above, Jesus Pantocrater, below, detail of cherub, by Ernst Fuchs
...the flat expanse of the Interplanetary Tourist Embarkation Base stretches toward toward the city. The shuttle is being launched at night because the power drain on the fusion plant is minimal. ...millions of leftover kilowatts pour into...powerful laser cannons... Searing beams of light shoot forward, converging on...the ship. Slowly the shuttle begins to lift, pushed...by a thick shaft of fusion-generated laser light. Fusion power has had a most stunning impact upon life by this year 2035. By the mid-1980s, the imperfections had finally been squeezed from the fusion system. By the 1990s...the first full-scale fusion test facility was built near our city.
The Business of Fusion, by R. B. McColm
"The idea up until now has been to make fusion engineering harder and physics easier, so that we could study the fundamentals of the physics involved. But now is the time in fusion when we must make the job...easier for the engineer, so that we can create power plants that are simple enough to build commercially. Over the past ten years private development in fusion has reached $15 million a year...the Department of Energy's $400 million annual fusion budget... High-tech giants like Grumman Aerospace, McDonnel Douglas, and TRW are operating government fusion labs... Most fusion experts project that a mature fusion economy will develop by 2050. ...will be necessary to maintain a stable U.S. economy... ...fusion will enter the energy mix in about 2020... Twenty years later...the first true fusion reactors will be on line, generating nearly 15 percent of all the energy society requires. ...the theory of throwaway Tokamaks and small fusion reactors dominates discussion among private futurists. ...Dr. Bussard's Riggatron...will be fueled with a gas after initial ignition... ...of Fusion Energy Corporation, in Princeton...the...idea...of...positive ions...injected by a particle beam into a magnetic field where they mix with electrons and fuse. ...will be able to use...nonradioactive...lithium and boron. ...the small reactor would...produce enough ethyl alcohol to run every car in the United States.
Fusion Politics, by Daniel S. Greenberg
He called for a $1 billion-class experimental fusion power system. An engineering test facility, he said, should be in operation by 1987, with a demonstration "on line before the year 2000."
Interview, Robert Bussard, by K. C. Cole
Is there really a fusion "establishment...
Everything is funded by the Department of Energy establishment... Our first commercial plant will be running in 1987...
Divine Alchemist, by Thomas Weyr
...painter Ernst Fuchs... ...thinks that some of his own apocalyptic paintings have a quality of the New Age he sees coming. In Fuchs' view, art should turn to the exploration of supernal events like the "shining cloud" that bore Christ to heaven.
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