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by daveklingler
Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:54 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery
Replies: 21
Views: 8126

Re: Lyten - Lithium Sulfur Battery

Doubling their square footage with another 58,000 sq ft.

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/08/2 ... en-energy/
by daveklingler
Sat Aug 20, 2022 2:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: News story summarizing current contenders
Replies: 5
Views: 1687

Re: News story summarizing current contenders

Zap is mentioned at the end of the MIFTI paragraph. Amazing that Gates will spend a hundred or two hundred million just to get $50000 in free government money. Sigh. What a grifter. That's the first time I've heard of Helicity Space. I couldn't find anything of substance on their website. Looks like...
by daveklingler
Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: More Helion Energy news....
Replies: 359
Views: 283277

Re: More Helion Energy news....

I am disappointed in the IEEE publication Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/general-fusion-takes-aim-at-practical-fusion-power They did not even get the fact that the site for the Utility scale demo plant has been selected. Hm. I don't want to disagree with you but I didn't get any sense of negati...
by daveklingler
Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: "Final nail?"
Replies: 14
Views: 11221

Re: Polywell: "Final nail?"

I just noticed that the intro to the Wikipedia article says that research was conducted between the 1960's and 2019. My memory is that Bussard had the idea well before he retired, but didn't actually start researching it until he formed EMC. Of course, I can't refer to Wikipedia any more to check. W...
by daveklingler
Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:50 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453624

Re: EMC2 news

Just noticed a paper by Dr. Park, published back in December.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00074/full
by daveklingler
Tue May 19, 2020 1:48 am
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453624

Re: EMC2 news

I'm curious to know whether anyone has whether EMC2 is participating in DoE's cost-sharing private/public partnership program. It seems like a good opportunity to push things a little further along. Any news from Park in general? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/04/20/2020-08312/cost-s...
by daveklingler
Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192935

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

I do not know where people are seeing 10 million Isp. I read an Isp of ~360,000 seconds and 330 kN of thrust for the D+He3 configuration. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018APS..DPPC11163S Building on the ZaP, ZaP-HD, and FuZE projects, scaling studies will be presented of an SFS Z-pinch as a fusion...
by daveklingler
Sat May 11, 2019 1:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453624

Re: EMC2 news

Notably hidden among the budget items for NASA was a $100 million allocation to develop a nuclear thermal rockets. Does anybody know if polywell tried to get their fingers into that rice bowl? Not a community rice bowl, although there are other rice bowls specifically meant for the topic. That prog...
by daveklingler
Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:48 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192935

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Well now. The space propulsion paper with the exhaust velocities of 1 x 10^7 have just up and disappeared. Another paper has appeared in its place. Strange indeed! Looks like some of the slots were replaced with the Staged Z- Pinch. Might just be a scheduling thing. There is an older (2006) paper o...
by daveklingler
Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:50 am
Forum: News
Topic: Z-Pinch Renaissance
Replies: 208
Views: 192935

Re: Z-Pinch Renaissance

Well now. The space propulsion paper with the exhaust velocities of 1 x 10^7 have just up and disappeared. Another paper has appeared in its place.

That's pretty disappointing. Once again, the absence of any proof proves the conspiracy is real.
by daveklingler
Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:33 am
Forum: News
Topic: Go For New Navy Funding To Finish
Replies: 19
Views: 17073

Re: Go For New Navy Funding To Finish

Given that it's unlikely Trump will appoint physicists to the SecE position, as Obama did, and Hamm or anybody else Trump appoints will have even heard of nuclear fusion, I fail to see the logic here.
by daveklingler
Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:36 am
Forum: News
Topic: Boeing Laser Fusion Engine Patent Accepted
Replies: 11
Views: 11022

Re: Boeing Laser Fusion Engine Patent Accepted

D Tibbets wrote:The reactor is apparently not heating a working fluid, but directly producing fusion and fission product thrust.
"3. The propulsion apparatus of claim 1 wherein the thrust-producing medium comprises a hydrogen gas or a helium gas."
by daveklingler
Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: One more iec fusion devise.
Replies: 5
Views: 9749

Re: One more iec fusion devise.

Why do folks not have the common sense (and balls, sweat and tears) to actually try building something before shooting off their daft theories to bore everyone, and fill up the annuls of academic publications with their guff? Come now. There is a learning process. Be civilized. The writer or people...
by daveklingler
Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:32 pm
Forum: News
Topic: New Nuclear Engine Could Power Deep-Space Exploration
Replies: 15
Views: 8532

I wonder whether some of the dumped heat couldn't be harvested by conventional thermoelectric generators in a sort of hybrid design, saving weight in the heat sinks as well.
by daveklingler
Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:58 am
Forum: News
Topic: Science magazine article
Replies: 91
Views: 45693

Well, ahh, yes, the defense challenge aggregate has gotten worse since the cold war. Having a single predictable opponent was much cheaper and easier to manage than the current multiple smaller unpredictable asymetric ones. I would take the Soviets back over the current disaggregate mess. You would...