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Merry Christmas to all, with fingers, toes, and eyes crossed for big news in 2008.

It would be good if the polywell crew could converse on this list (or others if this is not to their liking). It would be a way to recruit a good deal of volunteer effort and free publicity. I second that, if it's legally permissible for them to do so. This is very exciting stuff, and they could po...

BTW that reactor story is at least 2 years old and there has been no follow up I'm aware of. I could see such nukes used in guarded industrial processes. Sitting unguarded in your local neighborhood? Too risky. Once you add guards the cost of electricity goes way up because of the low capacity. Not...

BTW you underestimate Congressional knowledge of the Bussard Reactor. You will see proof of that if WB-7 green lights further efforts. If the energy gods smile in '08 and we do a balls-out development on the full scale reactor, that would be one of the best things this country's done lately. About ...

This is surprising and confusing. Are the DOE's priorities being set for them? Is this fallout from a more general federal budget-trimming, or is this because of disillusionment with ITER? Or both?

And what of other fusion projects like IC?

I made another release, ephi-0.14, this one has tricubic interpolation and sector based data division. See "otree.cpp" for a test application. http://www.mare.ee/indrek/ephi/#download - Indrek Indrek, I've been enjoying the pretty pictures and I'm impressed with your work. As a soon to be physics g...

There are people paying millions of euros to help create perpetual motion machines (check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn as just one example). I would think getting money for real energy devices would be a lot easier to come by. In 2006 Dr Bussard had a letter posted to a James Randi Found...

I'm no geologist but I'd think that if you're in an area that's prone to sinkholes, or already has had them, that would be an argument in favor of pumping up the aquifer.

Bussard spent a lot of Larry Flynt's money

Bob Guccione? Whatever. Yes, strange bedfellows to say the least....

terrific stuff... does it eventually settle down and become static?

... just caught this bit about google pursuing / funding renewable energy, but even though the good Dr B gave his famous talk there, no mention of polywell:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... nergy.html

In light of the tensions over Iran and suggesting a different direction for their nuclear program. Yup. The tone and manner of the Iranian reaction to the announcement of something like this would be revealing. If they really want peaceful nukes, sell them a license to Polywell - it's a cheaper, be...

WB6 magrid coils used 4000 amps over half a millisecond. Ignoring the scaling issues, we need to extract a continuous 4000 amps

If you can use superconducting coils and can keep those babies cold with all the fusion going on, you won't need to power them continuously.

multi-Tesla superconducting field coils

I thought the fields would be on the order of kilogauss?

9) I think the earth's molten core is caused by tidal forces from the moon, not by radioactive decay. Interesting. I'd think you'd be able to check this by calculating work done by the moon's tidal drag vs joules needed to keep the Earth's core hot. Just as a guess, I'd think that if the moon were ...