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Since we're circling back to the Rider paper yet again, it seems as if that paper makes three fundamental arguments against IEC: <snip> At least. In 4.1.3, he also mentions that a magnetic field designed to decrease the rate of energy transfer (as in Polywell) between electrons and ions due to breh...

The error bars from the few neutrons counted in the WB6 experiment are far larger than any good scientist or engineer could like. WB7 should resolve that problem with much higher quality and quantity of data. I want the polywell to work. Until we get the data we can't really be sure. Twelve neutron...

Our best bet for dealing with the political fallout is to build a constituency for it. Every one knows we are going to need this sooner or later. Sooner is better. Sooner indeed. I'm not qualified to know who had the physics right. I hope Bussard was but fear he was not. Even if he was, the enginee...

MSimon wrote:Experiments are currently under way (Jan. 2008) by the US Navy to test Dr. Bussard's ideas.

I hope and pray he was right.

I did a Google search for one of the principals, Leonid Grigorov: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Leonid+Grigorov%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official It's not clear if he's the same Leonid Grigorov who took home 400g of plutonium in 2004: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3974...

And, I want a pony. The company claims to be a subsidiary of Magnetic Power, Inc.: http://www.magneticpowerinc.com/index.html Their claims are pretty hi-larious: Magnetic Power Inc’s mission is to supply the world with clean, abundant, and inexpensive electricity. The company is developing technolog...

MSimon wrote:If you are using a circular accelerator (for efficiency and to minimize size) it has to be big to minimize synchrotron losses.

Not to mention buried because radiation leaks from the system would be pretty sizeable and in the x-ray spectrum.

Let me add that district heating has very limited utility in America. We don't use it much. It seems to me that any state in the southwest (Texas and California in particular) facing the ocean could use this heat for desalinating seawater, if it was cheap enough. This is going to be done one way or...

Yow. Put that way, it sounds insurmountable even if Dr. B was right on the physics. There are things you can do. Making the reactor bigger for a given power out is one. Not the best one (for reasons of economics) but, you could do it. The core problem (because of vacuum insulation) is radiation. Si...

Dr. Mike, I'm 99% sure the physics will work out because every doubt I had on that score has been corroborated by independent sources. I believe Dr. B played it totally straight. Dr. B thought the intercept area on a 100 MW reactor would be 20%. That is 20 MW. To say that it is "just engineering" u...

Merry Christmas, one and all.

So if it was all about oil why didn't we just take ownership? This is a good question; the obvious answer is that it would wreck our relations with the other oil states, and you've got to pick your battles (literally, in this case). Why did the U.S. quickly back down after the abortive coup in Vene...

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Not real users, I'm guessing.

Controlled terrestrial fusion or heat death. In the long run those are our choices.

I know this has come up elsewhere, but I thought it might be of interest: http://tinyurl.com/yo5ysz Climate models predict one thing, observations show another: This research, published on-line Wednesday in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology*, raises new concerns...