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by pstudier
Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:53 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Carlson and Nebel
Replies: 108
Views: 79902

It also seems to me that neutrons out of the WB-6 should be pretty compelling evidence that ions aren't wandering aimlessly. A billion neutrons are not very impressive. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell Despite initial difficulties in spherical electron confinement, at the time of the 2005...
by pstudier
Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:24 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Carlson and Nebel
Replies: 108
Views: 79902

Flawed in a sense that the effective well depth is almost nonexistent - ions can escape through the faces at already very low energies - no matter that the voltage is quite low in the middle compared to the coils. So the voltage in the middle drops but we can't use it to fuse ions. - Indrek Wonderf...
by pstudier
Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:14 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinement?
Replies: 74
Views: 52636

scareduck wrote:pstudier -- Art has been active on the Polywell talk page you linked to, so it's safe to say he already knows about it.
Sorry, I must have had a senior moment. I knew the name was familiar.

Does anyone know what happened to the Polywell Wiki?
by pstudier
Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:17 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinement?
Replies: 74
Views: 52636

Re: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinem

Greetings! After some interesting though inconclusive exchanges with some of you on cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com, I thought it would be fun to drop by here. If you haven't found this yet, here is the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell and here is the Wikipedia discussion page: http://...
by pstudier
Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:36 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinement?
Replies: 74
Views: 52636

Re: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinem

Greetings! After some interesting though inconclusive exchanges with some of you on cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com, I thought it would be fun to drop by here. If you haven't already done this, go to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IEC_Fusion/ and read the recent posts by Indrek. He has done a lot of si...
by pstudier
Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:19 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Electron recirculation
Replies: 106
Views: 51155

Due to Gauss' Law, the potential inside an empty sphere is uniform regardless of the charge on the sphere, so a negative perturbation in the potential requires the presence of a negative charge. To pick a nit here, the volume inside any conducting shape is of uniform potential. If the sphere is not...
by pstudier
Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:54 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: Polywell-specific FAQ
Replies: 9
Views: 11426

MSimon wrote:can be found in the Wiki.
What Wiki? The Polywell Wiki has been down for days. Wikipedia's article does not have a lot of detail.
by pstudier
Sat May 31, 2008 9:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Something stirring - Blacklight Power
Replies: 18
Views: 14628

So this should be interesting, either confirming and settling things probably for good, or reversing the trend and giving most people food for new thoughts. Mills is a nutcase, but this will no more go away than will cold fusion. If he were right, then Hydrinos should be common in the universe. Ast...
by pstudier
Sat May 17, 2008 2:05 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Electron recirculation
Replies: 106
Views: 51155

Question: It appears that the field lines through a coil or cusp have a much "blunter" funnel on the inside and a "thinner" funnel on the outside. i.e. a gentle ramp from the outside and a steep ramp from the inside. Does this make it easier for the electrons to transit from out to in than from in ...
by pstudier
Fri May 16, 2008 2:47 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Electron recirculation
Replies: 106
Views: 51155

I think the electrons will fly off. One can only contain the number of electrons that it would take to neutralize the positive charge on the magrid. These will tend to be in a layer of one debye length thick close to the grid. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye_length Along the axis of the donut...
by pstudier
Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:31 am
Forum: General
Topic: A Green Wants to Reduce the Numbr of Humans on Earth
Replies: 143
Views: 56861

MSimon wrote:I'm not sure the Khmer Rouge is a good advertising point for the concept.
The Khmer Rouge were very bad villagers. The Amish are good villagers. They live their philosophy, but they don't inflict it on others.
by pstudier
Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: A Green Wants to Reduce the Numbr of Humans on Earth
Replies: 143
Views: 56861

What is villagerism ? A villager is a term for someone who wants to live in a small isolated village where he can know everyone who has any influence in his life. A key text in this philosophy is Small is Beautiful, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful . Some people use the term watermel...
by pstudier
Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: A Green Wants to Reduce the Numbr of Humans on Earth
Replies: 143
Views: 56861

So referring back to the original thread topic and polywell fusion... Will a new quantum increase in prosperity lead to more population and overuse of the planet or will it result in negative population growth and social decay? Is there a "wisdom feedback mechanism" that can be applied to human nat...
by pstudier
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:28 pm
Forum: Awareness
Topic: Let us start discrediting tokamak fusion. Wrong Shape.
Replies: 61
Views: 53157

I thought the levitating dipole had the highest density gradient in the centre and it decreased as you went outward, that bad curvature. Also how are the magnets cooled from the ion flux present in a fusion reactor if they are suspended in mid-air The levitated dipole is similar to the Van Allan ra...
by pstudier
Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:00 am
Forum: Design
Topic: A torus mag confinement?
Replies: 12
Views: 10511

This sounds like a very old idea called a Stellarator. Tokomaks worked better so Stellarators fell out of favor.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator