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by spaccemonkey
Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:49 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
Replies: 27
Views: 18078

Donations

http://prometheusfusionperfection.wordpress.com/ is accepting donations to help pay for his experiments.
by spaccemonkey
Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:07 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Spherical and hierarchic grids
Replies: 30
Views: 17003

ankovacs says in http://www.broadbit.net/download/Spherical-Polywell-geometry_v2.pdf In summary, slow electrons are turned back by towards center by electric force, and fast electrons are reflected magnetically The charge on the magnetic grid is not relevant to the behavior of a charged particle ins...
by spaccemonkey
Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
Replies: 27
Views: 18078

riprap

Ya, that's why it's on my list of things to do.

Back to the topic at hand, how small could you make a copper coiled truncated cube magrid and still get usefull data out of it. More to the point, would it be more economical to do so as a test bed?
by spaccemonkey
Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:56 am
Forum: News
Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
Replies: 27
Views: 18078

I am not understanding why he puts so much faith in the reprap machine. The stuff it can make is extremely limited by size, material, and tolerance. <sarcasm> True, but building your own prototyper is what all the cool kids are doing. </sarcasm> Also there is a convince factor involved in having th...
by spaccemonkey
Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:49 am
Forum: News
Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
Replies: 27
Views: 18078

What kind of figures of money expenses wise did you have in mind ? (Hundreds of dollars, thousands ?) I was thinking that, if this person really intends to go the distance with this, that the power supplies alone where going to be quite expensive. Add to that the vacuum equipment and chamber, plus ...
by spaccemonkey
Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Building an Open Source Bussard Reactor
Replies: 27
Views: 18078

frustration

Honestly I'm half tempted to give this guy money to help him cover expenses... yes, he has no real hope of building anything that works (realistically, how many of us could afford the power supplies or vacuum chamber?) BUT he could actually give us some hard numbers. That is what is most lacking on ...
by spaccemonkey
Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:16 am
Forum: News
Topic: "The verdict is positive"
Replies: 99
Views: 57118

review

I don't suppose that anyone has any information on when the results of the wb7 will be published? Did they attempt fusion, or was this just a test of the confinement? So many questions, so little data. I'd like to just know if this is reasonable or not, do we have a new fusser with no possibility of...
by spaccemonkey
Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:19 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Electron interactions with the magnetic field
Replies: 56
Views: 25437

I could be completely off base here

Looking at the videos of the single electron simulations, the paths reminded me more of a marble in a bowl. So, would it be fair to say that the whiffle ball is more of an asymptotic potential well where the energy to escape through a cusp is sufficiently high that few electrons have that much energ...
by spaccemonkey
Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:07 am
Forum: News
Topic: found on the Los Alamos website
Replies: 5
Views: 5030

opps

Well, looks like google failed me on that one. The Los Alamos page had a revision date of Dec 08 2008, so I had assumed that the information was more recent.
by spaccemonkey
Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: found on the Los Alamos website
Replies: 5
Views: 5030

found on the Los Alamos website

http://www.lanl.gov/p/rh_pp_park.shtml Primarily about POPS though they reference two papers that have ,as far as I know, not been published: J. Park et al., “First experimental confirmation of periodically oscillating plasma sphere (POPS) oscillation,” submitted to Physical Review Letters. R.A. Neb...