Long Now Brussels meetup - July 02010

FoAM will host the Brussels meeting of The Long Now Foundation, whose aim is "to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."

Our monthly discussion about long term thinking begins with a look at Ed Moses' recent talk on the National Ignition Facility (based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA) and the ongoing effort to achieve fusion power generation. It's a promising area of scientific exploration. Obviously having viable alternatives to fossil fuels in the near-term is critical. Trouble is that wind, solar, etc. are presently quite capital-intensive and difficult to scale. Fusion is promising, (if it proves to be achievable).

Ed Moses' talk: http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/jun/16/clean-fusion-power-decade/

LIFE [Laser Inertial Fusion Engine]: https://lasers.llnl.gov/

RSVP & Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/longnowbrussels/calendar/13916923/