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by crowberry
Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:55 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335655

Re: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker

Yet another update P00027, but this time with $293,828! Date Signed (mm/dd/yyyy) : 05/04/2015 Effective Date (mm/dd/yyyy) : 05/04/2015 Completion Date (mm/dd/yyyy) : 09/30/2015 Est. Ultimate Completion Date (mm/dd/yyyy) : 09/30/2015 Nice to see that EMC2 is still getting support from the Navy. The c...
by crowberry
Sun Aug 02, 2015 10:33 am
Forum: News
Topic: PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015
Replies: 34
Views: 27013

Re: PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015

I emailed Carol Ann Austin, organizer of the colloquium to see if it would be streamed via the Princeton Media Central site. Her reply was: "Hi. Yes, it will probably be streamed, as long as the speaker signs the PPPL waiver forms. Thanks." Thanks pdxpyro! That sounds encouraging, so lets hope McGu...
by crowberry
Sat Aug 01, 2015 7:12 am
Forum: News
Topic: PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015
Replies: 34
Views: 27013

PPPL Colloquium: The Lockheed Martin CFR, Aug 6, 2015

Now this should be interesting! :D August 6, 2015, 4:15pm to 6:30pm MBG Auditorium COLLOQUIUM: The Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion Reactor Dr. Thomas McGuire Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Skunkworks is developing a compact fusion reactor concept, CFR. The novel magnetic cusp configuration would all...
by crowberry
Wed Jul 29, 2015 8:03 am
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 590
Views: 357747

Re: General Fusion in the news

Here is the abstract of Victoria Suponitskys presentation at the ISSW30 conference: https://events.eventact.com/ProgramView/ViewAbstract.aspx?Abst=83261&Code=1666701 Another interesting ISSW30 abstract is A review of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability from an Experimental Perspective by Riccardo Bon...
by crowberry
Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:10 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: David Gummersalls PhD thesis on low beta Polywell physics
Replies: 0
Views: 13516

David Gummersalls PhD thesis on low beta Polywell physics

David Gummersalls PhD thesis Scaling laws of electron confinement and power losses in zero and low beta Polywell devices is available from the University of Sydney at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/13541. The PDF file consists of 182 pages.
by crowberry
Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 590
Views: 357747

Re: General Fusion in the news

General Fusion will present at the conference 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW30) http://www.ortra.com/events/issw30/Home.aspx on the topic Propagation of pressure waves in liquid metal in the compression system prototype for magnetized target fusion reactor in General Fusion Inc. ...
by crowberry
Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Steven Cowley: "Bottling the Sun"
Replies: 3
Views: 4796

Re: Steven Cowley: "Bottling the Sun"

As long as none of the alternative fusion concepts has not surpassed the performance of JET it is correct to say that the tokamak path presents the lowest scientific risk to break even, because all the knowledge to do that was gained already in the 1970s. The tokamak plan is to demonstrate a burning...
by crowberry
Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: House of Lords’ science&technology committee fusion session
Replies: 2
Views: 8415

House of Lords’ science&technology committee fusion session

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee holds a one-off evidence session looking into the prospects for nuclear fusion and the UK's research and development landscape. Witnesses Tuesday 21 July, Committee Room 4A, Palace of Westminster. At 10.40am Professor Steven Cowley FRS, FREng, Chi...
by crowberry
Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:31 am
Forum: News
Topic: Steven Cowley: "Bottling the Sun"
Replies: 3
Views: 4796

Steven Cowley: "Bottling the Sun"

Steven Cowley has written a short article called Bottling the Sun where he argues for increased funding for fusion research. I think that the article is a concise very general summary of the state of affairs in fusion research. Increased funding for the field would be of course very welcomed to spee...
by crowberry
Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Article on laser driven pB11 fusion
Replies: 20
Views: 26606

Article on laser driven pB11 fusion

Heinrich Hora has written an article called Clean boron fusion using extreme laser pulses where he reports on simulations to study laser driven pB11 fusion and some experimental results too.

http://spie.org/x114732.xml
by crowberry
Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Wendelstein 7-X
Replies: 56
Views: 79440

Re: Wendelstein 7-X

Nice progress with the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: Testing of the magnetic field in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device was completed sooner than planned. The measurements, which were much anticipated at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, show: The superconducting magnetic coi...
by crowberry
Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:46 am
Forum: News
Topic: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London
Replies: 10
Views: 12957

Re: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London

Tokamak Energy was running their High Temperature Superconductor spherical tokamak for a world record breaking 29 hours during the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. That is a really impressive achievement! http://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/we-now-hold-the-world-record-for-running-our-tokamak-wit...
by crowberry
Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:42 am
Forum: News
Topic: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London
Replies: 10
Views: 12957

Re: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London

I agree that it will be interesting to see what comes out of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator. The construction of such devices seems to be very complicated and time consuming though, which does not bode good for practical and economical fusion. Another device to keep an eye on that will resume opera...
by crowberry
Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:36 am
Forum: News
Topic: More Helion Energy news....
Replies: 359
Views: 283434

Re: More Helion Energy news....

Helion Energy Financing Helion Energy, Inc., Corporation just filed form D for $21.23 million equity financing. This is a new filing. Helion Energy was able to sell $10.61 million so far. That is 50.00% of the round of financing. The total offering amount was $21.23 million. The fundraising form wa...
by crowberry
Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:33 am
Forum: News
Topic: JET will attempt Q-record by the end of the decade
Replies: 46
Views: 39639

Re: JET will attempt Q-record by the end of the decade

Actually the date for the November schedule seems still to hold also according to the news posted after the 16th ITER Council in June 2015: Work is progressing towards an updated project plan, which recognizes the serious accumulated delays, and which integrates the scope, cost and schedule for the ...