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by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~science/

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~science/termcard.shtml
by zapkitty
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 ...
by zapkitty
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
by zapkitty
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.
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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

mvanwink5 wrote:
Another thing he thinks he can bring to the company is confidence.
What in the world is that supposed to mean?
The confidence of other vulture capitalists that this target is ripe to be picked clean?
by zapkitty
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

ladajo wrote:I saw this somewhere else a while back
I believe that the all of the currently deployed Navy combat lasers are solid state/fiber units.
by zapkitty
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...
by zapkitty
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?

Skipjack wrote:In other words a fantasy issue.
... to be more precise it's a potentially revenue-generating fantasy issue for Gartner Inc.

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