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Since the p-B11 fusion product alphas are expected to make about 1000 passes before exiting the magrid, coaxing most of them out through one weakened coil seems feasible. It's my understanding that it's the hydrogen and boron-11 fusion fuel ions and NOT the He4 fusion product ions that are the ions...

Something to keep in mind -- if any fusion effort succeeds, all fusion efforts should benefit. The first technical success in a technology is very often not the one that ends up being most useful or commercially successful, so a lot more VC money could start flowing if economic fusion power product...

". . .with tens of thousands of miles sticking straight out the opportunity to discover new modes of disaster are intriguing." Heh! This is why I can't even remember the numbers and to be fair, not all designs use an asteroid. There's more than one, but none of them make any sense. BTW, I think Dr....

Are you familiar with Dr. Woodward's Mach-Effect conjecture and the experimental data-set backing it? It's by no means fully proven yet, but this body of work is far more real than "magic space pixes"... Hey Paul! Cool to see you are still lurking arround here! I am glad that the politics here did ...

I'm always happy to be corrected. Show me a reasonable launch cost for hundreds of miles of cable and I'll retract my sentiments. All of the rational I have seen in support of the concept has again relied upon the notion that launch costs will be driven down by their volume. If you tell me the enti...

We need propellantless propusion and as long as dread, dopey engineers hang out for less, we won't see funding for what's real--the M-E thruster. We need magic space pixies, to wave their wands! Woohoo! Are you familiar with Dr. Woodward's Mach-Effect conjecture and the experimental data-set backin...

Has anybody on this list seen EMC2's WB-7 Final report? I understand that it has some very interesting data that may clarify where EMC2 and the Navy are heading with the new WB-8 reactor.

Are you asserting that you have said anything significant about inertia? As I have said, I do not think you fully understand what you are agreeing to, if you accept this is self-consistent, and you can't see where it leads. But let me just presume to disagree about what we may or many not have mean...

The question of course is why inertial mass = gravitational mass. I think Higgs is the fashionable answer. LHC may tell us for sure pretty soon. (It sure is an exciting couple years ahead, isn't it?) Which reminds me: will anything coming of out LHC impact Mach effect theory? If so, what if any pre...

Give up the purse swinging. I called it exactly like it is. Taking my off-hand comment of the rough dynamics as premise for debate of the exact physics of it is ludicrous. 1) I'm only pointing out the very rough dynamics of it, and 2) that I might be wrong. Said so explicitly. And 3) gave direction...

Everything is derived from faith, whether the universe was created in a big bang, or an act of God (where did he come from?) we are forced to take it on faith. No. This is quite incorrect. There are self-standing axioms that would be true for any one, any where, in any type of universe, and whether...

I've been interested in making a thruster. The problem is, while I've found a powerpoint that talks about how to build the actual thruster itself(iron ring thing cut up with capacitors glued in, basically), there's nothing about control, or the axillary stuff I'm sure is needed. I'm sure that one o...

Folks: Thanks much for the offer of financial support, but until there is an unambiguous demonstration of the M-E, I cannot accept it. Jim Woodward has not performed an unambiguous demonstration of the M-E yet. I haven't done it yet either, though my 5.0 milli-Newton test article came close IMO. How...

Tom: What, you don't relish being zapped by an auto HV distributor transformer at 35kV every morning? And you call yourself an electrical engineer! :) But seriously, my e-Bay procured HP-4275A LCR meter indicates that the capacitance of these N4700 caps goes UP at 2 & 4 MHz referenced to their 1.0 k...

Folks: The Mach-2MHz M-E test article used two, Vishay/Ceramite 500pF at 15kV, Y5U high-k ceramic caps with an e-r = ~5,000 and a DF= ~2% at 1.0 kHz or a Q= 45 at 2.15 MHz where some of the data for the Mach-2MHz was taken which consistently demonstrated ~1.0 milli-Newton thrust signatures. As noted...