Talk-Polywell.org

No idea beyond what is in there bios. Intersting location for the company however. Scott's Valley? It's nestled in the Santa Cruz mountains just south of the Bay Area. It's one of those places I drive by on my way to Santa Cruz or Monterey....

Just a snippet, but interesting at that: Last Middle East Power Standing - An interesting strategy that exemplified the "go wild" nature of such drills, which serve as important brainstorming technique. This strategy's summary describes "An R&D long shot (in this scenario, Polywell fusion ) pays off...

Surprised I hadn't seen this up here yet:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/emc2-b ... nd-of.html

To small to comment on?

From ASPW 2010, via the Tau Zero Foundation blog:

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=15695

A brief mention and no links to presentations, unfortunately.

I know that Joe Strout has noted that author Karl Schroeder has mentioned polywell on his site in the past, but I just came upon his mentioning it in a short story of his called The Hero . The setting is his Virga universe of which I've only read the first book and this short story. It's the first m...

Still, I'm doubtful about commercial interests' ability to develop HLVs, and I'm also doubtful about building something like a VASIMR powered human exploration vehicle using medium lift launches. I had been wondering about what the future of a > 100mT HLV would be, given that there's an HLV R&D lin...

I remember seeing this around here, but I could be mistaken. I have seen it reported on some space exploration blogs I haunt. This along with NASA's recent change in focus and Administrator Bolden giving VASIMR as an example of upcoming technologies to be funded and demonstrated at the Feb 6th press...

It will be interesting to what the "eventually deeper into the solar system" in the following exerpt will entail: The goal is to set up a multiyear, multi-billion-dollar initiative allowing private firms, including some start-ups, to compete to build and operate spacecraft capable of ferrying U.S. a...

Do you think the "AGW Discussion" forum would be free of politics? It wouldn't. No, I do not believe that. I understand that there are not only topics that have overlap with other forums, as I commented above, but topics that also cross my proposed additional forums. This is just a given, especiall...

BenTC wrote:btw, is this what you are looking for...
viewtopic.php?p=19359&highlight=hyperv#19359

Sweetness. Thanks!

Ouch:

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/gravwaves.pdf

I'm piggy-backing on this post here to advocate adding more forums (or General forum sub-sections) primarily as an aid to browsing the General forum archive. I had been thinking about this for a while as I'm usually one for explicit categorization of topics (you should see my favorite's folder). I c...

But to me, any potentially impacting asteroid is also a potential candidate for mining. You already have an Earth fly-by. You need a delta-V to effect a rendezvous, and then enough energy to take it apart so that the pieces can be refined... somewhere... I second that! Wonder if an terrestrial mini...

We really don't know much about asteroids, structurally, which makes blowing them up uncertain. Going slightly off-topic, this fact has me thinking that the White House will base it's vision for NASA next month on the "flexible path" recommendation made by the Augustine commission. Working on the i...

All this talk of China and nukes is silly. If China invaded Taiwan, even a hawkish president would limit us to providing air and sea support. I think it's particularly silly as it would sound the death nell for China's economy right now as they're so wrapped up in the flux of the US dollar. Look to...