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by tombo
Mon Mar 16, 2015 2:17 am
Forum: News
Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
Replies: 186
Views: 171553

Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR

I like it. I see 5 coils making 2 pairs of cusps with their equatorial loss planes bent & joined together so that none of the field lines lead to the outside. Then I see 2 coils helping bend the end-most loss plane over to meet its partner. Then I see the 2 end coils squeezing down on the axial loss...
by tombo
Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:56 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: New Post is up.
Replies: 9
Views: 8663

Re: New Post is up.

Awesome!
Thank You!

We always knew that joule heating would be a major problem.
by tombo
Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:15 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
Replies: 632
Views: 269047

Yes, Inventor has a much better 3D interface. But, it still sucks when dealing with non-rectilinear 3D stuff. The part I really like is that I can drive the parameters from an excel file, so after the model is done I can change the sizes of the features, like thickness & bend radius. I use the AutoC...
by tombo
Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:30 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
Replies: 632
Views: 269047

Sweet! Thank You RJ for taking up the slack. I had to stop when my new job started taking up all my time My original inspiration for the one-pass coils was the bent copper tubing coils with water flowing through them that I used to make for high powered induction furnaces. They handle huge currents...
by tombo
Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:14 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Mutual Magnetic Repulsion Forces in the Magrid
Replies: 14
Views: 14888

This is an important number to nail down. I got partway there with the numerical model I was building based on Kiteman's work. But, new job has sucked up all time that might have gone into it for many months now. Sorry. I think that this problem would be relatively easy to model ( at much lower curr...
by tombo
Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Chemists warming to Cold Fusion.
Replies: 63
Views: 31049

In and near Gallup NM where I lived for a while there are coal mines and uranium mines near each other.
The local miners said that the rock layers containing coal and uranium were very closely related geologically.
by tombo
Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:07 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Is There an Optimal Size for Magrid Casings?
Replies: 339
Views: 166947

Ummm
Maybe I'm being obtuse but...

The grid is positive.
The electrons are attracted to it and neutralize this charge.
This returns energy to the system how?
by tombo
Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Forced vaccinations made easy
Replies: 16
Views: 9320

MirariNefas wrote: Biology is more complex than the physics problems being tackled today. Get over it. What may be the most complicated object known to Mathematics is obtained from the simple iterative equation z_n+1 = z_n^2 + const. An example of the complexity of biology: http://multimedia.mcb.ha...
by tombo
Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:37 am
Forum: Design
Topic: Is There an Optimal Size for Magrid Casings?
Replies: 339
Views: 166947

The details of the X-Cusp field above were done on a planar model ie 2D. I am now working on modeling it in 3D. Kiteman thought it would squeeze the field tighter inside the sphere of the Magrid and avoid field nulls at some distance inside the Magrid. Here is where I am on the 3D Bfield model of th...
by tombo
Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:05 am
Forum: Implications
Topic: Polywell transportation: how small?
Replies: 48
Views: 75297

If you have 1000 Watts of heat and you can get 75% of it out as work you get 750 Watts = 1 HP
by tombo
Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:23 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Polywell transportation: how small?
Replies: 48
Views: 75297

At 75% efficiency 1kW = 750W = 1 HP
by tombo
Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:21 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Fresh horses
Replies: 39
Views: 55198

Could FAMULUS get funding (and a degree on the side) by finding a university and professor to take him and his project under his wing as a thesis project? What he is doing is masters degree level work at the very least. The level of enthusiasm shown is seldom seen and a big selling point. One advant...
by tombo
Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: Central Banks As A source Of Financial Instability
Replies: 9
Views: 5364

Well, from what I understand the US is one of few countries that does not have a central, government owned, national bank that prints their money, right? ... This little piece of paper in my pocket says "United States Federal Reserve System". I think that qualifies as a Central Bank in spite of som...
by tombo
Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Wunderjahr?
Replies: 19
Views: 12088

Warning! Speculation Ahead! The positive and negative possibilities are mind boggling. Fortunately the long development time will give us some time to consider them. We're probably looking at the end of the century time frame. Peta Hz clock rates. Molecular scale memory storage units. Who writes the...
by tombo
Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Wunderjahr?
Replies: 19
Views: 12088

Wunderjahr?

WunderJahr 2010? The 2/27/2010 Issue of Science News blew me away. It may go down as being as pivotal as the 1905 issue 17 of Annalen der Physik. The exception is that the discoveries are presented by different groups. 1. A working quantum computer is announced. (It calculated correct hydrogen elect...