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A description of the settings (distances, field strength etc) would be helpful. Why in the first video were the molecules expanding in a wafer? wafer like starting conditions? eh, no. perhaps i failed to mention that: what you're seeing there is an affect of the "particle filters". starting conditi...

IECs are far and away the most promising from a purely mechanical perspective, at least if the goal is net energy production. What is the basis for this claim? Not intimately familiar at present with the physics behind some of the other novel approaches being tried, but the tokamaks and the like re...

Eh, if contaminants are a problem, it would seem to me that starting a polywell wouldn't take *that* much effort, so if contaminant buildup would become sufficiently problematic, just shut it down, flush it, and restart every so often. So in a commercial application, a series of polywells could be ...

oh, and the electron and ion sources are both uniform throughout a sphere of half the magrid radius, centered at the origin. this roughly simulates injection by ionization of a neutral gas, with a few extra electrons shot in from the outside. i call this one "W is for Wiffleball". http://www.youtub...

IECs are far and away the most promising from a purely mechanical perspective, at least if the goal is net energy production. I'm holding my breath to see the results of WB-8, simply because a Q>1 (at least net output into the power lines :lol: ) would lead to a huge shortage of qualified people and...