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by tonybarry
Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:23 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Virtual Polywell
Replies: 468
Views: 202549

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...
by tonybarry
Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:18 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Virtual Polywell
Replies: 468
Views: 202549

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

Regards,
Tony Barry[/b]
by tonybarry
Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:36 am
Forum: General
Topic: This can only be good
Replies: 39
Views: 19125

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

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:13 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Virtual Polywell
Replies: 468
Views: 202549

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...
by tonybarry
Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:40 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: 1981 Omni interview with Robert Bussard
Replies: 17
Views: 12591

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...
by tonybarry
Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:26 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Two aloof elements could form a superconductor
Replies: 10
Views: 6620

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...
by tonybarry
Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:08 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: WB-6 tests results: FOUR successful tests. Lab notes
Replies: 35
Views: 27561

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.

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:05 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: WB-6 tests results: FOUR successful tests. Lab notes
Replies: 35
Views: 27561

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...
by tonybarry
Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:03 am
Forum: Design
Topic: Sputtering From Alpha Impacts
Replies: 25
Views: 17250

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...
by tonybarry
Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:56 am
Forum: Design
Topic: Sputtering From Alpha Impacts
Replies: 25
Views: 17250

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?

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:56 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Some Silly Ideas
Replies: 11
Views: 7530

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)?
Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:48 pm
Forum: Implications
Topic: Kick the tires, light the fires...
Replies: 27
Views: 23517

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 ...
by tonybarry
Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:19 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Some Silly Ideas
Replies: 11
Views: 7530

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...
by tonybarry
Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: DOE Increase Cut $400 Million
Replies: 9
Views: 6995

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

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: Fusion Enthusiast Looking For Comments
Replies: 1
Views: 2405

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

Regards,
Tony Barry