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Here's one factor-- polywell would make energy cheap-- and their are methods to produce fuel from CO2, but they are very, very energy expensive. Now I doubt it would make gasoline super cheap, but what it would do would stabilize the price of gas-- instead of worrying about price spikes whenever a r...

Flip side-- the polywell could make nuclear terrorism LESS likely, given that it would be far superior to fission plants-- I could see a policy of subsidizing polywell reactors to nations willing to accept limitations on their fission plants, thus limiting the amount of potential bomb quality materi...

Yeah-- the Polywell is pretty useless as a weapon of terror.

A Polywell doesn't produce magnetic fields anywhere near strong enough to attenuate bremsstrahlung (in fact, over most of the plasma the magnetic field is essentially null, due to the wiffleball effect). It depends on the non-Maxwellian two-temperature trick, which requires controlling the virtual ...

The shielding quesiton has been one that fills me with the most confusion-- I've read in some place that the clver use of magnetic fields might essentially eliminate neutron/X-ray radiation, at least from the P+B11 reaction. In other places, I've read that this would be impossible.

One thing you might add to your website, in the section: http://www.polywellnuclearfusion.com/Clean_Nuclear_Fusion/Is_Polywell_Real.html Is stress that even in the Farnsworth fusors, fusion is actually occurring even if w're not seeing net energy production-- one of the big things about cold fusion ...

Here's a question-- in terms of thrust and range, how would Polywell powered QED drives do vs. the Orion style drives that are such a staple of science fiction?

here's a question-- presuming P+B11 works, with the direct conversion, how difficult it is to build compared to a fission plant or a conventional steam plant? It looks, to my admittedly unskilled eye, that polywell plants might actually be easier and less costly to construct, but I can't be certain.

I didn't catch the "interesting physics" comment, but he said third generation and "well down the road." in the part that I heard, so it's likely not impossible but very difficult. the intersteing thing about that is that is that if you could get them that small, you could have a network charging a ...

These days utilities like to buy power plants in the 50MW to 200 MW range. And because safety issues are minimal a Polywell could run unattended. Similar to many nat. gas peaking plants. I wouldn't go that far-- even a direct energy conversion polywell will likely need more than a few guys watching...

Devils advocate mode: But by doing that, the US has artificially increased the cost of oil to where alternatives are now financially viable. That may give us a leg up in development. Yes. And raising the costs of energy hurts the people at the margins. Of course if you are a liberal and really care...

most nations aren't willing to use the most environmentally destructive methods, quite rightly in fact. In fact it is just the opposite. Most nations run by corruptocrats are willing to use the most environmentally destructive methods. And yes - getting off oil is a good thing. It will take about h...

I don't know. The big questin would be would the savings in having your power plants close to the end user (and avoiding losses from transmission) override the expenses of having more power plants. OTH, the notational design we saw was for a 600MW power plant-- and it wouldn't take many of them to c...

You'd have both systems. "Direct drive" is massively simpler and easier to build than turbines and such. Many polywells will be build to run P+B11 and will use this system. On the other hand, the amount of capital needed for a turbine will ensure that people who have been building them will eek out...

Add Venezuela to that list of nations not ding the best job with their oil. Fundametnally, the reason we need fusion or something like it is two fold. 1. Sooner or later oil will either run out, or demand will exceed what we can pump out of the ground-- esepcially when we consider that most nations ...