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We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.
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Fusion
Nuclear
Slowing
Succeeded
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Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Done
Guy
Learning Experience
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History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
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Arise
Available
Method
Use
Material
Repeatedly
Shown
Uses
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The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
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Space
Aviation
Century
Globalization
Next
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There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
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Burning Fossil Fuels
Energy
Moon
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
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France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
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Energy
Fission
France
Perfect
Requirements
Safety
Significant
Achieved
Ours
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Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Space
Attractive
Elements
Fuel
Fusion
Helium
Hydrogen
Light
Nuclear
Permit
Ships
Speed
Approaching
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This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Jobs
Men
Dedication
Moon
Nuclear
Unwavering
Committee
Submarine
Un
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It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
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Galaxy
Millennium
Moon
Stewardship
Thinking
Usa
Assumes
Inherit
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When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Car
Energy
Gas
Heat
Pay
Percent
Waste
First Place
Gallon
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Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.
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Fusion
Hotter
Nuclear
Sun
Support
Surface
Temperature
Classified
Reaction
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I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.
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Department
Dollars
Higher
Investment
Million Dollars
Return
Million
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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Leadership
Just Do It
Moon
President
President Kennedy
Stewards
Best Good Must
Best Leadership Good
Exerting
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There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.
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Energy
Needs
Would Be
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Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Coal
Gas
Generator
Heat
Nuclear
Oil
Power Plants
Utility
Automobiles
Nearly
Cycle
Existing
Fired
Trains
Plants
Sources
Trucks
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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
Wilson Greatbatch / Inventor
Space
Travel
Achieve
Agree
Fission
Light
Nuclear
Speed
Chemical
Option
Energy Source
Limit
Near
Reached
Rocket
Scientists
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