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The Helion company and TAE both had small government funding in the beginning. At some point someone must have made an argument that field reversed configuration is a good idea that should be tried. Yes, also Polywell had some small funding, the difference is not really in the "goodness" of the tec...

Unfortunately for what I saw in the last years the reality of public research grants is not so straightforward. Now you need to have some political backup or be part of very specific organizations/interests group, else you are left out fighting for the dimes with everyone else, unless you are lucky ...

https://www.emc2fusion.com/ EMC2 is working towards another go. There has been progress on the sims side. What do you all think about crowdfunding as a way to try and help them out? How could an effort like that get the word out to generate support? That is a great news! Crowdfunding might be a way...

ladajo wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 11, 2024 11:24 pm

Seems to be some permitting drama for flight 5, tied to a few folks (Anti-Elon Crowd?) stirring the EPA pot.

EPA is the American Taleban......

Betruger wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2024 3:39 pm

It does seem credible at a glance.

Yes it does.

Betruger wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 25, 2024 3:39 pm

USRobotics 2400 bps

Best part for me was the handshake sound

Was this approach covered? The idea is not new and the issue with this approach has always been the cost of water electrolysis. It seems like the guy is pretty confident, and it would be interesting to see some actual cost and power calculations spreadsheet for the H2 generation as the mentioned 1 ...

What wasn't mentioned in the paper, or maybe it was and I glossed over it, was whether or not the goal is a pulsed-mode or continuous operation. 300 kV is a lot of voltage to try and maintain over long spans time. My information for now is that it will be a pulsed 5kWe reactor Information on the MA...

Just finished reading the paper. Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you keep the ions from crashing into the cathode at the required KEs needed for fusion? Is that the breakthrough here, that the feedthroughs are such that the cathode voltage can be dialed high enough to prevent this? The b...

Thanks for posting this. It does not bring new information from what I already new bu is very nice to see everything collected in a single paper. And the new pictures makes it more easy to visualize the simplicity of the idea over which the Orbitron is based. The biggest take out from the paper in m...

crowberry wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:24 pm

They will soon submit three papers for publication.

Looking forward to those papers to clarify their prototype specifications and future targets, as for now they are making lot of claims that are not really feasible with existing coils technology.

Tibbar Plasma Technologies Headquartered In Los Alamos Files Patent For New Type Of Fusion Device https://ladailypost.com/tibbar-plasma-technologies-headquartered-in-los-alamos-files-patent-for-new-type-of-fusion-device/ If post polywell/EMC2 Nebel says so, his background has me paying attention. T...

Skipjack wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2024 4:44 am

Regarding Polywell. To the best of my (limited) understanding Horne Technologies has been pursuing a Polywell design?

Yes, but they didn't disclose much till now.

Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought (sic) Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life. I believe so. Polywell would greatly benefit from both technologies. The issue I see now is a lack of unders...

To the best of my knowledge the high voltage feedthrough is a statement on X from the Avalanache Energy corporation and no published artifact. The name Moein Borghei comes to my mind. Correct, Moein Borghei is the guy, and for what I know there is already several test objects that has been tested a...

[The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia. The potential well could not be created at a reasonable energy expense. No, the Richard Bowden-Reid research had little to do with the working mechanism of a properly designed and constructed Polywell. What they te...