Link: Apple may turn to induction for iPod docking, charging. Apple Inc. is attempting to develop a revolutionary dock connector for handheld consumer electronics gadgets that will allow the devices to be docked in any orientation and, in some cases, charged wirelessly.

Link: Napa Valley Register | The Family Computer: Will streaming movies be next big thing?. It’s true the pace of change has accelerated, but this kind of  change is nothing new. Three big trends formed around Marconi’s invention of radio, Edison’s invention of motion pictures and Philo T. Farnsworth’s invention of the cathode ray tube,

Link: People’s Daily Online — China’s "artificial sun" discharged in transnational experiment. China recently conducted a transnational remote controlled plasma discharge experiment with its new generation "artificial sun" device, formally known as an Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which has been built in Hefei, Anhui province. Through a dedicated data network, experts from General Atomics

Link: The Strange Case of Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan. The Money Quote: It would appear that Purdue University has done a thorough and careful investigation of claims of research misconduct in the case of Rusi Taleyarkhan, the scientist who claims to have used sonoluminescence of deuterated acetone to produce table-top-scale fusion. In the spirit of scientific

You can’t live on $428-million/yr, but it’s a start… Link: Department of Energy Requests $24.3 Billion for FY 2008 Budget. DOE’s Office of Science budget also incorporates $428 million in funding for basic research in nuclear fusion, including the international fusion energy experimental reactor agreement, known as ITER;

….so the Chinese are thinking about going to the Moon. to get Helium-3 for their nuclear fusion experiments. Today the Chinese are reaching for the moon. The first step, the launching of an unmanned lunar orbiter, is tentatively scheduled for April 17. A three-man mission will orbit the Earth later this year, and a spacewalk

Link: Announcements – Inertial Electrostatic Fusion systems can now be built. After re-posting a link to Dr. Robert Bussard’s lecture at Google last fall, I received a blog-comment asking where in our forums Dr. Bussard’s recent papers on the subject might be found.  I am posting the link above in answer to this post.  There

There’s an article floating around the web this week about how China intends to build the world’s first "artificial sun" "The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan

Pictured at the top of these pages is a man named Philo T. Farnsworth. On the left is the difficult thing that he invented in the 1920s. You are probably familiar with it. It’s called "television." On the right is the "impossible" thing that he invented in the 1950s.. You are probably less familiar with

                           Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 This is not your father’s fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion;