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Ah, thanks for parting my fog. That's an absolutely appropriate foreword looking designation for hopeful observers, such as myself. It caught such hold that I though it may have come from the researchers. Not the case, got it.

... Population control seems a sensible route, but as the more population you have, the more economic power and military strength you have, I don't see many countries actually wanting to do that.. Wholeheartedly disagree.. I believe the sensible route is a goal of 20B well fed actualizing People he...

~~$38Billion more spent on Crude imports before we know where we're going next with this; Dibs on October 15, 2008.

I wish Dr. Bussard never conceived of the WB-"100" designation. It implies that some hypothetical polywell of some specific size will produce 100 MW; which is an untested WAG. I realize Dr. Nebel wants to test with a full size machine, but I hope he doesn't go into this with any implication whatsoev...

I don't endorse the leglization of drugs, outside of prescription even in principle. I think a world where you can buy marujana, heroine, ecstacy and God knows what else over the counter at the Newsagents would be a terrible world! Tony Blair tried 24 hour pubs as part of the general insane liberal...

With the DD reaction (which I presume is being used in the WB-7), neutrons can be used to determine whether or not fusion is happening. Do we have any indication any neutron measurements were taken? I got the impression (from these boards) that The WB was the first hurdle and the one that was being...

jormungandr wrote: ... Anyway. I am hoping the total silence is a good thing. After all, if there was nothing to the Bussard reactor (No neutrons, etc) then someone would've said something by now.

Neutrons? I though he was checking th Wiffle Ball. I don't think Neutrons are even in the picture.

That's good to hear... So the way I'm understanding this is that essentially anybody who stands to lose from this technology spreading can't stop it. The only thing that can stop it from spreading right now, is one of the following. 1) It doesn't work from a physics standpoint. or 2) It can't be ma...

If the government wanted to shut things down, the best way would be to sequester both the emc2 staff and peer review panel, and have a false report put out showing the experiment as a total failure. It would have to be good enough to fool a tokamak researcher at the very least. That would give them...

TallDave, Is it more helpful to we wearing our energy spectacles rather than our particle spectacles? It seems the energy is hopefully retained even if charge is lost to the reaction area, such that electrons that do escape have little energy left and carry little energy away from the reaction area ...

All the public needs to see is a clear enough contrast between fusion or even tokamaks and polywell, for it to be undeniably not just a "nuke". We tend to underestimate the public around here. If aneutronic fusion were ever possible, it would be embraced by the general public until it got so prolif...

Why did China stagnate for millennia while Western Civ arose from the Enlightenment to take over the world in mere centuries? In a word, empiricism. Jared Diamond blames... parallel rivers. China was always culturally more monolithic than Europe. China had first shot at colonizing the rest of the w...

Assuming the BFR works, I really don't see how anyone with reasonable manufacturing capabilities can be prevented from making these things. The BFR doesn't sound like it will require special materials. Copper wiring for the magnets, aluminum/steel for the vacuum chamber, simple computers for contro...

We're at peak oil no matter what we do short of massive extraction subsidy that would cripple the rest of the economy, deep offshore oil and Canadian sludge nonwithstanding. Production will fall off, and Oil cost will trend to more expensive. I'll bet though that with BFRs (or something that could g...

Keegan wrote: I think there are going to be a hell of alot of secrets kept when power outputs start approaching anywhere close to net power.

The Potential for neutrons will also cause alarm... and secrecy... That may happen long before net power is approached.