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drmike wrote:the front lines of the anti-nuke movement

IIRC you do Nuclear Engineering. Which side of the anti-nuke movement? Hopefully pro-nuclear

Ideally WB7 will satisfy the "harshest of critics." In reality, what are the harshest criticisms that could be levelled? If we assume (for the sake of argument) that WB7 is actually doing the same rate of fusion that Dr. Bussard thought WB6 was doing, is it the best the critics can do to resurrect o...

MSimon wrote:Absolute sensitivity is the greatest with a PM tube - something on the order of 1E6 electrons per photon detected. They are also very fast. In the order of 1 GHz bandwidth.

Thanks! Wikipedia was fairly unhelpful on this one.

So there was something that struck me ever since I read the WB6 test results. This probably reveals just how little physics I know, but if somebody could explain... Why are they using a photomultiplier? Would a regular CCD or shuttered device (I'm thinking of a SLR camera, but anything like that) no...

Quintessential, even? The legendary Fifth Element... Supposedly the MBDA Meteor's ramrocket uses boron-loaded solid propellant to triple the specific impulse... ...yeah, yeah. Noise, not signal... And not depleted uranium? Huh. Well, it's interesting how the periodic table has worked out. (Maybe fo...

a developing technology called IEC (inertial electromagnetic confinement) fusion, which may offer a cheap Correct me if I'm wrong, but until I read that I was under the impression IEC Fusion stood for "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion." I asked Google what wikipedia had to say: http://www....

AMD says their latest processor has a 128-bit floating-point internal data path That might refer to loads and stores, and not to the precision (e.g. IEEE-754r). Here's a quote from AMD's web site : 128-bit SSE floating-point capabilities enable each processor to simultaneously execute up to four fl...

(cheering from the sidelines)

I'll also spend some quality time hand-optimizing the virtual polywells. But mostly I'll cheer.

Over at the New York Times there's an article about using proton radiation instead of X-Rays to treat cancer. They build $100 million particle accelerators and then put a cancer patient at the focal point. (Ok, I'm grossly oversimplifying, but anyway...) So I'm not a NukeE but if alpha particles are...

I would say "Show me the Money !" But what I really me is "Show me the Results !!" The money will follow. DoD, DoE, energy companies, private investors, they will all jump if this thing can be PROVEN . That was my biggest letdown of the day. :lol: I tried several times to click on your linky, PROVE...

The oldest democracy on the planet is established in Iceland ( since the 10th century). I don´t want to put more wood into the fire. With this short post I stop replying in this thread. I feel bad reading that you won't add more to this discussion. I live in the US and I am here only because the de...

I've been doing assembly on x86, PPC (and 68K) for 12 years. I've looked at GPGPU (using your nVidia or ATI) for calculations but haven't dived in yet. One thing you have at talk-polywell.org (and the other forums) that the guys with an oil company's budget will never have: you have lots of voluntee...

Keegan, The force from a spring is F=K*x, right? And the voltage from an inductor (following your analogy) is V=L*dI/dt, right? Resistance is not a term in the inductor equation. Now, everyone knows that real inductors have non-zero resistance. But it's typically so small that it's not a factor. Run...

I didn't even mention spaceflight, which fusion makes possible the way the jet engine made international flight possible.

It just strikes me as such an amazing photo, alot of those faces have contributed to the polywell and the future in ways they couldn't have imagined. It makes me wonder what that group of people could have accomplished if they knew what we knew today about nuclear fusion. Although we have this wond...