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From http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052 :

Testing was performed on a low-thrust torsion pendulum that is capable of detecting force at a single-digit micronewton level, within a stainless steel vacuum chamber with the door closed but at ambient atmospheric pressure.

Why at ambient?

In a July 23 editorial, Nature magazine has joined the calls to redirect fusion funding to aneutronic fusion—fusion that produces no radioactive waste. ... Nature specifcally urged that one of the projects that should be considered for government funding is “Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Middlese...

Woodward by contrast has demonstrated thrust as well as the fluctuation itself with his rotator back around 2008-9. What is really needed are funds to move Woodward's work into commercial development. Maybe $2M for a lab, VHF pre-prototype thruster and power system, and another $2M for a miniaturiz...

Imergy Power Systems has come up with an innovative technique to extract vanadium for its storage systems from mine tailings, depleted oil wells and oil storage depots. To get our active ingredient, we clean up environmental hazards. What does this do to production costs? What is the environmental ...

Beats me why they had to claw every inch of the way for that $180,000, while other proposals (some of which are plainly ridiculous) are over-funded in a flash. People have strange priorities.

ladajo wrote: You really are a sad old man looking for purpose late in life.

I wish you'd knock off making these kind of juvenile taunts, ladajo. I suggest you respect parallel's right to his opinion, even if you personally think it's absurd. He's not harming anyone with it.

I wonder whether there is any way to get Elon Musk interested in testing M-E.

So what is holding Dr. Woodward up here? Lack of funding? Lack of successful reproductions of his work? A scientific community that won't even look at his work?

Why aren't we hearing about plans to launch a small test device into orbit, piggybacking on some other mission?

3D print shop to do the ceramics inexpensively?

Or Lockheed Martin? Didn't they make a surprise announcement about a 100 MW prototype fusion generator by 2017, not so long ago?

Ah, okay, I agree then. I also think it's stupid to speculate when most of the non-tokamak scientists are keeping the information confined within the subcommunity. Why is that? On the plus side, speculation is fun and can be thought provoking. On the minus side, ...? It's not like posting here has ...

Or is the government waking up to the boondoggle of big promises and lousy results for more 60 years, during which it has spent MANY billions on fusion. Many it's priorities re: fusion compared with computing are justified At this point, I'd say the best strategy would be to cover every base fully ...

Frustrating. I wish everyone would be a little less concerned with their own finite lives and a little more concerned with our future as a whole. Putting all eggs into one basket isn't wise, especially if the secondary baskets cost so much less. This must be obvious to them, yet ITER's proponents wi...

The thing I get from it is that the system wants to bury breakthrough fusion research because they know it's starting to pay off, too disruptive. This is what I fear too. They'll sell it off to some bigger company and we'll never hear of it again. Maybe Jeff Bezos has enough leverage to prevent it.

A disappointing statement from Canada's perspective. Something like this could lead Canada to the forefront of a major new industry. Instead it sounds like this CEO would be quite happy to do what nearly always happens to Canadian companies with good ideas; they're sold out to the U.S. (or whoever e...