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- Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:50 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
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I found the sketches showing the electron and ion guns, along with the alpha collectors. Nothing so far like a PDF or powerpoint illustrating the machine's operation. The only thing I can see at this point is steady state for centralized energy production, especially selling to European Combined Hea...
- Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:16 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
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This is something like telling Henry Ford that he shouldn't go into the auto business when there were hundreds of competitors, and then telling him there was no future in building them for the masses. So far there is not one fusion plant delivering power to the grid. Or anywhere else. Quite right. ...
- Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:29 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
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a mathematcian friend of mine once claimed that the (compound) 'knotting' behaviour of a simple rubber band when you wind it up and wind it up, remained (as of a few years ago at least) one of the great remaining unsolved chalenges of mathematical modelling. Pretty clearly the most minor peculiarit...
- Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
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- Sat Apr 10, 2010 9:53 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
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I am still convinced that the Polywell has a more sound physics in respect to LPP hypothesis. Yet I have to take my hat off to the accomplishments and openness of LPP people. They are burning the ground in their experiments, and if Eric Lerner is right they might beat anyone else to accomplish Fusi...
- Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:22 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
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@kurt9, everybody's skeptical. Seems to be a Bremstrahlung thang.... The donut shape is a simplification. It's really more like an 8 or 16 tip spark plug, so the current sheath is shaped more like a daisy's petals. Then the geometry gets complicated. The design is so small, light, and inexpensive si...
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:25 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
- Replies: 16
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No need to look it up- I was just wondering if you've had the same thought or had heard something about how atomic science got started. Put another way, whose shoulders did the Manhattan Project build on? I saw a brief brief blurb about Madam Curie and her workers' health problems on the tube a few ...
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:12 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
- Replies: 16
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- Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:02 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11984
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:10 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11984
On a submarine you use one heat exchanger to prevent radiation from getting into your turbines, on a normal plant you use two heat exchangers for safety. You can go direct and gain efficiency, but you lose big on the radiation damage to your turbines. The impurities in the water absorb the neutrons...
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
- Replies: 16
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Do Thermal Neutrons Irradiate Their Shielding Water?
Can the shielding water be used to co-generate directly useful heat, or will that require a heat exchanger?
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 9:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Aneutronic fusion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8650
Do thermal neutrons make their shielding water radioactive?
Seemed like a simple enough question, but the best Google could do was send me here, and using lots of ANDs on the board's search function hasn't narrowed it down that far. To be clear, I back pB11 fuel in the Focus Fusion reactor, which self-generates its containment fields, and directly converts t...
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:23 am
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: Allen and Gates as philanthropists of fusion energy
- Replies: 15
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What do you think he meant by "the regulatory climate was too restrictive" ? Fusion gets averaged in with fission in most peoples' minds, so if any pB-11 design should produce a salable design, the regulatory model will almost certainly begin based on how fission sites are treated. [dark undertones...