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New Paper for the 46thEPS Conference on Plasma Physics in Milan:
http://ocs.ciemat.es/EPS2019ABS/pdf/P2.1102.pdf

Starlink conference call reports on Twitter right now. All I can say is "Holy Smokes!" Between Starlink and Starship, SpaceX is innovating at a pace that is unprecedented in the space business.

Taliesin wrote:I understand the frustration and the intent of this reply, but rarely do I see a reply like this on Talk-Polywell.

Guess you have been avoiding the General section
I don't go there anymore.

Looks like there is a small (and very young) Canadian team that is working on Polywell related research. Not sure what they will achieve, but given the lack of Polywell related news, this is at least somewhat refreshing:
https://www.progressivefusionsolution.com/

Is from last November. I think it was posted here before. I don't like it much. It seems overly pessimistic and gets some technical details wrong. E.g. the assumption that a machine capable of achieving scientific break even would cost several hundred million is unfounded. Helion is building a full ...

I also noted recently that China has been trying to encourage foreign fusion research teams that have innovative confinement concepts to share their technology. IIRC, there was a prize with a few million bucks set out. Not sure what became of it and I wonder how many fusion companies would bite on s...

This is pretty cool. They have been making steady progress, though they are still behind their original schedule. Things will get really interesting once the HTSCs get put in. Melanie Windridge indicated recently that things with research on that is going quite well. They are still a top contender f...

Great for spherical tokamak designs like the ones by Tokamak Energy.

Well, the FuZE prototype is really small. The expensive part is the experiments right now. Once they worked out the kinks, these things should be really cheap to mass produce. May be not as cheap as a fusor, but they will (hopefully) produce a lot more neutrons.

Small article about the Sheared Flow Stabilized Z- Pinch. Not much new in it, but still worth linking:
https://newatlas.com/nuclear-fusion-bre ... nch/59257/

Personally, I am not so sure that Tri-Alpha or General Fusion will be around in five years given my spidey sense of high tech hand-waving going on... I agree that these two could potentially falter. I am concerned about the way their reactor designs have become more and more complicated (and bigger...

Brief Power Point presentation on the progress Helion made under ARPA-E Alpha:
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default ... irtley.pdf

Short presentation by Uri Shumlak at least year's ARPA-E Alpha Meeting: Demonstrated Z- Pinch stability at 250 kA and continuous neutron production. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/ALPHATeamPanel1_UriShumlak.pdf Also, they published a paper with their latest results: https://arxiv.org/...

Very cool!
Have been waiting for this to come online. Unfortunately the slides are very brief

Depends on the CPU. Also, why not run it on the GPU?