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Personally, I think that the Navy is simply trying to keep DOE out of their business. I don't blame them, either. Excellent Point. Low budget is low level. As soon as it seems like a solution, and gets a real budget, it'll bite the dust. For evidence we only need to look at the Integral Fast reacto...

joedead wrote:The Holy Roman Church of Polywell? Who gets to be the pope?

Well the first one was clearly Bussard. I'd say that makes Nebel the current pope, but he's clearly too skeptical.

And where does that leave Art Carlson? Does that make him like a Martin Luther or something?

MSimon wrote:

Navy trained nuke

What ship?

THE 688. First and finest. Still truckin out there, I might add.

And I'm sure still with gobs more EFPH left in her core than she will ever use based on hull life.

What I have presented here is, in my opinion, the most complete and consistent theory of polywell physics there is. Explanations by Bussard and others sometimes contradict themselves, sometimes contradict known physics, and resort to handwaving at an early stage. The published experimental basis on...

It is too bad NASA doesnt make use of these materials. A contractor was supposed to have launched a flight article to test SHARP materials but the project was cancelled by NASA without explaination other than that it was 'duplicate research' (there was no similar project currently or previously und...

So liquid H is cheaper than He? Just out of curiousity, how do they compare with LN2? LN2 is about $1 per liter. Less in high volume. A truckload (I think around 25,000 liters) is about $.75 a liter. I have also seen numbers between $.10 and $.50 per liter. LN2 is .81 kg/l. The $.75 price assumes a...

I think jabowery makes one of the most interesting forays into the very basics of economic activity that I've read since reading the Sowell primers on economics. Simon, I disagree that moving more in that direction requires overturning the apple cart completely. For one thing, the clearest part of t...

Not specific enough to excite anyone, but as one who deals with DOD budgets, wanted to point out --since the election we have all been sitting on our hands with regard to funding. I think the Joint Chiefs were planning to sit on all the money until February if they could. The purpose was to allow FY...

not to pick on you Aero, but your post encapsulates a lot of what others are saying. Let me just give a little perspective from the government contracting side: I am still thinking that this is more than stand around and wait money. The two new contracts don't say, "At Ease!" they say: "Attention to...

Just out of curiosity, since we're talking whose electric drive is bigger, badder, and meaner, if the polywell was working today, would it be trivial to build a REB or QED engine? Bussard often discussed those, with some fairly unbelievable T/W and ISP numbers to my mind -- what prevents these engin...

Speaking as someone who has to deal with DOD budgeting, I can see where it might be desireable to keep this program as low-profile as possible until there is something concrete to report. Otherwise it might attract unwanted attention, especially in times of tight budgets. And by concrete I mean a pe...

There were plenty of advancements in the Falcon 1 btw. Firstly, the Merlin engine is the highest ISP kerosene engine ever built, secondly it is reusable, and throttlable. 304 seconds Isp? Far from the highest Isp LOX/RP-1 engine ever built. Yeah, the RD-180, the Russian Lox/Kerosene engine on the A...

I don’t have any new information regarding the results of the review process, but I think that some hints have been dropped already. Check my logic, and remember, I’m desperate for news. Recall a post by MSimon Assessing research options is challenging when the goals are beyond known physics and wh...

edit : what may be the cause of the delays about the wb-7 working/not working, is it entirely physics related or can the navy be pinchy when it comes to money ? The Navy simply has to many Navy officers in it for it's own good, of course this is coming from an ex enlisted man who may have spent to ...

Here's an apocalyptic theory: War with Iran/ quasi-war with Russia is about to break out, so the government has classified Polywell and sequestered Rnebel in Cheyenne mountain with the Stargate (jk) for a final Manhatten-style project to build a fleet of SSTOs that will allow us to rule the moon.......