Dear Reader,
Today, I am adding another blog-entry to my series, featuring salient anonymous texts
from the internet, rewritten, by me, with improvement -- at least, with improvement
in my opinion.
I have reproduced, below, a text
entitled “Fusion Breakthrough", with my “enhancements” applied.
The
original text is available via the following URL --
My
hope is that this text too will help you to “connect the dots” regarding
global
humanity’s
currently ‘crescendo-ing’ crisis -- in case you have not yet connected
those dots yourself already.
Regards,
Miguel
GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES --
Fusion Breakthrough.
Hypothesis A.
Specifically, that upward leap in the growth of the productive forces that would result
from the implementation of Hydrogen-Boron, direct-conversion, essentially radioactivity-less nuclear
fusion electricity generators; economical, sea-coast
fusion-desalination/irrigation/ocean-solution-mining plants; "fusion-torch"
elemental recycling plants, etc., is ESSENTIAL to a transition to a democratic-communist, or
political-economic-democratic, society; to enabling a DECENT standard of living for
the majority of the human species — not to supply a decadent capitalist hyper-consumerism
to all, which they do not want, or need, but to produce the basic necessities of a humane
material life — by and for a majority of humanity which now suffers under the most abject and
dehumanizing privation.
Hypothesis B.
In general, the growth of the human-social forces of production — of the life-creative,
human-wealth-creative, self-powers of the human social individual, and of the human-social
totality, within the rest of nature, as an outgrowth of nature, and as [the 'meristemal']
part of nature — is the primary project of human liberation.
Hypothesis C.
This project cannot be a conscious, deliberate collective project within the entire
span of "human prehistory" [as Marx defines the latter], which prehistory only ends with the emergence of
humanity from its capital-value-form.
Before that emergence, this project is part of
the "cunning" of the collective species-unconscious.
Specifically, under the
capital-value-form, it is not pursued, collectively, consciously as such,
but only
indirectly, in the form of the pursuit of transitory "super-profit"
opportunities by
the personifications of the capital-relation, via the increase of
labor productivity
so as to reduce the unit cost of commodity output, which, upon deeper
analysis, by Marx, was revealed to be aptly 'modelable' as the pursuit
of rising rates of relative surplus-value.
For individuals outside of the class of capital-personification, the development of
"technology", and the choice of "technology", appears as alien, as an affair of capital
and of its engineering, etc., employees, from which the wage-working population is excluded --
or, to superficial, impressionistic empiricists, it even appears, in an illusory manner, as an autonomous
development, outside of any human control.
"Technology" develops as fixed capital — as an 'exo-reflexion'; a material mirroring; an objectification and materialization
of THE CAPITAL-RELATION itself; "technology as capital"; "capital as a technology" —
and therefore in a manner which is disfigured, deformed, and perverted with respect to
the designs of a democratic-communist political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, aiming at the production of
SOCIAL use-value / SOCIAL negentropy.
Only within an emergent post-capitalist, post-pre-historic, democratic-communist society — a political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY — can the expansion of humanity's self-expansive,
self-creative, self-reproductive powers become a conscious project — a matter of
democratic deliberation and of collective-conscious design.
Hypothesis D.
The development of 'the human-social forces of human society [[self-]re-]production' organizes
itself into epochs — which only complexly correspond to the epochs of the human-social relations
of production — and which epochs each center upon the accession to, and the appropriation
of, deeper, earlier-to-emerge layers of nature by the human species, in the form of the
different, successive epochs of ENERGY [re-]SOURCES.
This progression of this energy-[re]sources-appropriation by humanity takes the form of an inverse recapitulation of the dialectic of
nature — of a reverse revisitation of the self-progression of the levels of self-organization of pre-human nature.
Thus,
the human appropriation of nature progresses, cumulatively and
inclusively, from
the appropriation of human-social energy [collective labor, as in
coordinated group
hunting], to the appropriation of animal-social energy [e.g., herding
of [other] social animals by [proto-]human animal societies, and,
later,
other-animals [mutual-]domestication by humans], to that of the [multi-eukaryotic-cellular]
"multicellular" energy of human and
animal bodies in labor [as in the "harnessing", or "yoking" of
horse-body — and of
human-body — to plow], to that of populations of eukaryotic single
cells; eukaryotic-cellular energy [e.g., composting, leather tanning,
yeast-based "daily bread"; other food production and preservation via
bacterial
fermentation — chocolates, buttermilks, sour creams, sauerkrauts,
yogurts, kefirs,
beers, wines, pickles, vinegars, tofus, etc.], and, later, to that of
prokaryotic-cellular
energy [e.g., sewage processing — sewage treatment ponds, septic
tanks — etc;
later [hybrids]: methane digesters; antibiotics-production and other
medicines-production
via "biotechnology", petroleum spill digestion, metal prospecting and
mining, etc.], to
that of molecular energy
[of chemically-bonded atoms' electron outer-orbitals; via
Oxygen-combustion of organic
and inorganic chemical structures — deceased plant matter ["wood",
etc.], cow chips,
peats, coals, mineral oils, natural gases, etc.], to that of
atomic-nucleus power
[nuclear fission; nuclear fusion, or ionized-Hydrogen/protonic power,
thus on the
borderline with "sub-atomic power"], and [predictively] on to that of 'sub-atomic energy',
thence on to that of 'sub-nuclear energy', etc.
Please note that the concept of '''energy''' invoked above is not the reductionist concept
of "energy" common in modern science, but a non-reductionist concept of '''energy''',
'''negentropy''', or '''organization-maintaining/expanding activity''',
which acknowledges the ontological differences distinguishing the
'auto-kinetic' propensities of the different, successive, nested,
'''natural-history historically-specific''', and
«aufheben»-related
layers of natural self-formation, and the qualitatively differing
consequences thereof.
Hypothesis E.
Given this principle and pattern of progression of the energy-basis, and
nature-appropriation-deepening basis, of the growth of the human social-reproductive
forces, fusion energy — that is, nucleus/sub-atomic energy appropriation — is the
expected/predicted next accomplishment in the productive-forces/energy resources
progress of humankind.
Hypothesis F.
Summary of THE BUSSARD FUSION BREAKTHROUGH.
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As of November of 2005, the basic physics for a
[non-linear/non-equilibrium/non-tokamak] practical, small-scale, up-or-down-scalable,
low cost, virtually zero-radioactivity, direct-conversion [no steam/turbine-mediation], fusion-power-based electricity
generator was solved, and readiness was achieved to begin a five-year engineering
development of a demonstration power-plant.
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The work was achieved after an eleven-year effort by a
small team led by Dr. Robert Bussard.
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It was Dr. Bussard who [co-]initiated the first major
government-funded work on nuclear fusion in the United States, ~30 years ago.
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In the early 1970s Dr. Bussard became Assistant Director,
under Director Robert Hirsch, of the Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction Division of
what was then known as the Atomic Energy Commission. They founded the mainline fusion
program for the United States, which became the "tokamak" program.
Hypothesis: The "tokamak" program seeks a [non-existent] linear / equilibrium
fusion regime, involving confinement of near-charge-neutral, mixed
electron / proton-neutron nucleus plasmas mainly by massive external magnetic
fields — plasmas not well-confined thereby due to the electric charge
near-neutrality of such plasmas.
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Later, in June 1995, Bussard stated in a letter to all fusion
laboratories as well as to key members of the U. S. Congress, that he, along with the
other founders of the fusion program, supported the tokamak approach not out of conviction
that it was the best technical approach but rather as a vehicle for generating political
support for fusion funding, thereby allowing them to pursue "all the hopeful new things
the mainline labs would not try". Link to Bussard's letter:
Letter
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In 1983, Dr. Bussard invented a new method of IEC [Inertial Electrostatic
Confinement] fusion, which involved an '''inversion''' of the method used by
Farnsworth and Hirsch in their later work on their 'Fusor' designs, which
dated back to the late 1960s.
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Bussard developed a promising new type of gridless IEC fusor,
called the Polywell, and built and tested several (15) experimental devices, from 1994
through 2005, with shoe-string funding from the U.S. Navy. That funding was cut-off
completely after the final version of the Polywell demonstrated the breakthrough to
high-level fusion reactions, and engineering-readiness, due to its successful solution
of the remaining physics problems.
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During the period of U.S. Navy funding, from 1994 through 2005,
the U. S. Navy required that Dr. Bussard and his team publish nothing about the physics
progress they had achieved. When the Navy cut-off funding in 2005, Bussard was freed to
go public with his results for the first time in 11 years.
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On November 9th, 2006, Dr. Bussard gave an invited presentation
on his fusion breakthrough to Google employees, which was posted to the internet, and
attracted a huge internet audience. In 2006, Bussard's Polywell design was awarded the
Outstanding Technology of the Year Award by the International Academy of Science.
Link to Google video:
Award
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Responding to the groundswell of public interest in his work triggered by the
internet disclosure of his breakthrough, Dr. Bussard founded a non-profit
organization to solicit tax-deductible donations from the American public
at-large to restart fusion development via the IEC approach in 2007.
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Dr. Bussard died on Oct. 6, 2007, from a super-aggressive
multi-cancer [Note here how so many others have died, so quickly, before
him, once their existences had led to the public exposure of
"inconvenient truths" for the powers that be — e.g.,
Martha Mitchell [just after she went public on the crimes of her
husband, John
Mitchell, and of Nixon's CREEP], CIA Director Casey [just before his
subpoenaed
Congressional testimony on the Rockefeller-CIA's crimes against
humanity], Jack Ruby [whose continuing in the living estate represented a
continual threat of exposure of the Rockefeller "coup d'etat",
facilitated by their "hit" on President John F. Kennedy], Michael
Crichton
[shortly after he published his novel State of Fear, the second-to-last of his novels published during his
lifetime, an expose' of the Rockefeller Eugenics / Global Warming global
pogrom, entitled State of Fear], etc., etc.].
Please listen to the — final — audio interview with Dr. Bussard, recorded shortly before his death, linked-to below.
If you listen to it through to the end, you will hear some amazing
revelations about just how held-back technological progress has been
since the 1930s.
Link to full story and audio-interview:
Dr. Robert Bussard's Fusion Breakthrough
For more on this topic, see:
Robert W. Bussard
