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- Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is Neuroscience Going To Become The Next Eugenics
- Replies: 26
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- Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:22 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
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I think that means we are now in agreement that whatever the actual Coulomb barrier energy is, it pales into insignificance when compared with the reality of the actual physical nature of the fusion tunneling and nuclear resonances? No. So, you're saying that the Coulomb barrier IS a dominant term,...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
The magnitude of the S(e) term is very disturbing from a theoretical physics standpoint. As an engineer, we take the actual data and work with it, why it is what it is isn't terribly important. I think that means we are now in agreement that whatever the actual Coulomb barrier energy is, it pales i...
- Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:46 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
I'm very familiar with the maths and the parameters that can be used to get an empirical calculation of cross-section. But it doesn't answer the question. There is a so-called 'astrophysical' factor thrown into an equation to make the thing balanced to that which is measured in experiments. Great! ...
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
On the coulomb barrier
The Coulomb barrier for two deuterons touching is around the 40 MeV range. If two such deuterons came together at that energy, though, they should smash each other up into bits - no fusion. The coulomb barrier energy is 480keV according to my NE Text, or 211 kEv in CM http://iopscience.iop.org.libp...
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:20 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
As I understand it, I don't know where this 400/200keV stuff has come from. The Coulomb barrier is quite easy: take the strong force of the nucleons involved; compare to the electric force of coulomb repulsion from the like charges. solve for equality, that's your coulomb barrier. Now modify it sli...
- Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:00 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
Most of my 'Gut' feeling is due to discrepencies, or rather variations in conclusions from the same lab and others. The D-D fusion has been shown to be greatest (per unit volume) in the center of one of their fusors, Your understanding is exactly opposite what they reported at the conference, which...
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
Wizworm. My 'gut' feeling was referring to the conclusion that the experment indicated beam target fusion. My statement about the classical fusion crossection needing to be modified by quantum mechanics is based on the following Text. As I said, your Gut is wrong. On this, also - the fusion rate de...
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
..... Egle, a recent graduate under Kulcinski, presented "Results frm the Six Ion Gun Fusion Experiment." The 300kV energies they reached managed to match up with Hirsch's results quite well - but only when they used unfocused ion guns. Detailed investigation of fusion regions showed only 2% of fus...
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ANS winter 2010 Conference
- Replies: 47
- Views: 13195
OK, I made it to the "Alternate and Nonelectric concepts" session, which was very cool. Kulcinski presented "Compact Inexpensive Fusion devices Using the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Approach." This was gridded fusors, and he did some detailed analysis of fusion locations and was able to get s...
- Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:53 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269039
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Chinese professor explains decline of the US
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9540
They sell us stuff at a discount. What is not to like? Ask the last guy to mine rare earth metals in the U.S. that question. Or the last textile manufacturer. Or the last electronic manufacturer. Buying things for a discount only works while the money holds out. If you aren't selling things too you...
- Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:16 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Near Spherical Magrid
- Replies: 217
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Dan, I see it more as a bucket with holes as well as evaporation and birds that drink. Flux in does not equal Flux out. It is loss mechanism dependant. Um... Gauss' law would say you're absolutely and totally wrong. There are no magnetic monopoles, so net flux through a closed surface must be zero....
- Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:36 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Superconducting Magnet Victory
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10938
- Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Superconducting Magnet Victory
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10938
Are you using a stock HTSC? Silver tape HTSC sandwich? We toyed with a sample but could never get Dr. Bussard interested enough to try building a magnet. Maybe history would be different now. I did manage to get a piece of it to levitate above a rare earth magnet, so I'm confident we had it in the ...