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Topics  Energy  /  Technology  /  Technology  /  Energy Can laser fusion cure the world's energy problems? By Don Sutton  | November 22, 2011

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility in San Francisco may be a year away from discovering a unique form of clean, cheap and practically inexhaustible energy.

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Recreating the sun's power from tiny fuel
NIF target chamber<strong style="color: #000000; font-family: tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;"></strong>This view from the bottom of the NIF target chamber shows the target positioner being inserted. Pulses from NIF's high-powered lasers race toward the Target Bay at the speed of light. They arrive at the center of the target chamber within a few trillionths of a second of each other, aligned to the accuracy of the diameter of a human hair. (Philip Saltonstall/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.)<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/>
As scientists hope to harvest the star-like energy released from fusion, they focus the world's largest lasers to manipulate atoms.
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Jumping the New York Times pay wall has become less a problem of circumventing technology than a moral quandary.
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Record laser shot success on the road to fusion energy By Don Sutton  | From  Business Briefings  | April 30, 2012   Imagine summoning 411 trillion watts of power—1,000 times more than the United States uses in any instant. Q&A with Dr. Ed Moses, Director of National Ignition Facility.
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American industry is preparing for the advent of laser fusion. Will Canada? By Don Sutton  | From  Business Briefings  | December 14, 2011   A new energy source is on the horizon that could be disruptive to Canada's energy industry. Are we ready for it?
Explaining an inexplicable world: It’s those pesky time travelers! By Don Sutton  | From  Business Briefings  | December 02, 2011   The disruption of experiments at Geneva’s Large Hadron Collider—by a piece of baguette, no less—is obviously the work of a future conspiracy.
Topics  Energy  /  Technology  /  Energy
Laser fusion research on track? By Don Sutton  | From  Technology  | December 01, 2011   A report is critical of the progress on laser fusion but the director of laser fusion energy disagrees.
Topics  Energy  /  Technology  /  Energy  /  Technology
Fusion energy plant already on the drawing board for 2030 By Don Sutton  | From  Energy  | November 28, 2011   Viable energy from laser fusion is still unproven but already planners are working on what a power plan would look like.
Topics  Energy  /  Technology  /  Technology  /  Energy
Recreating the sun's power from tiny fuel By Don Sutton  | From  Business Briefings  | November 24, 2011   As scientists hope to harvest the star-like energy released from fusion, they focus the world's largest lasers to manipulate atoms.
goldA Montreal company being investigated by Revenue Quebec as part of an alleged gold-refining tax scam denies any wrongdoing. More than 175 Revenue Canada agents conducted raids Thursday on residences, offices, accountants and bankruptcy trustees in the Montreal area. The agency says the scam allegedly involved a system of repetitive and false billing in the transactions involving more than 100 companies. Gold nuggets and bars are shown in this undated handout photo from Newmont Mining Corporation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Newmont Mining, File
Topics  Mining  /  Investing Seven Canadian gold stocks and one warning By Don Sutton  | September 13, 2011 If the markets can’t seem to get any worse, are gold equities still a reasonably safe place to be?
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Interactive: If hockey legends played in 2011... By Don Sutton, Trevor Melanson  | September 02, 2011 What if hockey legends of bygone eras were in the league now?
Topics  Strategy  /  Lifestyle
NY Times pay wall: Porous for a reason By Don Sutton  | From  Business Briefings  | June 17, 2011   Jumping the New York Times pay wall has become less a problem of circumventing technology than a moral quandary.
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MoneySense wins Canadian magazine of the year By Don Sutton  | June 11, 2011 Congratulations to the editors and writers of MoneySense magazine for winning Magazine of the Year at the 34th annual National Magazine Awards. MoneySense also won two other writing awards for "The Charity 100: Where is your money going?" and "Avoiding the Family Feud."
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