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- Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: eyewitness report from the new lab
- Replies: 43
- Views: 22403
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:38 am
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: Let us start discrediting tokamak fusion. Wrong Shape.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 53151
nif fusion
I'm willing to bet the polywell beats NIF to the development stage if we get positive results from Santa Fe between now and August. At the very least it will beat NIF on size and cost. Also from what I've read on NIF so far it has a way to go before the lasers can be fired often enough to be a worth...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:43 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Initial Responses
- Replies: 123
- Views: 146130
The ITER crowd will be miffed for sure. That reminds me, probably the best way to generate public interest would be if photos of WB7 in operation were published. A picture being worth a 1000 words and all. Also, if any photo's of WB6 shorting out were available, or post destruction, or a blown out m...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:39 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Initial Responses
- Replies: 123
- Views: 146130
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talk
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24036
People fight because of money. There was a former Marine Commandant named Smedley Darlington Butler in the 30's, one of only 2 Americans ever to win the Congressional Medal of Honor twice. When he retired he wrote a book called 'War is a Rachet.' As he pointed out, in peace time companies slog along...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:12 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talk
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24036
I think Dr. Bussard was extremely modest about the benefit to mankind from polywell fusion. One of these reactors in any country is a potential Von Neumann machine, providing the means to make dozens more. Imagine a country like Haiti developing an electrical capacity equal to all North America with...
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:36 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: MSNBC Reports First Plasma WB-7
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16927
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:12 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: MSNBC Reports First Plasma WB-7
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16927
WB7 1st plasma
This is exciting, I didn't expect to hear anything from emc2 for at least 2 more months. Maybe I should send an email to my local MP Raymond Chan. He worked at TRW before getting into politics, designed and built a machine. Do you think it could help?
Best $100.00 I ever spent!!!
Best $100.00 I ever spent!!!
- Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:35 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
- Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:37 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
loading up the core with non reactive matter
I admit its a long shot idea, extremely unlikely to work. It would mean having to ramp up the drive current in proportion to the added mass and would probably block reactions more than help. The machine would in all likelyhood run dirty (radioactive), if at all. I was thinking though, if the fuel an...
- Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:00 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
POPS core pressure
POPS core pressure should increase by using Boron based fuel with its higher mass than the usual lighter deuterium or tritium systems. Possibly some other non reactant material could be added to further increase fuel mass, allowing even higher core pressures.
- Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:48 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
improving pops
Just a wild idea for improving POPS performance. How about adding those harmonics of the primary frequency that boost core pressure while filtering out harmonics that attenuate the primary frequency.
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:06 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
bad journalism
What eventually lead me to iec fusion sites was the Popular Mechanics story a few years ago with the exploding empire state building front cover. The article made the fantastic claim that while government scientists didn't believe cold fusion worked a form of it could be used by terrorists to build ...
- Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:01 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:31 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: POPS Paper
- Replies: 33
- Views: 24156
http://www.rexresearch.com/farnsworth/fusor.htm, check under the 'Advanced Fusor' section with the photo of the model rumored to be self-sustaining.