Well…I think I’ll talk a little about science this morning since I haven’t been able to find a political topic yet and I just put some chicken in the oven for lunch…yesterday, there was a news story that would be surprising if it’s true since true fusion has been 40 years away since I was a kid…so this story said that the National Ignition Facility, that uses lasers to compress a deuterium pellet to trigger fusion, got almost 20% more energy out of the reaction than they put into it….the holy grail of fusion reactors across the world…oh, I probably should explain what the difference is between fusion and fission reactors…in fission, atoms of uranium are split and the resulting heat is used to turn a steam turbine to create electricity…while in fusion atoms of deuterium are squeezed together by lasers or giant magnets to form a new element which also releases energy and that is what happens in the sun…one of the reasons that fusion is being pursued all over the world is that it is much more clean than fission with no leftover radioactive waste that piles up from the fission reactors currently in use….so the reporting has been breathless about this one event since it was the first time that more energy came out than went in to the start the reaction…but I’ll reserve judgement until they make the announcement tomorrow and the data is peer reviewed….more later….