I should also note that I unfortunately haven't been able to find any other confirmation of the story yet. Nothing's showing up on Google News... I would've assumed that something like this would've at least generated a press release.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">giovanni santost</b> <<a href="mailto:santostasigio@yahoo.com">santostasigio@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi everybody,</span></div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm Giovanni, I have just joined the list, very interesting conversations....
</span></div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Well, even if I'm a physicist, I'm not an expert in nuclear fusion (my field is gravitational waves) but ITER mentioned in the article reference in Neil's email is the international effort (and really the only game in town) to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, and there are good reasons why it costs billions instead of millions... Bussard is legit but he seems cut off from the fusion community somehow (he has his own private scientific firm). He is not a crackpot but maybe he is a loose cannon or something....
</span></div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">but controlled nuclear fusion would be really nice so good luck to him....(and Schwarzenegger).</span></div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span> </div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">See:</span></div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span> </div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard</a></span></div><span class="q">  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span> </div>  <div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span> </div>
  <div>  <div><br><b><i>Neil Halelamien <<a href="mailto:neilh@caltech.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">neilh@caltech.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:</div></div>  </span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">
<span class="q">The article is pretty scant on details and I haven't been able to find outside confirmation yet, but it sounds like
 it could be interesting:<br><br><a href="http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/nextnews7.24b.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/nextnews7.24b.html 
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