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Thanks
For catching that, I have made the change.

Merry Christmas!!

A heads up. It's a long shot. But on January 27th the list of the 100 finalists in the Google contest goes to a public vote. If one of those finalist proposals is to fund WB-8, then there are concrete steps that all of us could take. First, vote for that project. Second, get out the vote, contact fa...

I am curious has anyone else submitted a proposal to this Google contest to fund WB-8 ?

Faced with the task of writing a proposal for the Google Project 10 to the 100th Contest, I needed to name what I was proposing. I finally settled on having EMC2 build a "Duodecahedron Polywell Whiffle Ball Boron Fusor." Recently, Joe Strout pointed out that a polywell is not a fusor, so I had to re...

In the Google "project 10 to 100th", I submitted a proposal that would build a duodecahedron, polywell,whiffle ball, Boron, fusor. Did that verbiage make sense. If not what would have been a correct way to say it.

Joe wrote:"The polywell is not a fusor." could someone please explain this distinction.

Let me take it one step further. If the distribution is Maxwellian then there is little chance for net power and if using Boron no chance. If it is not Maxwellian then there is still a reasonable chance for net power. It may turn out that the only way to establish that it is not Maxwellian is to bui...

Agreed, If there is enough money. But the Navy may not have enough money now. So a partnership with a Utility and/or a University might be in order to get the money now. Thus saving humanity sooner.

The best place for experimental work may come down to a choice between where the brains are and where the money is.

Bellingham, Washington 98226 The utilities would be Puget Sound Energy and BPA. In the 1980's I negotiated two power sales agreements with PSE and they were very supportive and saw the benefits of being on the cutting edge of what might be coming.

At this point in time, there appears to be some reason to believe that there will be a next small step. The question is when and what? If that step needs to have a large power supply to drive and cool the magnets, then that might be the new major expense that needs to be funded. The Navy may not hav...

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On August 21 2008, rnebel wrote to me " parts for a dodecahedron probably run in the $300k-$500k range that doesn't include people or diagnostics. ~$1000k would probably be a little light, but might be doable."

Looking down the road, I think the name we may want to get to eventually is a "Boron Fusor". It has no immediate negative implications. It does roll off the tongue nicely. In fact, we may now be entering the Boron Age. So for the time being lets just call it a Fusor.