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Tom Ligon wrote: Neutron damage, I expect. I had almost no white hairs in my beard before starting with EMC2.

Tom, YOU may be the evidence this forum's been screaming for!

What's the difference between peak demand and off-peak? If the whole point of this thing is to straddle the economic difference between the two, when you have a lot of customers use it, the difference shrinks.

What kind of power plant would be less cost-competitive than a tok?

You maybe surprised to know that electrons in a typical cathode TV are hot enough to theoretically fuse together.

He's right. I am surprised.

Look, forget the megawatts. If it was megawatts they'd be exceeding other "LENR" experiments by a factor of a million. The thing was done in a calorimeter, which means the result was a temperature blip in a small qty of water. It coulda been from a grad student smoking a joint too close to the appar...

Snippet from article: He used the system to measure what happened when he charged an ammonium chloride solution, and found that it formed nitrogen trichloride and 50 megawatts of excess power. The author didn't know her units, and neither did the editor. Not that I'd expect much from popsci, but she...

It could be the biggest economic change from polywell might be indirect. Instead of a doubtful future dominated by diminishing resources, the confidence that we could instead open the sluice-gates and plan big would be great. And I think that's what's behind so much of the enthusiasm here. Being tie...

Since distribution counts for about half (?) of the cost of electricity, Polywell will make an economic difference to the first world, but it won't be gigantic. The average Joe will still turn his TV on, etc the way he used to. The sun will set on King Coal, and miners will have to turn to something...

Do you think that WB D, being a privately funded design, will evolve into something that falls under the Freedom of Information Act? Or will it forever stay beyond the visible horizon?

I'm missing something here. WB D is privately funded?

Revolutionary green energy projects are a dime-a-dozen, but this one made it on 60 Minutes last night: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/60minutes/main6221135.shtml It's a compact fuel cell. Apparently endorsed & used by Fed Ex, Google, and Ebay. I was wondering how efficient these things we...

Did I miss something? They were talking about some kind of medical issues. Tom and M. Simon weren't on.

chrismb wrote:Looks like teflon to me. OK for vacuum, but is a bit permeable and will retain some gasses until they've all outgassed. I use PEEK where I can but is pricey.

In the presence of plasma, wouldn't teflon burn up & throw junk into the vacuum?

The teflon-insulated wire in our setup gets very cruddy.

I'm curious... that white stuff isn't nylon, is it???
But if it were ceramic, that would be cool... wouldn't that solve the problem of electrons running into metal parts?

Um. We spend more on health care but end up less healthy than most industrialized nations. We're dumb with our money. HC has a gun to Congress' head. Rip-off to continue.

Maybe someone discovered there was another AGEE (Aquatic Geophysical Electronic Enterprise?) and had to think up a new one for polywell.