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My understanding is that high Tc superconductors have problems with large currents in large magnetic fields. As MSimon said in another thread, the field lines interfere with Cooper Pair formation, and it just doesn't work very well. This is viewed as a limit on the strength of the coils using high ...

Since we definitely don't need fusion for 1,000 years, it makes little sense to start building any fusion reactors today unless they can be competitive with current fission plants. How well are the radioactive ores distributed? If the world 'goes fission,' who's going to be sitting on the gold mines?

Did housing really drop in value? Or are prices now in line with what people are willing to spend? If you own a house on a block with one or two abandoned foreclosures, that's gonna really hurt your property value, too. Sure, there's price correction, but that varies by market (area). And why aren'...

If we can dispense with the cocky, shrill, right-wing infoporn and get down to some hard analysis, I would be more interested.

Relativism sounds like a belief. A century and billions spent. Is there an irrefutable proof for "time dilation", "curved spacetime" and "nothing can travel faster than light"? Or, are these only dogmas that do not allow contestation? Actually, other earlier models were the dogma. Relativity took a...

It's my understanding that this doc was released by accident and EMC2 does not want it distributed.
Their intellectual property should be respected at least by the users of this forum, unless EMC2 changed their minds.

At this stage the resources needed are way beyond what grassroots can do, esp given the lousy economy. EMC2 had a very popular (for a physics talk) google video going for it, and the nonprofit New Mexico development fund. But I'd be surprised if they raised more than a few thousand dollars. The Navy...

So liquid H is cheaper than He? Just out of curiousity, how do they compare with LN2?

power production is coming at 1/10th of current prices I was under the impression that cost of distribution (incl. maintenance) was significant regardless of how the power is generated. A large part of the plant cost is in the turbines, etc, assuming they'll still be used with a Polywell. Now, what...

Why is 25K+ so important? Does it have to do with liquid neon vs liquid helium?

Cosmos:

Of course. Tinkerers have confounded critics with more formal education before.
All you need to do is build working examples.

It appears that a practical Polywell will need periodic maintenance, to replace the coil casings and other parts after sputtering and neutrons have taken their toll. If we're talking stationary or earthbound applications, it's not a big deal, but what do you do on a spacecraft? Will this be a limiti...

The awarded 20 million hours of computing time—roughly equivalent to running a single-processor desktop computer for more than 2,280 years

Errr.... 20 million hours = 2280 years. Was he awarded 20M cpu-hours for the whole system, or 20M hours divided by 100,000 CPU's? Or ???

$800B to bail out the banks, $400M to bail out civilization

http://www.crossfirefusor.com Wow. This guy obviously put a lot of time into the web page, but reading it made my eyes hurt. And interspersed with the diagrams etc he throws out these little gems: The travel between Earth and Alpha Centauri star, including acceleration and deceleration, will take 2 ...