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Michael Delage from General Fusion will speak at the Pecha Kucha Vol. 37 “Our Green Future” event in Vancouver, Canada on September 23, 2015. http://voguetheatre.com/events/pecha-kucha-vol-37-our-green-future/ Michele Laberge will give a talk in November at the University of British Columbia, Canada...

A GF staff member presented at the UW-Madison plasma physics colloquium yesterday. From memory: ... *The montage of the explosive compression tests was awesome :twisted: Thanks Solo for the summary of the GF presentation! Is there a web page with an abstract for this colloquium? Last year in Decemb...

The main goal of that event is probably for General Fusion to attract more investors with deep enough pockets. GF is again hiring new people: Manager Research Partnerships Jobs, Marketing Coordinator Jobs http://ca.jobscenter.info/job-29707d1942316095-manager-research-partnerships-job-vacancy-at-gen...

Yes, hopefully the plasma contamination problem has now been solved. It will be very interesting to see the performance of their device over the coming weeks and months.

Michel Laberge will talk at the 2015 Fortune Brainstorm: E conference during September 28–29, 2015 in Austin, Texas. He has been given 10 min to discuss: HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE A plasma physicist and entrepreneur argues that fusion is finally real. Michel Laberge, Founder and Chief Sci...

Did you watch the video accompanying Daniel Clerys article in Science? There is a nice photo of C-2U at right angle to the long axis, a picture from the control room and a plot showing the plasmoid radius as a function of time for three different cases. The progress is seen in the plot as the consta...

Tokamak Energy has written a leaflet on fusion called Faster Fusion. In it they present their roadmap of fusion reactor development (wisely enough without a schedule): http://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/testsite ... eaflet.pdf

On a similar note has anyone heard what the outcome of the thorium reactor test in Sweden has been? I think it's supposed to end sometime this year. I guess you mean the five year experiments in Halden, Norway which will continue to 2017? In 2013, the Norwegian technology company, Thor Energy, star...

The size of the reactors is an interesting question, but I'm not sure we really know enough yet to answer that question. The question of shielding size is a trade off between the wanted lifetime of the magnets and the affordable replacement time. All D-T reactors will need replacement of radiation d...

The Spherical Tokamak (ST) is a hot topic because it seems to have favourable stability properties compared to a traditional tokamak and in addition to that the additional benefits of smaller size, faster development cycles and lower cost. Dennis Whyte of MIT has been promoting the ST design called ...

Tokamak Energy wins World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award: http://widgets.weforum.org/techpioneers-2015b/ Through this award it will have access to the most influential and sought-after business and political network in the world, and be invited to the World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” i...

I wondered if the amount of fluff was a function of tight lips on the critical details, or if secrecy may just be a function of thin results. I will be interested in what others have to say. I guess it was due to both reasons. The plasma temperature they can reach is limited by the available heatin...

I posted this quote by Michel Laberge a while ago in the General Fusion in the news thread, but I think is good so I will repeat it here as well: Laberge offers both a complaint, and a solution: “It’s as hard to find the money as it is to find the fusion. I walked a lot to find the money. So, I’d sa...

In the general introduction McGuire described Lockheed Martins goals of mobile fusion reactors even on air planes. They seem to have no interest at least currently in advanced fuels, which is understandable as they will run a thermal neutral plasma. The heating of the plasma with Neutral Beam Inject...

jrvz wrote:4:15 in what time zone?

That is local time in Princeton, New Jersey so the time zone is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).