First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:59 am

That sounds promising.

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/static/TALKS/1 ... tthewc.ppt

TallDave · Post by **TallDave** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:03 am

Hey... am I hallucinating or did they build their own little Polywell over in Sydney?!?

N Krall reports observing potential wells as deep as the energy of the e-gun
Too early for us to make comparisons to their findings
Our e-gun currents are a factor of 1000 smaller than the e-gun used by Krall

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:48 am

Great find, and great news too!
The more people/pubblic institutions works on this technology the more data we will get to better understand if the polywell is indeed the technological breaktrought that we all belive is.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:35 pm

D'uh, it's in PowerPoint. It's as accessible as a 'busy' doc from the latest version of Word...

kurt9 · Post by **kurt9** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:55 pm

The Navy funding of the EMC2 effort is creating incentives for other groups to research the same technology.

Betruger · Post by **Betruger** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:54 pm

TallDave wrote:Hey... am I hallucinating or did they build their own little Polywell over in Sydney?!?

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:26 pm

awe, isnt it a cute little polyweeeell!
So small and already in a nuclear lab all by itself...

Betruger · Post by **Betruger** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:35 pm

But it's got teeth!

JohnP · Post by **JohnP** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:52 pm

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?

chrismb · Post by **chrismb** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:57 pm

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.

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:27 pm

TallDave wrote:That sounds promising.

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/static/TALKS/1 ... tthewc.ppt

It's very interesting that they went to the trouble of building this. I wonder why they couldn't get a better vacuum chamber than a bell jar ?

JohnP · Post by **JohnP** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:33 pm

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.

chrismb · Post by **chrismb** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:49 pm

JohnP wrote:
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.

Not necessarily (density, flux, etc), but, yeah, I'd not stick it where it would come into contact with plasma/ion stuff.

If it is teflon then what this might be is a magnetic field tester to see what the field levels/properties are. If they have/are expecting a rarerefied environment with very light ionisation, teflon might do.

But it's just guesswork that it's teflon/mag. field tester, so I'll not venture any more speculations.

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:46 pm

A Polywell Corvette motor! All I ask is 370KW (500 HP).

Skipjack · Post by **Skipjack** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:55 pm

Gee, I would already be happy with a normal 66 KW car engine, you know for the every day comuting and all that.
Same thing again for the electricity in my house

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First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype

First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype

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