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Personally, I'd like to see them *both* hit the grid. Even if DPF weren't able to produce 100MW in a single unit, I'd be more than happy if they were to build a 1MW one. Hell, I'll buy a 100kW generator and chuck it under the hood of my car! If DPF even works on smaller scale power devices, it cert...

Given a choice of jurisdictions, a multinational corporation can always successfully avoid most of its tax liability: But they don't have such a choice. In the link it says (very correctly) that corporations also end up double taxed. To tax them effectively would require a world government. No, it ...

I can just hear Brian in the age of the steam engine: Under the laws of physics as we know them an engine must work on heat differential, so an engine that requires cooling is essentially based on hokum. Not me, doofus!! It was Adam Rosenberg of the Obamugabe Science Directorate who made the object...

Excerpted from a current thread at the Focus Fusion site: I contacted the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) - the organization that was tasked with managing the ARPA-E grants. ... I wanted to see if they had any particular issues with aneutronic fusion. It does appear that they hold Aneutron...

Well, if PolyWell &/or Focus Fusion get going, economics would/should shut down virtually every fission power plant (not to mention coal and other thermal generating plant) on the planet on a much faster schedule than even the most aggressive political initiatives and decisions would. Anyone willin...

Well, if PolyWell &/or Focus Fusion get going, economics would/should shut down virtually every fission power plant (not to mention coal and other thermal generating plant) on the planet on a much faster schedule than even the most aggressive political initiatives and decisions would. Anyone willing...

The proposed 5MW FF DPF unit is rated on electrical output. Net thermal efficiency is estimated at 40-50%; since it is not a heat engine that's about the measure of heat needing to be vented or otherwise disposed of. It is very difficult to imagine, btw, a recovery system for that heat other than si...

Personally, I'd like to see them *both* hit the grid. Even if DPF weren't able to produce 100MW in a single unit, I'd be more than happy if they were to build a 1MW one. Hell, I'll buy a 100kW generator and chuck it under the hood of my car! If DPF even works on smaller scale power devices, it cert...

The FF 5MW is projected output current, representing the X-ray portion of the pulsed power, about 40% above unity, converted by a patented design of foils in a shell to current. The current directly derived from the alpha beam is to be returned to the capacitor bank for the next pulse, while the ele...

Then check out plasmons.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 171003.htm

Brian H, Bad link to Intrade. OTOH my mate thanks you for the Diabetes Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070708193019.htm Intrade: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/# Scientific - Focus Fusion ==================== Cooling the electrodes will not solve the erosion pr...

Actually, H3 is easy to get. Start with 10 tons of moon dust, ...

Well, amonia as the fuel then, if N15 is the best reaction in the CNO group. Not as easy to get as you need to seperate the isotope, but again the feed stock would be inexaustable, and aviable in a lot of places off the Earth (amonia ices on comets, frigid moons, etc.) and no need to wrestle with t...

Focus Fusion really sucks when it comes to setting off a fusion device, as it is designed specifically to be almost neutron-free (a few slow neutrons from side-reactions). As for the technology, it is pretty much irrelevant to getting big bangs from deuterium, etc.
Just IMHO.

And yet Polywell is getting funds and FF is begging. Evidently people with real money to spend have evaluated the chances differently. If it's really gone from a discussion on scientific merits and experimental performance to how the mob behaves, then you clearly seem to have accepted a move to the...