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Hello Curts, Welcome to Talk-Polywell. I had a look at your previous book. Hmmm. Thirty one million dollars is no mean feat. If you feel like sponsoring someone ... :-) You are right about polywell being underfunded. It should have been proven either right or wrong by now; and Dr. Nebel's work is st...

Hello Kenneth, Welcome to talk-polywell. I had a look at your website, it was a good effort. There were some things I didn't understand. In the graph:- http://www.andromedaspace.com/polymatlab/runs.png you have colour representing something. What is that something? I like the idea of using Matlab. T...

Hello Nanos, Are you thinking of spinning the whole MaGrid? or just the electron field inside the grid? I think it would have to turn at alarmingly high revs per second to get much influence on an electron, as the electron mass is very small, but its charge renders it very susceptible to magnetic fi...

Hello Carlos, Yes the magnetic field is there to contain electrons rather than ionic species (at least in the prototypes). In general, the higher the field strength, the further away the MaGrid can be from the confinement region while still generating a wiffleball. If the field gets up to a certain ...

Hello wisnij, No, there are no users (who have posted one or more times) who have a hyphen in their name. Two have an underscore, but that's it. You can sort the memberlist by posts, and from this you see that there are three pages of users who have posted once or more, and seven pages of zero poste...

Hello jmc,
Thank you for this most enlightening discussion. Much appreciated.

Regards,
Tony Barry

Hello People, I have cranked out my ancient P3 laptop to have a look at Vizimag , a 2D (possibly 3D) magnetic field finite element modeller which produces rather cool renders of magnetic fields. There was a question on the forum about magnetic fields around various shaped coils, and this bit of soft...

Hello Tom, CSA = cross sectional area (previously referenced but poorly indicated, for which I apologise). The path of an electron is not directly along the field line. The more spin the electron has, the more its path resembles a spiral along the field line. The spiral radius is described as the el...

Hello Tom, Once again, great efforts. Yes I understand your drawing; with a superconductor there would definitely be a magnetic field generated by the triangular field coil, even though one leg of the triangle is not contiguous with the other two legs. No problem there. Whether I also understand tha...

Hello MSimon,
At last I understand your post above. My apologies for failing to see your point.
Regards,
Tony Barry

Hello Tom, I take your image here and look at it and I think I see some kind of problem. On the regular polywell, according to Indrek's visualisation, all faces of the MaGrid point the same way (we will assume North face In). On your picture, some of the MaGrid faces point out. If you were to stand ...

Great minds think alike. BitBanger has also posted a link here.

Regards
Tony Barry

Hello Simon, I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that the WB series had all their magnets' North face pointing inwards; and that the return pole was a virtual magnetic face through the holes where three circles "meet". Certainly Indrek's visualisations imply this. Please feel free to corre...

Hello Tom,
Thank you for your massive post. I am going to study it. KUTGW!

Regards,
Tony Barry

Hello Carlos, Welcome to Talk-Polywell. Unfortunately I do not know enough about WB-7 to answer your questions. Most of your questions can really best be answered by Dr. Rick Nebel, who has posted here occasionally. He does have some confidentiality arrangements with the DoD which may preclude us ge...