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by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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'...
by rcain
Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Any official news as of late July 2008?
Replies: 154
Views: 92738

i can imagine the US Navy taking a while to fully digest the findings (whatever state those are in at present); even longer to decide what to tell the general public of it. they might need to choose their words carefully, 'nuanced' if you will ;)
by rcain
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...
by rcain
Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:25 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: magrid configuration brainstorming
Replies: 632
Views: 269072

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
thanks Solo.
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
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...
by rcain
Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:09 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Someone has the date of release of Information - Lets POOL !
Replies: 49
Views: 32746

tomorrow - dead cert
by rcain
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 ...
by rcain
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 -...