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I thought of the spinning idea, but the problem is that mass inertia in the plasma wiffleball interior is a very small force when compared with the electrostatic forces. Consequently the rotational velocity would need to be huge to give the smoothing effect, and any irregularity in the magnetic fiel...

MSimon has provided a place where political discussion can continue. As I am not American I don't wish to weigh in to the Sarah Palin / Dem / Rep / fillInTheBlank debate. But I also would not like Talk Polywell to lose its reputation because of a run of ranting on political issues. Joe Strout has th...

Hello Bob, I expect that right now the EMC2 folks are in the thick of reports and discussion about the results of their experimental work. The verdict from the Navy as to continued funding may well be contingent on that report. The team will probably have little time to eat and sleep, let alone answ...

This entire discussion is NOT really appropriate for this area, let alone for this website. At the very least it ought to be moved to the "General" area. Unfortunately, people sometimes get off topic, and then things get carried away. I am herby calling on one of the moderators to somehow get this ...

Welcome John. At least you're "in" now.

Regards,
Tony Barry

The review process is not enabled with God-like powers, so it might be wrong on "things". But the process itself is all good. More review, the better, I think. If the review provides any answer, it will show either - the polywell **cannot** work because of physics reasons - the present design does n...

Much smaller than WB6; though the exact dimensions are not available to my knowledge. A picture of WB6 is available on the EMC2 web page, and if you consider the coil dimension is 300mm, you should be able to deduce the chamber dimensions from that. I estimate it is over a metre diameter. Regards, T...

Thank you Tom. I was hoping publication would not be deferred due to DOD restrictions.

Regards,
Tony Barry

Patience is a virtue which I find in short supply, both for myself and others.

However, it is needed.

(Return to chanting mantras ... "Hurry up O Rick, hurry up O Rick ...)



Regards,
Tony Barry

Hello Betruger, Difficult situation. If your correspondent has really got a good idea, and has solved many of the problems, then he should get in touch with venture capitalists ... universities often have commercialisation departments who will help in this area. However the net is awash with people ...

Hello scareduck, The thread on what is or isn't science always applies. **especially** applies here, where the onus of proof is on us and we have not got a lot of answers. While we may move forward, awaiting experimental results, we have to recognise that neither blind faith nor bluster will do us a...

Hello tombo, Your slingshot idea was used by (among others) missionaries in Ecuador in the 1950s (read about Jim Elliott, "Through gates of splendour"). They found that the tethered object moved to the centre of the circle of turn, and became almost motionless while the plane orbited around it. The ...

Hmmm. I'll back a calculation over an intuition any day. The calculation is at least tangible, reducible to components which can be tested and checked by others, and discussable by those interested. Intuition is perilously close to religion (God said it is this way, I believe it, and that settles it...

I've been mulling over icarus's and Indrek's images for some time. It seems that the lowest containment field strength points are at the point and line cusps where they intersect with the "imaginary" superconducting sphere. If I understand it aright, these points would represent the places where spe...

Hello Art, I would ask you to continue your investigations into the theoretical underpinnings of polywell. While I do not have the physics knowledge as yet to comment meaningfully, never-the-less I think that (in the absence of experimental results) the theoretical investigations are eminently worth...