STORY OF THE BOY WHO INVENTED TELEVISION
Continued from Distant Vision, page 299, chapter 30…Experiments on the Mark Three-Model .7 were continued during the summer of 1966, but these produced no significant progress. Many changes were made, but none produced the expected results. These disappointments probably contributed to Phil’s ever-worsening health situation, but he wanted to do whatever he could to prepare people for the changes to come. Phil was convinced when his fusion work was finished; the world was in for some big changes. I am sure that fusion was every bit as real in Phil’s mind as television had been during 1926 and 1927. There was simply no question in Phil’s mind that the fusor was going to work, and he talked frequently of the breakthrough that was only a few steps away and, he spoke of the enormous energy that would be at the disposal of all people on the face of the earth-and he always spoke in terms of how much fun it was going to be. Phil’s vision for the future was divided into two fields, life on earth, and outer space. On earth, Phil predicted fusion power would soon replace every source of energy presently in use. The most obvious benefit of fusion development would be the end of the pollution that fouls our skies from the burning of fossil fuels, and our streams of nuclear waste from the fission reactors in use today.
The energy contained in even a small amount of fusion-able material is so vast only a tiny amount would provide the power needs of an entire city and he often cited some calculations performed by Fritz Furth with engineers at Con-Edison, the New York City Power Company, indicating that all the power necessary to run a city the size of NY for an entire month could be produced by about a nickel’s worth of nuclear fuel; accounting for inflation, that amount is probably up to about a dollar by now? Phil predicted all forms of transportation would be radically altered, fusion engines would replace the internal combustion engines, and all forms of ground transportation would become electrically powered. New cars would come not with a refillable gasoline tank, but with a small energy unit, which would last longer than the rest of the car. Phil predicted the possibility of weather control and force fields powerful enough to “unwind,” tornadoes or divert hurricanes and a fusor-powered ship that could meet a hurricane at sea and erect a force field in its path powerful enough to divert it. Phil also envisioned the creation of “water domes,” that would permit the recreation of all four seasons regardless of the actual time of year.
At home, Phil expected that individual dwellings would all be fusion-powered, eliminating the need for power lines and said, a 50,000-kilowatt power plant would sell for around four hundred dollars! Given the vast power at our creative disposal, our homes would be different from what they are now-we might not even recognize them as homes. Phil stated more than once that homes might cease to be built of wood or brink and mortar, and would instead be formed from high-energy force fields powered by fusors. He predicted the end of waste-disposal problems, suggesting that each fusion-powered home would be equipped with its own sanitation facilities that would convert all waste to ash that could serve as fertilizer for yards and gardens. And, Phil described how fusion-era metallurgists would discover a whole new range of metal alloys, made possible by foundries that could cook their molten brew at a billion degrees. These new alloys would result in new materials that would enable great fusion-powered cities to rise from the deserts and oceans.
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