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drmike wrote:Maybe that's why the Navy is paying him.

Ya Think?!

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Mumbles
(AKA, CDR Breslauer, USN)

Most people don't realize the Japanese bombed Idaho. They attached bombs to balloons and sent them over to fall at random, but we barely noticed. They didn't really grasp how big and empty the United States is compared to their own country. IIRC, they were incindiary bombs intended to set fire to t...

I have to relate that I am enjoying this discussion - just because it is hitting too close to home! No, I am not looking for a PhD - but rather face the option to transition from the military in just under a year (I don't have to retire, but hit 20 years next summer). Much of the advice I hear for J...

Truckers would rather let their motors idle than shut 'em down. Why shut them down at all? If the "fuel" (hydrogen and boron - roughly available at any mud-puddle, right?) is so plentiful and inexpensive, why shut them down at all? Instead, invest in a small piece of infrastructure and have a plug ...

MSimon wrote:To get the details right you can trade money for time.

We always say, "You can get it fast, you can get it good, you can get it cheap. Pick Two."

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Mumbles

Mumbles,... Part of that of course is that the team breaks up. The associations of years dwindles.... O.K., I'm all for that. Having a close-knit group of smart individuals all focused on a single goal, and then transitioning to a myriad of different projects and efforts would/WILL be a let-down. L...

When all the problems get solved (well enough to deliver power) it will be a day of triumph and depression. Triumph for having made it work. Depression because, there will likely not be such a tall mountain to climb for quite a while. The journey is where the fun lies. The destination is the end of...

It might also be that the model is totally wrong. You nailed it. It might be wrong. Or, the 'other' model might be wrong... And your statement is applicable in so many different contexts! Gotta love it! [That is why we want to actually build a polywell prototype. That is why we want physical proof ...

Success of Polywell Fusion power would cut this again further. Ah, but the inter- and exo-atmospheric propulsion potential of a polywell fusion based ramjet/scramjet and rocket would make it so that the loop might never be required... Invest $30 Bn for an untried MEGA-Engineering project (is there ...

...the first ships to Mars can be far more risky. I certainly wouldn't mind being lost on the way to Mars and not have the ability to come back. Perhaps it would be better to say I certainly wouldn't mind accepting the risk that there was a single-point failure that could leave me lost on the way t...

...The pivot point is Congress and other scientists, that's where the consensus needs to be built, as long as we have good results out of Santa Fe later this year. If the Navy Manhattenizes WB7,... I agree with the comment about good results being required. But IMHO, the current target audience sho...

I was looking in the Library and I couldn't find the copy of "How to build 10,000 Polywells @ 1000MW power out/per unit. It is right between the recipe for unobtanium, and the map to the well of everlasting life... But they are in the process of updating their duodecimal card index, so we might fin...

Start up from no vacuum might take as long as 3 or 4 days given cook out rqmts. Are the cook out requirements to maintain sufficiently austere vacuum conditions? (Prevent out-gassing from materials inside the reaction space?) Would a "seasoned" reaction chamber be expected to require a shorter prep...

I have an open question on the start-up procedure for an eventual Polywell. What sort of energies will be required to start the reaction (light the fire) ? Specifically in terms of thinking about transportation - ships, railroads, vehicles (tractor-trailers have been discussed here before - I am not...

Maybe a better way of putting it would be that they see no point in ITER if WB-7 is a success. I really doubt they would jeapordize international relations over a " could, possibly be " (WB-7). Don't get me wrong, I am here because I believe the Bussard reactor has great potential. But the same tho...