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Hello, Am I wrong in believing that magnetic forces are far more studied than electrostatic forces? I had a hunch that tokamaks would be practical as soon as really high powered magnets became available. MIT had an article that said basically the same thing (sorry I can't dig it up). So the quest fo...

Tom Ligon wrote:
So I want something so I can hide up at the cabin in the mountains for the next four years.

Yeah I know what you mean...

Oh I see they got a bunch os stuff here.. One of these things is 7% efficient.. not too shabby

Thanks for the update. 13 watts for $375 is kinda high but might have some interesting niche applications. Since they don't just outright say how efficient it is I'll have to crack open a spreadsheet

Ultra strong magnetic fields wouldn't mitigate bremsstrahlung losses unless you were doing something extremely clever. I have some hope with MIT and CO's findings regarding radiation loss concerning electrons. But I'm not holding my breath.

TheRadicalModerate wrote:The Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster.

The assertion here is that it's quantized Unruh radiation.

Ah I missed your post

This will likely land me in hot water, but I think I will say it anyways. These EM drive experiments have produced positive results under certain conditions. The experiments done at the Eagleworks involved the use of a plastic disk in the microwave chamber. Apparently plastic is weakly dielectric. ...

https://trialphaenergy-openhire.silkroa ... ardId=3338

General Atomics owns the simplified microcode, per the article.

New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. Summary: A new computer model finds that electrons are more important in plasma interactions than previously believed. A simulation of more than 10 million...

I'm not current in the state of the art of magnets but this article from 2014 says that superconducting permanent magnets have reached 17.6 teslas http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/superconductor-traps-strongest-magnetic-field-yet The article mentions that the brittle composition of the magne...

Oops.. It is.. Other articles didn't. But they didn't say just how hard it is.

http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/3d-printed-ceramics-breakthrough-15-01-2016/ A method to 3D print structurally sound ceramic as well as heat resistant varieties was thought impossible – until now. Silicon oxycarbide, a ceramic, was successfully created by Californian researchers and was found to be ab...

Sorry if this has been asked before, I was unable to find the answer.

Is the practicality of most fusion designs down to how powerful the available electromagnets are? Smaller gyroradii and longer containment times... If you could somehow make a 200 Tesla magnet (forget if it is possible) would practical fusion plants be popping up as fast as fission designs did in th...