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by PolyGirl
Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Nif or Iter?
Replies: 4
Views: 3885

Polywell and Bussard are mentioned in the post.

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Nif or Iter?
Replies: 4
Views: 3885

Nif or Iter?

A story that has just popped up over at Slashdot regardingNIF or ITER

There does not seem to be any links to any specific article in regards to this post.

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:47 am
Forum: News
Topic: Major Electronics Magazine Picks Up On Polywell
Replies: 162
Views: 83658

Never judge a book by its cover.

Yes MSimon, you are 'good looking'!! Now where was I. Oh yes back to reading this post.

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:21 am
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Roadway
Replies: 41
Views: 18972

Life still in it

Well there is life in the Solar Roadway still. Solar Roadways Awarded DOT Contract to Pave Roads with Solar Cells.

Danger Everyone Danger, Original Posting back on track.

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Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 Gets $8 million
Replies: 98
Views: 57101

Yes

A little squeal of delight from down under.

Congratulations to Dr Nebel and his team.

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:05 am
Forum: News
Topic: Current Patents for Polywell
Replies: 3
Views: 4289

Current Patents for Polywell

This patent refers to the Polywell WB6 and is listed on the WIPO site, priority date is 27/09/2006 and the publication date is 03/04/2008 and publication No. WO/2008/039505 Further searches of 'patent' sites would be suggested as a result of the following ( I have not found other references as of po...
by PolyGirl
Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Solar Roadway
Replies: 41
Views: 18972

Damage From Road Trucks

Just a couple of other engineering or environmental problems Damage to pavement material is dominated by fatigue arising from the peak cycles of longitudinal stress at the bottom to the "pavement" (Rigid or Flexible) under the center of the path traveled by the tires of a truck. Is this material goi...
by PolyGirl
Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Burt Rutan thinks AGW is BS
Replies: 30
Views: 14758

EDSAC is not the first

tomclarke you said EDSAC (Cambridge UK) ran its first program in 1949 and was the first stored program computer. That is not correct. Two fully operational computers the IBM SSEC (although it is contested as to being a first stored program)[1][2] [3] and the other was Manchester Small-Scale Experime...
by PolyGirl
Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Burt Rutan thinks AGW is BS
Replies: 30
Views: 14758

Electromechanical Calculators and Computers

Tom you said Forgive me if I'm coming in a little late here. There were large numbers of electromechanical calculators running in the 1930's and These guys used to crunch exponential series calculations all day, and the name for these poor suckers was "computers." Tom, you are right in that electrom...
by PolyGirl
Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Burt Rutan thinks AGW is BS
Replies: 30
Views: 14758

Not Exactly

Well not exactly. Microcomputers were actually the spawn of calculators. Well not exactly, Calculators are the spawn of humans as humans were the original computers. Fingers, Toes, and Pebbles Bones with Notches Tally Sticks The Abacus John Napier and Napier's Bones The first mechanical calculators...
by PolyGirl
Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Burt Rutan thinks AGW is BS
Replies: 30
Views: 14758

PCs were in the Laboratory

PCs weren't invented in a laboratory, they were the result of massive computers in universities, the military and NASA, gradually being made cheaper more powerful and more compact. PC's were invented in a Laboratory. Definition of Laboratory (noun) A room or building equipped for scientific experim...
by PolyGirl
Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: The Sun and Earth did IT
Replies: 2
Views: 2738

The Sun and Earth did IT

News over at Physorg states. "Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict "future.

Spread the news that the Sun and the Earth did IT!!

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Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:36 pm
Forum: News
Topic: More Piston Fusion
Replies: 3
Views: 3167

More Piston Fusion

More information on Piston fusion can be found at Physorg

Do not worry it will take 10 plus years before anything will come of it (even if it does). A Polywell demo fusion reactor is just a few years away (hopefully).

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:31 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Betelgeuse to Nova
Replies: 44
Views: 13700

More News on Betelgeuse

More news on Betelgeuse can be found here at Physorg.

Regards
Polygirl
by PolyGirl
Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:57 am
Forum: News
Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
Replies: 158
Views: 89858

Re: WB8 Considerations

PolyGirl wrote: The only question is, whether this larger size Polywell is going to be continuous or pulsed?
The answer is from the current solicitation is Pulsed (WB8).

Which leaves the following question of course. Will WB9 be continuous or pulsed?

Regards
Polygirl