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- Sat Jun 28, 2014 1:48 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87616
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
Those both were massively expensive projects. By the time we replace all the US fossil fuel sources of electricity with Polywells it WILL be massively expensive. ... ? Aneutronic pays for itself and then some. pB11 fusion would supplant and upgrade the current grid by natural selection alone... not...
- Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:50 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87616
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
... The p-B11 Polywell will turn out to be one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. It will be as big as the Apollo Project or the Manhattan Project... Tactical error. Those both were massively expensive projects. PW would be dirt cheap in comparison, and that should be t...
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
- Replies: 145
- Views: 159120
Re: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
By the way, 3 layers at 3-5% of the heat from D-T fusion should just about compensate for the cusp and Brem. loss energies. A nice contribution. ... from a ~2GW neutron flux in a 2 meter cube? The D-T is offered as a comparative example. Hypothetical, even :) If such a rig were actually built I'd b...
- Thu May 22, 2014 11:30 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nikkei Reports Mitsubishi to Use LENR To Clean Nuclear Waste
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9463
Re: Nikkei Reports Mitsubishi to Use LENR To Clean Nuclear W
Clean nuclear waste? How? The only way that I know of to clean nuclear waste is to bombard the waste with neutrons... The lead shield around the cell indicates that this isn't rossi's "ain't/ain't not radioactive" style of crap... apparently, from the links, the neutrons are produced in situ adjace...
- Sun May 11, 2014 2:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LPP is crowdfunding fusion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11441
Re: LPP is crowdfunding fusion
Eric Lerner of LPP willl be a guest speaker of the Oxford University Scientific Society on Wednesday, May 14th.
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- Wed May 07, 2014 2:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1466647
Re: Mach Effect progress
... back to the subject. At this time how small could an independent test unit be built ? Nothing fancy... just one that could provide definitive proof that something's going on. Obviously it'd be larger than a cube sat.... and add in as well an independent free-floating measurement unit to provide ...
- Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:58 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Ice Cap increase 29%, Reality laughs at Models.
- Replies: 62
- Views: 18702
Re: Ice Cap increase 29%, Reality laughs at Models.
Well, he's down from the 60% he'd previously claimed.
And of course there's those other things he... forgot... to mention:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/1 ... ail/197340
And of course there's those other things he... forgot... to mention:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/1 ... ail/197340
- Wed Apr 23, 2014 10:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1155060
Re: SpaceX News
Above all else, this:
When the F9 line is fully reusable then being able to launch 10 smaller payloads for the price of one current payload will more than make up for the smaller payloads... and then some.
When the F9 line is fully reusable then being able to launch 10 smaller payloads for the price of one current payload will more than make up for the smaller payloads... and then some.
- Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX News
- Replies: 2324
- Views: 1155060
Re: SpaceX News
But what, then, is the advantage vs just landing in the ocean? A little less wear? Landing in the ocean, via chute or engines, means dropping the stage and its expensive engines into salt water... for hours. And the F9R 1st stage is meant to return to the launch site. Launchers spend most of the bo...
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Warmists off the deep end
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3026
Re: Warmists off the deep end
Uh, well... there's this thing called limestone; and if that's not enough there's this other thing called marble. Both are found in abundance. Both were created by processes that started with sea life growing calcium carbonate shells; often in situations where the atmospheric concentration of CO2 w...
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
- Replies: 880
- Views: 527337
Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Amazing, Eric Lerner seems to imply there are only three alternative fusion approaches, ITER, NIF, and LPP. In his comparisons of fusion efforts, he makes no mention of General Fusion, EMC2, Tri-Alpha, Helion, LM, Solox, (sorry if I left an approach out). Me-ow :) The audience was Jane and Joe Q. P...
- Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:59 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: General Fusion in the news
- Replies: 590
- Views: 357699
Re: General Fusion in the news
The confidence of other vulture capitalists that this target is ripe to be picked clean?mvanwink5 wrote:What in the world is that supposed to mean?Another thing he thinks he can bring to the company is confidence.
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Does the US Navy want Polywell in order to power rail guns?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7039
Re: Does the US Navy want Polywell in order to power rail gu
I believe that the all of the currently deployed Navy combat lasers are solid state/fiber units.ladajo wrote:I saw this somewhere else a while back
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:52 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 2014 Dark Horse Trifecta Year?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 64397
Re: 2014 Dark Horse Trifecta Year?
Although I am a lurker on the site, I thought that I would bring up today's NIF Nature publication where they claim power gains of 1.2-1.4 (energy out of pellet/energy hitting the pellet)... This was covered here a while back. While it does mark real progress for the NIF work it carefully defines g...
- Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
- Replies: 378
- Views: 292848
Re: Factor X have we finally found the fountain of Youth?
... to be more precise it's a potentially revenue-generating fantasy issue for Gartner Inc.Skipjack wrote:In other words a fantasy issue.
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