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- Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 77% favor tax incentives for the development of alt. energy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6288
Yeah. We could destroy our economy to make alt. energy work. Is that a good idea? Well, its either that or sit here and FRY! Something has to give here and the American body politic have got to realize two things: 1) That they are not the only human being inhabiting this planet 2) that they will ch...
- Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: McCcain on Energy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12383
Is there Hope ? Hi Keegan - I see from you profile you might be resident in Oz. I am in the UK. Might we be counting ourselves lucky we are not living in America in 10 years time? The arguments for and against Nuke itself are complex. The deciding issue for me is preventing environmental catastroph...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:10 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Power costs to run the electromagnets
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13590
That would fit in a stadium no problem. Nobody would be left with hearing for 20 miles, but that's what loud rock music is all about. :D no, no- what you want playing on THAT is some of this - 148BPM LOUD REPETITIVE BEATS with loads of Polyphonix & FX.... wait, let me plug my MP3 in for you....you'...
- Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:01 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
- Replies: 154
- Views: 92738
- Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Large Hadron Collider RAP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2614
Re: Large Hadron Collider RAP
Just for fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM welcome Fusionfan - a very fine opening post if i may say - welcome :) i think the rap itself is a bit sh*t, however, its surprisingly informative - i can see it being hummed by future generations of well oriented youth, once this whole Boson...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:25 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269072
thanks Solo.Solo wrote:So someone thinks an FRC could be stuffed inside a polywell? Well, I guess if you have a toroidal cusp you might as well try an FRC/cusp combo.
Dolan's paper is here:
http://mr-fusion.hellblazer.com/pdfs/ma ... nement.pdf
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:23 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269072
From Francis F. Chen, Introduction to Plasma Physics "A plasma is a quasineutral gas of charged and neutral particles which exhibits collective behavior." It is the collective part that makes plasmas different than normal gas dynamics. The whole fluid has viscosity that comes from interactions with...
- Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:01 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269072
Just a quick drive-by answer: that sounds like a pretty good fly-by to me. I have some experience with fluid mechanics. One thing to consider is that the Knudsen number is probably pretty high (electrons are supposed to make 1e5 transits without thermalizing), so concepts like the Reynolds number a...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:52 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Power costs to run the electromagnets
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13590
but, should it be possible, something the size of the sun which is also IEC based, evidently is self-sustaining (also has ignition mode); my question is at what scale does scale/density itself becomes a significant factor - i would guess it to have some relationship to probability of secondary fusi...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:52 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Power costs to run the electromagnets
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13590
Remember, with a Polywell there's no "ignition." The reaction is never self-sustaining, except in the sense that you could feed the electricity generated back into the electron guns once the turbines (D-D) or alpha collectors (p-B11) are up and making juice. is that true of all fuel types and all p...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:24 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Power costs to run the electromagnets
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13590
Remember, with a Polywell there's no "ignition." The reaction is never self-sustaining, except in the sense that you could feed the electricity generated back into the electron guns once the turbines (D-D) or alpha collectors (p-B11) are up and making juice. is that true of all fuel types and all p...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:04 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269072
I can't imagine how you could avoid cutting B lines. Some of the induced currents are what you want because they smooth out the lumps. (???) But too much would be problematical. indeed a particular type of lumpiness is desirable i think - turbulent flow optimizing a further boundary layer. i also w...
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:09 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Someone has the date of release of Information - Lets POOL !
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32746
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:35 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
- Replies: 632
- Views: 269072
Icarus - thanks for the technical correction - yes, prolate spheroids. TonyBarry - re: mass inertia in the plasma wiffleball interior - or inertial gradient - isnt this a function of our well-gradient and plasma density equations? it seems also that we would be in the territory of MHD so would need ...
- Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:58 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Possible wiffle-ball analytical solution
- Replies: 88
- Views: 62937
there are a couple of interesting papers i came across here: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/fed/Theory/publication/pub2004/pt7b13e.pdf and http://fusion.gat.com/THEORY/images/a/a0/Candy-sher02.pdf whilst they're not directly modeling our configuration, i think some of the techniques might be quite useful -...