The April 20, 2009 Toronto Star Business Section had a lead article written by Tyler Hamilton, “Looking for a NET GAIN in the energy sector” www.thestar.com/article/621041. Apparently the scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility intend to use their recently acquired 192 massive lasers and aim them at a tiny pellet containing the hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium. If the experiment is a success, the two isotopes will compress, heat up and fuse together to form helium while releasing a tiny amount of split-second energy. Their goal is to get more energy out than they put in.

It is reported that the U.S. Dept. of Energy spent 15 years and US$4 billion in order to develop these huge lasers. Imagine how much renewable sustainable green energy technology could have been developed with the same amount of money!

Fusion energy is touted as a path to an almost endless supply of clean energy with virtually no radioactive waste. There is a mine of information on the attempts to develop fusion energy in this article. More millions to billions will be needed for research and experimentation. To what avail? Will it be ready to stop the climate change catastrophe that is surely coming in a much tighter time frame than the number of years to perfect this science and build the power plants in countries around the world?

To us, the only answer is to go for green power. See our article, The Obama Factor and Nuclear Proliferation. We believe in Green Energy Partnerships not the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership set up by the Bush administration. GreeNEP not NEP.