{"id":5155,"date":"2005-06-25T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5155"},"modified":"2005-06-25T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T21:57:07","slug":"letter-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5155","title":{"rendered":"LETTER OF THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the always reliable readers of the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050625\/OPINION10\/506250309\/1004\/NEWS\">Wilmington News-Journal<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nuclear fusion is another energy-generating resource<\/p>\n<p>Harry Themal&#8217;s column was a brilliant insight into energy and waste problems that are not being solved. The waste problem is a state responsibility, which only pressure from the citizens can solve. But the energy problem is a federal responsibility resting mainly with the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Themal didn&#8217;t mention fusion power. The same nuclear reaction that occurs in a hydrogen bomb is used in a controlled reaction to produce large amounts of heat, which could generate electricity. The Department of Energy has spent many years and billions of dollars trying to develop a plasma process, using very high temperatures in a devise called a tokamak, which has not worked. DOE physicists have a parochial prejudice against any other competing process, and will not grant money for other variations of fusion.<\/p>\n<p>William C. Hickey, Wilmington<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like what?  <a href=\"http:\/\/world.std.com\/~mica\/cft.html\">Cold fusion<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the always reliable readers of the Wilmington News-Journal: Nuclear fusion is another energy-generating resource Harry Themal&#8217;s column was a brilliant insight into energy and waste problems that are not being solved. The waste problem is a state responsibility, which only pressure from the citizens can solve. But the energy problem is a federal responsibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}