on top.
My ignorance is probably not any worse than the next person’s – but somehow the idea of un-secured nuclear material of any sort in small enough batches that every 25,000 homes you need another one leaves the concern not so much how you make the device practical and affordable – but how you would make it physically secure. “Back to the Future” was just the setting for Mr. Fusion as a power source on the individual (or even small city) scale. Same thing would go for Mr. Fission as well.
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