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If we're worried about a helium shortage, what can you use to fill the airships? Without helium you would have to use heated air. The heating is cheap but it doesn't have the same advantage that helium provides with zero energy. I suppose if your reactor fails you will retain enough heat to get to t...

Oh yeah one more thing I forgot to mention. The risk of getting a PhD also involves getting stuck in a program that never gives you the degree. My brother is having this problem in chemistry at Ohio State right now. I guess the political issue is pretty key. I'm good with people but I don't have muc...

Well I've certainly got a decision coming up here. My baseline plan for the last year has been the so-called "safe" plan: Get a non-thesis masters in space systems engineering and get a job working at a desk. It seemed pretty appealing until my internship this year. Despite all that engineers know, ...

Obviously Carlson knows more than the average person about what he's saying or else I see no reason why Nebel would take even a moment of his time to debunk him.

Does Nebel know of Carlson? (Is Carlson in the Tokamak community?)

Haha, I wouldn't be suprised. Sucker =p

I'll be going to grad school in the 2009-2010 time frame and I still don't know where to go. When you apply to a grad school it is very unlikely that you will be admitted unless you find a professor there who shares similar research interests with you. Now, getting a PhD in engineering is no easy ta...

I know this is an old thread, but I've been curious about startup of a polywell after failure on something such as a spacecraft for awhile. The part I don't know at all depends upon this: what value of G can we expect polywells to achieve? Is it dependent upon the radius or is there a fundamental up...

MSimon, Thanks for the welcome. I was actually wondering recently how you came to learn so much about plasma physics. From what I picked up from other posts I thought you were an aerospace engineer by profession (Avionics maybe?). Actually theres a lot of people here who seem to know a lot more than...

Hahaha, brilliant sarcasm.

Too bad the third guy had to state the obvious rather than play along.

I took this thread as an inspiration to register my own login. I've been lurking here for a couple months, and have read a majority of the posts here. I look forward to contributing here since so many of you seem to share many of the same interests I have. Here's a few quick facts about myself; mayb...