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Dan, scalling, Bremstrahlung consideration, aneutronic fuels, etc. this is very interesting. But first you or someone else could not answer on one simple question: does two-stream instablity allow to Polywell the possiblity of running at high beta? The latest report from EMC2 on Polywell is here: h...

CERN Colloquium Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) by Francesco Celani, Yogendra Srivastava Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 16:30 to 17:30 (Europe/Zurich) at CERN ( Council Chamber ) A plethora of theoretical models have been proposed to explain s...

February 5 The JET Energy Solid State NANOR ‘IAP Cold Fusion/LANR Demonstration’ Has Just Successfully Completed Its First Week Continuously Operating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA).

The website doesn't seem a credible, reliable source, but surely MIT is?

Here we go, apparently Lasers plus a crushing magnetic field may make fusion more efficient.

Q4 2011 report is up. EMC2: During 4Q of 2011, EMC2 has modified the electron injectors to increase the plasma heating. The higher plasma density in WB-8 prompted the need for higher heating power. We plan to operate WB-8 in high beta regime with the modified electron injectors during 1Q of 2012. I...

Well, you might be able to do nuclear fusion with that, but I seriously doubt it will lead to a design for an economic reactor. I am not even sure you will get enough Q out of it to have a positive energy balance. "Fast ignition" ICF is the possible solution to this concern. http://en.wikipedia.org...

Fusion: X-ray laser zaps solid to 2 million degrees http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ju0U8b6AKS1Vfysf3VijKrGsCdfQ?docId=CNG.c356a5cf613f29da13737889b1700c51.121 PARIS — The quest to create nuclear fusion may have come a step closer when scientists heated solid matter to two million...

Skipjack wrote:DONT GO TO THAT LINK!
There is a virus on it!

I went to the link with no problems. That is because I am running Kubuntu.

MSimon wrote:Ever notice how the theory proposed keeps changing according to the objection?

Isn't that a reasonable description of the scientific method in a nutshell?

Possible. But problem is to get efficient ready-to-use power generator. Just checked some manufacturers websites, they don't offer steam turbines less than 100 kW power (and these ones require steam at 350+ degrees). Will try to check some other options, but in general - more than 3-4% from peltier...

This does not fit every single possible meaning of the word "repeatable", and I agree it does not fit the formal scientific evidence definition, but it does indeed fit a number of ordinary uses of the word "repeatable" But we are engineers and scientists here (well a lot of us anyway). We expect mo...

How do you know? AFAIK, a proton and an anti-proton have the same mass, the same rest energy. How do you know that there is not some weird mechanism in some peculiar circumstance that "flips" a proton to an anti-proton? This does not seem to me to be energetically impossible. If there was a natural...

Of course it might work, no one here claimed that we know for sure that it does not work. I can't agree with you here, from my reading, there are many people vigorously claiming exactly that. We are just rebutting arguments from people claiming that there are already evidences that Rossi device is ...

The energy required to create a Muon in the lab is in excess of 100 MeV. That amount of energy would not be available from fusion events, it is true, but it might be available, for example, if one kind of breakdown of an isotope of nickel happened to produce an anti-proton. Breaking down a nickel i...

This is repeatability, it is just not independently verified repeatability. Without independent verification you cannot claim repeatability. If I can make more than one device, and each device works on demand each time I switch it on, then it is repeatable. I have repeated it. This does not fit eve...