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I had reached the conclusion that the positively charged grid did not effect the ions within it ( no internal electrical field within a hollow sphere). Only the magnetically confined electrons provided an accelerating force on the ions. But, does the cloud of electrons near the center of the space w...

Well, R. Nebel would have to be counted too as he has posted on this site.


Dan tibbets

Well, I never found the original thread again, but backtracking through one of the titles via a Google search found the site:
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/



Dan Tibbets

Ureka, I think I understand the Polywell and it's parent better. First an apology to those better versed in the math and physics involved, that have to suffer my ruminations, but... I had conceived that the Elmore Tuck and Watson( ETW) version of the Fuser, which the Polywell is based on, consisted ...

I started a new thread " Eureka, my new understanding of the Polywell"
that is derived from my newly gained knowledge from this thread.


Dan Tibbets

Another question. In another thread I have been enlighted to the fact that a hollow charged sphere has no effect on a charged particle inside of it. But, is not the decellerating grids that are susposed to decelerate the alpha particles the same thing? Or does the centrally located structures (magri...

I agree with your assessment in 2-dimensions, but expanding it to 3 dimensions is where things fall apart. The major difference is that the perimeter of a hollow square expands linearly with increased side length (or the circumference of a circle expands linearly with the radius). The amount of cha...

Yes, indeed I'm confused. And to further extend my confusion I'll argue further. First, my understanding of a a Faraday cage is that it is a barrior against electrostatic fields, it doesn't say anything about what fields may exist within or outside of it. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefini...

I'm not sure of your point. My example is an imagined and impossible model that I used to try to illistrate the seperation of the electrostatic forces driving the ions, and the magnetic forces confining the electrons. I have heard arguments about how few unbalanced charged particles can be contained...

I'm confused again (or is that yet?). Your statments seem to imply that the gyroradius is the distance a particle can penitrate through a magnetic field befor it is stoped/ translated ito lateral motion. My understanding that the gyroradius is: "Radius of orbit of charged particle about a magnetic f...

Below is a list of articles- mostly by R Bussard concerning the Polywell. They were obtained by a limited search on "Robert Bussard", and "Polywell". I found them on a US government site referenced by Tall Dave in another thread. I cannot find the thread now and I was too lazy to bookmark the site, ...

What if there were no electrons? What if electrons were taken out of the picture initially. Perhaps all this concentration on magnetic field effects are obscuring the actual primary driving force of the Polywell. At it's heart the force driving the positively charged ions towards the center is the p...

Thanks for the replies. A video that shows well what I was trying to describe is at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHrKLlvkts4&feature=related It shows a single electron in a Polywell. I guess this would represent the simplist situation, befor multiple electrons and ions start mixing up the pictur...

So you make the reactor bigger. Coil power goes up linearly with size. Output power goes up as the 7th power of linear size. I make calculation sheet for that purpose. Yes if go Big enough breakeven is posible. But it found at 2.5km core and 250m thick coils if use 10% thickness rule. Breakeven com...

I thought radio/microwave heating of the plasma has been a major part of the energy input into Tokamaks for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus Perhaps, the use of helium radioheating is new? Or, the evolution of monitering and intervention methods hinted at in the thead below. ...