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<div><span class="gmail_quote">There are abundant opportunities for profit in the Green revolution, but a regulatory structure needs to be put in place by government for the private sector to function within for investment risk taking to make sense for massive roll out of new "Green" technology. As I discussed in my previous post, if CO2 sequestration was mandated for coal energy production, with some sort of cost assessed for CO2 output, this would encourage the private sector to make profit off developing and implementing this technolgoy, and give energy technologies that do not emit as much CO2 an advantage in the marketplace, such as wind and solar.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">As things stand now, coal based energy production can emit CO2 with no penalites, and the energy technologies that do not emit as much CO2 are not being rewarded financially as much as they should for their more environmentally responsible energy production
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">mark seman</b> <<a href="mailto:fcs@moscow.com">fcs@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I understand some of the "benefits" of He3 are: less energy is lost in the form of neutrons that escape magnetic containment and the containment mechanism is less arduous for He3 reactors.
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<div>There appears to be some conflicting claims on the advantages of He3 fusion, given the quote below from the article at this web link that you offered for info on mining the moon for He3:</div>
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<div>There are, however, two drawbacks to its industrial use. First, the fusion of deuterium and helium-3 is very difficult to start and sustain, requiring roughly an order of magnitude more energy than the fusion of deuterium and tritium.
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<div>Anyway, till a practical affordable fusion reactor design becomes a reality, we are dealing with a theoretical technology that, at best, will not become widespread till the middle of this century. ITER in France will not be completed till 2016.
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>