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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>My point is not to use the
OLPC to run an actual fusion reactor.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rather to create EMS/SCADA simulations for
kids that discuss its use.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Few US kids ever get any training in
Nuclear Physics or electric power. Most research is
classified.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yet their futures may be determined by this
technology.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had students on Navajo reservation in
US and Peace Corps who still can't take a physics
class.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many Navajos live in
nuclear tailings:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><A
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo22nov22,0,7024230.story?page=1">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo22nov22,0,7024230.story?page=1</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>But they have interest in it. That is why I
created simple cartoons for kids to be introduced to it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>OLPC should be used to expose students to
complex ideas.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>With your knowledge could you create a
nuclear cartoon for kids?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Henry Brown</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Edward Cherlin
[mailto:echerlin@gmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 1/28/2008 10:27 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Brown, Henry, DoIT<BR><B>Cc:</B> arjunsarwal@gmail.com;
library@lists.laptop.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OLPC library] OLPC+Polywell
Fusion power+EMS/SCADA = Off grid power for rural areas = Better
healthcare<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>See <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell</A><BR><BR>On
Jan 28, 2008 9:59 AM, Brown, Henry, DoIT <Henry.Brown@state.nm.us>
wrote:<BR><BR>> OLPC + Fusion/electric power + EMS/SCADA = Off grid power for
rural areas<BR>><BR>> Could OLPC be used to monitor (EMS/SCADA) polywell
fusion/electric power<BR>> generator for off-grid power?<BR><BR>The
suggestion is absurd. Why try to save a few hundred or even a few<BR>thousand
dollars on the computers, particularly when electric power to<BR>run the plant's
control system will not be a problem at all? Tiny<BR>keyboards and tiny screens
cannot meet industry operational safety and<BR>ergonomic standards.<BR><BR>>
Small fusion reactor may allow off-grid electricity - Polywell
Fusion<BR>> reactor<BR><BR>The suggestion is also completely irrelevant.
Bussard, the inventor,<BR>says, "...it will take 4-6 years and ca. 100-200 M$ to
build the<BR>full-scale plant and demonstrate it." Assuming full funding,
which<BR>does not appear likely. This demonstration plant is intended to
show<BR>net power generation, but not to show power generation at
a<BR>commercially viable level. It would then take 5-10 years more to<BR>design
and build production plants, if all went well.<BR><BR>Physicists are not at all
in agreement about whether this type of<BR>reactor can achieve net power.
"Controversies exist over whether the<BR>ions and electrons will thermalise and
whether bremsstrahlung [braking<BR>radiation] losses will emit more energy in an
unrecoverable form than<BR>can be produced by the fusion reaction."<BR><BR>It
should be noted that, contrary to widespread popular supposition,<BR>fusion
power is not 100% clean and green, even though it is nowhere<BR>near as bad as
sulfur and mercury from coal or radioactive waste from<BR>fission. Proposed
fuels are toxic. Neutrons from the reactions will<BR>create radioactivity in the
walls of the reactor. There will be<BR>short-lived radioactive waste products
from the reactions themselves.<BR><BR>"Please check your facts before posting
nonsense to Usenet."--Beable<BR>van Polasm,
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