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Tip of the day ... code for clarity, not for speed. What you may perhaps save in nanoseconds of CPU time you will more than lose in days of bug squashing. Optimising is done late in the dev cycle. Generally with the aid of profiling tools, which point to where the cycles get eaten. And that's almost...

Hello drmike,
Keep up the great work. I'm just sorry I cannot help you.

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Tony Barry[/b]

Nah, he's just exercising his democratic right to free speech.

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Tony Barry

Matlab has a distributed computing toolbox which will run parallel code on four cores in one machine. For an additional fee, you can buy worker licences to run on a farm. These run on Apple as well as PC hardware. Unfortunately, Not Cheap At All. dch24, I like the idea. I can put in AUD100. Via Payp...

Real science is not about being right or wrong. It's being honest with your findings, and reporting them clearly. Now it's harder to get a "negative" paper published unless it has some interest factor that makes it a bit sexier (or something). But negative papers do get published. I understand Bussa...

With engineering, there are always ways to do stuff. The trick is to find the most efficient way (lowest cost, least time to manufacture, most reliable). Right now, each polywell MaGrid magnet looks to be a series of concentric toruses (torii?) with LHe, LNx, and finally water, flowing in them to fo...

Roger, Simon indicated that to his knowledge, neutrons were emitted isotropically from the polywell. Of course some angles will be shielded by the MaGrid and other structures.

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Tony Barry

Roger, you have it right. (micro)seconds of operation * (4pi steradians / solid angle subtended by detector) * counts. There is of course some statistical work to be done to account for background noise. The trouble with three counts is that there isn't a lot of counts to work from. The good thing i...

Thank you Simon for the quick reply. I was reading elsewhere about a spinning black hole (surely something totally unlike a polywell) and thought that if you could spin things very fast, you might get preferential emission from something like the polar jets and the equatorial edge. Of course it is m...

Good to have your posts here, Tom. Please keep posting as you have time.

Is it possible that the helium nuclei (alpha particles) exit from the zone of fusion at predetermined angles from the entry paths? If so perhaps we can avoid having things in their way?

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Tony Barry

Hello Tom,
Thank you for this heads-up, and the many other insights you have been able to share. I am especially pleased that there will be peer-review on the polywell experiments. Will the results be published (even in summary)?
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Tony Barry

Startup for a polywell seems to involve a few things ... ** the vacuum ** the LHe for the superconductors ** the coolant for the MaGrid ** the polywell initiations sequence - establish a mag field - establish the electric fields - pump in some electrons, add a few ions to almost balance, - keep the ...

Hello ccain, welcome to the forum. The peak oil people have a serious point, though whether it will come as a knife edge or a blunt instrument is not yet clear. Personally I lean to the blunt instrument idea, where oil gradually dries up and humans have a few years to develop alternate sources of en...

Public pressure can keep the alphas going. It's a two way street.

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Tony Barry

Went and wrote. Hope he visits. All thinking on the subject is a help.

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Tony Barry