Talk-Polywell.org

Forgive me for saying so, but I've always had a problem with this FOIA. Ultimately Rick Nebel and his team are the only ones who can provide the information you guys want -- but if they're having to spend time doing this, then they aren't spending time getting the durned thing working. This is just ...

Rick said they wanted to get confinement from okay to good, and confirm scaling. So what chance is there that this might provide sufficient budget to try to address both issues, not just one or the other? To confirm the scaling, couldn't Dr. Nebel increase in size by something like 33% or 50%? That...

FAMULUS wrote:kraisee: got a link for that mega chamber?

I haven't got any specific contact info. If I were trying myself, I'd probably start off contacting the Office of Procurement:

http://procurement.ksc.nasa.gov/

--Ross.

Just FYI, one of the large Apollo-era vacuum chambers from the Operations & Checkout building is currently sitting in Kennedy Space Center's disposal yard. It used to be used to create a vacuum for testing the pressurization of the old Apollo CSM and Lander's before they were stacked on their launch...

There has been no announcement of further funding. Assuming for a second that there is something here, and also assuming that the next step of the research were to go 'secret' as a DoD project, what are the options for a commercial line into this technology as well? You, MSimon, were looking into t...