Project 3 Outline

Below is my Project 3 outline. The outline below may not resemble my final paper but I am using it as a launching pad for my project 3 paper.

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Introduction- Frame the Consequences

• Grabber
• Nuclear fusion has the potential to provide unlimited amounts of clean carbon dioxide free energy for generations but due to a lack of global long term vision its reserach has been severely underfunded.
• Thesis
• For the past 60 years, nuclear fusion research has been significantly underfunded due to political policy and a lack of long term vision. Due to this lack of funds, nuclear fusion research has been set back decades but new small startups are gaining ground on the lost research due to relatively small amount of capitol needed to create nuclear fusion now. One of these startups is Tri Alpha Energy and they are going to bring nuclear fusion to fruition.

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• Topic Sentence
• The United States Government's budget over the past 50 to 70 years has had decreasing amounts of funds set aside for nuclear fusion research.
• Evidence
• Need to insert a graph here regarding the downward trend of government spending on nuclear fusion. Also, need to insert quotes from one of my sources regarding how much money needs to be spent each year for nuclear fusion to become possible.
• Analysis
• Analyze the evidence above.

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• Topic Sentence
• The ITER global nuclear fusion project has been riddled with money concerns and a lack of funding since its conception in the late 90's but this has been a common occurrence for all large scale nuclear fusion projects.
• Evidence
• Speak about ITER's financial concerns in the mid 2000's and provide some evidence about abandoned nuclear fusion projects in the 70's specifically in the United States.
• Analysis
• Analyze the point that large scale projects have failed and have not yielded the data needed to make nuclear fusion a sustained energy source.

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• Topic Sentence
• Tri Alpha Energy and another half a dozen nuclear fusion energy startups have sprung up in the past decade with the intention of using enhanced computer technology to refine abandoned ideas about how to create a sustained nuclear fusion reactions.
• Evidence
• Speak about what Tri Alpha Energy and other startups are doing differently than other global government funded experiments. Also mention who is funding these startups such a the founder of Paypal and Microsoft.
• Analysis
• Analyze the difference between the large government expierments and what these nuclear fusion startups are doing.

Conclusion

• Concluding Strategy
• My concluding strategy is to speak about the positive consequence of funding nuclear fusion and that a way to fund nuclear fusion more effectively is to give money to these startups because they can work specifically on these various styles of nuclear fusion reactors.