Sexy ideas

A very interesting lecture by Matt Ridley at TED:



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A flying car

The Terrafugia Transition



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Fusion - the end of a gravy train?

Plentiful, clean power from nuclear fusion has been an elusive dream for decades. Billions have been spent pursuing it.

Apparently there have been some encouraging developments recently. Two of my favourite UK bloggers have been following them:

The Devil’s Kitchen has lots of background, commentary and links.
Roger Thornhill suggests a key fringe benefit of success:

Gore's face when that happens. I want a Gore-cam set up so we can see the moment his gravy train is shunted into the siding and lifted onto the flatbed headed for the scrap yard.

Now there’s something we can all get behind.