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- 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...
- 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...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:14 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Why is polywell supposed to be better than cusp confinement?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 52636
- 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://...
- 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...
- 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...
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:54 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Polywell-specific FAQ
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11426
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator