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POPS is machine or principle how should ions oscillate around the center? Where I said that POPS is machine?

It would seem here that you said that.

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The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)

And did I call POPS "machine"? I call that "the name of principle". The desired principle how Polywell should work by its inventor and developers.

Yes, POPs is a principle tested in a mirror machine (modified Penning Trap).
Just as Polywell is another principle being tested in a gridless electrostatic confinement machine.

My original point in bring up POPs was that Nebel and Parks were the senior team members for POPs. There was no accident that Bussard picked them for Polywell. Many parallels.

The second point I was seeking clarification on was whether or not you think the POPs machine is a beam machine?

I see them both as volumetric convergence machines with a degree of angular motion. One "surges", one does not.

Another point to consider in your persistant discussion of electron beams, is that Bussard (and Nebel) both thought that Polywell may be able to run without electron sources once scaled up. This was also part of Bussard's critiques of continuing testing on smaller machines.

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The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)

And what would be the Debye length in a region where the mean free path is larger than the size of the chamber?

The Polywell is a vacuum tube, employing electric potentials comparable to particle energy. This one detail sets it apart from most other fusion devices, and invalidates many assumptions standard for other devices. Until you have a good grasp on vacuum tube principles you have no hope of understanding the polywell.

One effect of the potential difference maintained between the magrid and the surrounding recirculation grid is that any charged particles finding their way into the region are pushed towards one side or the other, leaving little for particles to run into.

Far smarter people than you have attempted to prove the polywell can't work, and been persuaded the device has a chance.

Do alphas escape the chamber separately or together with lost ions and lost electrons? I think that together.
And Debye length has nothing to do with free path.
For TOKAMAKs and gas discharges Debye length has an order of 0.1mm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye_length
Thanks. To me all the same will Polywell work or not. I practice in English, I have a little a good time here. For example, your and e.g. Kiteman’s rage amuses me when you are convicted of ignorance of very basic things.
Yes, when I am seeing wrong or doubtful statement - I am correcting. For example your very “smart” statements on uniform current distribution in TOKAMAKs or you today’s confusion of Debye length and free path.

Hanelyp,
So, are you feeling "rage"?
For me it is more humor with a tad of disgust at the willful ignorance of some. But rage? No. I reserve that for things that matter.

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Dan,
Do the numbers... correctly, "think Hydrogen".

Then, I shall ask again.

What actual fusion reactor or fusion-inducing device have you yourself actually constructed?

Note, I am not asking for colleagues, family or friends names here.

I am also not asking for proposed designs.

EMC has built numerous devices.

Some of the people here have done so.

What devices have you actually built?

EMC2 built devices that do not work as desired. I did not build reactor on base of my fusion idea because simply I have not required for that several hundred millions dollars. Some people here built? May be. But only if they used e.g. TV-set's electron gun and vacuum chamber taken and retrofitted from clothes washing machine.

Even 'I' can understand this part. It translates to "no".

Of course, no.

And the basis for your libelous statement is?

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Dan,
Do the numbers... correctly, "think Hydrogen".

These sentence as I understand is taken from official document. Where is POPS - periodically oscillation of ions?

There are people here who are working or who have worked on university projects, government projects and venture capital startups. You have engaged in projecting your limited options in conducting experiments to every one here.

I suggest that you find a job in the field corresponding to your skills and interest; at that point, your opinions will be more credible.

Please consider this a friendly suggestion.

In fusion? I do not see such people here. If to exclude one young man (I forgot his nick) making copy of Polywell.