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"One question -- would a Polywell reactor be susceptible to an EMP [attack]? If so would it wreck it, or just put it out temporarily?" It would just shut the thing down and cause some (probably costly, but reparable) equipment damage, like any other power plant. There's no way any attack can make a...

They're wrong. In the first place, 100 kWf is almost certainly too small for net power, meaning 100 kWe would be a very inefficient reactor. In the second place, even neglecting neutrons and/or neutron absorption gammas, 100kWf gives you 18 W of gamma radiation, which at 5 metres from the core is m...

So, d'you have to get a gay speed-date to attend the lecture? Could be an issue :? ... Me confused. (not that I've got anything against gays - I'm sure I'd be a lesbian if I was a girl!!) You can also buy separate tickets for the Nerd Nite only. ;) I'm wondering whether somebody already made a talk...

200 fps, and seems to asymptote twd ~160fps or so after a couple of minutes once everything's gained some speed. I don't see a lot of purpose in this anyway (other than the programming challenge to understand the physics). In steady state, the whole image is supposed to be the same all the time, ri...

[I'll say it just once more!] :)] Any tiny cyclotron should be able to generate energies high enough for fusion. A synchrotron would put too much energy onto an ion. Remember - 10Mm/s is the fastest velocities you will need for fusion, and cycltrons are often tuned to run around the industrial 13MH...

taking with them the energy you invested in them with so much love and caring. Bzzzzz! You lose. That energy has got to go somewhere, though. If the stuff hits the wall, part of it can be recovered through the cooling circuit and waste heat recovery (e.g. Stirling engine), but the entire endeavour ...

So, 93143, if a device could be configured such that a non-fusing scattered ion is recovered back into the beam and carries on around again (and repeats as many times as necessary before it gets to fuse), then you'd give such a device some serious attention as a possible means forward for fusion? H...

The microwaves will be absorbed by the contents of the reactor, it will go into adding thermal energy, which would likely feed negatively into any mechanisms that are trying to promote non-maxwellian behaviour and to keep the electrons cool, these matters would be negatively impacted. Hum, water-ba...

Do not worry about any ions at relativistic speeds. They will be going too fast for fusion if they get relativistic. For example, a 40Mrad/s rotation speed (6MHz) corresponds to a magnetic field of only 0.4T for protons, yet were those protons to be held in orbit at a radius of just 0.25m then they...

kunkmiester wrote:Gravitic containment. Use Hiem's theory to build a "gravitron" to contain the plasma, rather than a magnetic field.

And make everything around it fall into the reactor? Not very practical.

A few speculations. I have seen a video of a US launch of an intercept missle (THAAD?) that spiraled upward for several revolutions before streaking off for it's target. I don't know if this was for calibration purposes, sensing purposes, or used to disguise the launch point. During the THAAD testi...

Oh, one could have so much fun writing the space elevator disaster tale with this one ... It does not matter if I misunderstand the actual design, for surely Hollywood does not care as long as the special effects are great. Hey, come to think about it, I haven't seen a movie that does any Polywell ...

Does anyone have any idea what sort of masses we're talking about for GW-range DC voltage stepdown? I don't, but just to keep the ball rolling... If the alphas are really channelled along the magrid coil axes, use them to spin up six or more copies of something like this (scaled up) http://www.arcs...

Not to be interrupting here, gentlemen, but can we go back to the fundraising in Europe matter? Discussion of confinement surfaces is perfectly valid on another part of the boards.

Oh, and pulse isn't necessarily so useful, even if you could get a perfect sine wave, because the mean is still several hundred kV DC... And don't forget that those pulses will probably have currents of several kA, if not more. If you start switching that, any circuit with a line inductance of more...