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Solidworks and ProE seem to be preferred for 3-d solid modelling. ProE is good for product development in terms of tracking large complicated assemblies. NX is top of the line and has good animation as well as everything else. (and top dollar) https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/nx/

Professor Science: Ok, here's my understanding. we have the polywell, which can be described as a cube faced with toroidal magnets, configured such that they generate opposing magnetic fields at the center of the cube. This configuration is what keeps electrons clustered majoritively near the center...

This "exploiting the planet's resources" soft-propaganda, mantra that's running rampant is a deadly viral meme for a technologically-based society. It is based on the implicit false premise that all resources are naturally occurring and not man-made. A resource does not exist until a human mind crea...

Okay, as fun as it is to speculate, we've gone from full throttle, well-funded expansion to an overly-wordy procurement notice from a Navvy post office box in China Lake. Sounds like run-of-the-mill, debacle government project. Getting back to the facts of the matter at hand; so can we yet confirm i...

The Navy are going all out, I guess they've seen whatever it was they wanted to see to justify the spending. If the evidence was there it was time to stop pussy-footing around with these two-bit, underfunded, stetched experiments. The govt. just blew $750 billion on big bust banker buddies and scien...

I find the technologies for controlling the plasma more relevant to the Polywell rather than the size.

For instance could a helicon be used for electron manipulation, aka energy recirculation?

seems stabilising the plasma with clever control algorithms has been key ... also an interesting helicon RF technology involved http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=7153 The helicon first stage of the VX-200 VASIMR plasma rocket prototype has achieved its full power rating of 30 kW with Argon propella...

A few months one way or the other is no biggie. We will already be well into the next economic cycle by the time we have a go/no go for building power stations. MSimon: you are assuming there will be another economic cycle. Read Joseph Tainter's "The Collapse of Complex Societies" on why fusion tec...

What exactly is the alternate kinetic theory for plasmas that is needed here?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/05/scisun104.xml Laser beams with enough power to light up every home in Britain for a few microseconds will be used to heat up the nuclear fuel to millions of degrees centigrade in order to trigger the reaction. If successful, the react...

Socialists will be all over fusion like flies on scat. It's the nearest thing to a free lunch as you'll get in the Universe. Also it'll serve as a great mechanism for centralising power if the "right" legislative tools are put in place, all for the good of the children, the old people and the enviro...

Going smaller to check scaling usually isn't a real good idea. It usually gives you overly optimistic results. The concern is that as you go to higher field and larger size the dominant transport mechanism may change (the fastest mechanism always dominates) so going smaller may mask the limiting me...

jmc: you mean massive concentrated government efforts like Tokomak fusion? What a success that turned out to be. Big government projects are more likely to to be big wasteful stuff ups that no one is accountable for, or worse get paid more to perpetuate indefinitely. The free market does not waste s...

However hip and fun the article maybe there is not one hint to answer the screaming title "Why Fusion Proves Elusive". Of course, if one knew the answer as to "why controlled fusion power is elusive" then you could probably subsequently produce it, so I wasn't expecting much after just reading the t...

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