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What I just noticed was the "Full and Open Competition" statement. The last was Sole Sourse with a J&A. Maybe this IS something new. Sure. Anybody with a WB-6, a WB-7.1, all prior reports, and all previously discovered testing data, etc, which is all just sitting around taking up space in their gar...

The demonstration was held as part of a seven-day IAP ("Independent Activities Period") course at MIT. [-------snip----------] the energy gain, while small, was long-lived, and it was conducted in an academic institution, which suggests that the data will eventually all be made public. Swartz and H...

President Obama said, We can also spur energy innovation with new incentives. The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change. But there's no reason why Congress shouldn't at least set a clean energy standard that creates a market for i...

MSimon wrote:Looks like we hit

200

And that is 200 pages on the new thread... The old thread
on the subject made it to 246 pages, before the new thread
took over....

Diogenes wrote:Saw this idea 20 years ago. It was crap then and it's crap now. For those interested, Youtube had a lot of videos regarding free energy machines. Some are even entertaining.

In This House, We Obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!

The one little tidbit I'll offer is that they no longer leave their garage bay door open. Evidently some people were nosy! Other than that, I'll say it is really shiny. Since we have so little to go on with that, lets see if we can mine that for every scrap we can get... What is the antecedent for ...

It is like arguing that if you take a sandwich, and keep eating half of what you have in hand, and keep doing it twice as fast, you will never run out of food, or be hungry. Mathematically sound, but in the real world pure nonsense. A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were asked to answer ...

Given the current mess, I am pretty sure that we can put the libertarian versus conservative stuff on the shelf until we can get the Left out of power in Washington. Please remember that we conservatives and the libertarians view the Alinskyite Left as rivals; they view us as the enemy, and act acc...

The U.S. NRC commission has made an exception to its long standing policy of charging a great deal of money while doing nothing whatsoever...
with the approval today of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor for use in the USA....

The 6.6m break even radius size would seem indicate that the building needed to house the reaction chamber would be aprox. 90 foot on a side minimum. What throws me a little is the scaling of his diagram on page 2. Does anyone know how big that object is? So for useful power we need a reaction cham...

SOrry for the nubie question, but when the presentation talks about "Bremsstrahlung losses ≈ 1/3 fusion output power", is this effectively x-ray energy? Yup. The ions undergoing fusion are mixed with electrons of roughly the same temperature. When these electrons collide with the ions, they emit x-...

olivier wrote:Terrapower have far better chance that it will work with control rods than without.

It will just just fine without control rods... Little Boy didn't have control rods and it worked just fine, however briefly and inefficiently. It all depends on your definition of the word "work".

I guess that the amateur LENR enthusiast will need to somehow grind nickel in the regular atmosphere. This will cause an oxide layer on all particles. This powder is then loaded in a vacuum chamber, and a turbo pump is used (and perhaps a cryopump afterwards). The powder is then heated or somehow e...

Right, nickel is fissioning to create sulpher, chlorine, potassium, and calcium. They can't even count protons! Maybe they didn't notice the EVEN lighter fission products that would be necessary. But the products are STABLE? Oh shit, now they can't even count neutrons! Odd that. If sulfur is produc...

Fuel costs, of course, are on the order of $5-$10 per MW-year. Invisibly small. Ah. Well. We have paper estimates. The real world will be different. Usually worse. The Polywell guys estimate power delivered costing from 50% of current low end prices to 100% for initial units. Improving with develop...