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We're basically mayflies on this globe, testing everything that can be tested, quantifying everything that can be quantified, theorizing about how it all interrelates without really knowing what's more important than what, (though we've got good guesses at a number of things) and then trying to figu...

I don't know about the beer bottle, but while at EMC2 we needed to have an ion pump overhauled by a local vacuum outfit. The owner described to me an episode in which a large chamber with one whole wall composed of the same ion pump element simply refused to pump down to the required level after se...

Concerning cooling, if corrosion can be controlled, wouldnt ocean water work for the heat exchanger? Sure. Steam ships do it. However, the material cost goes way up. It may not be too significant in overall plant cost. However, I'm unaware of significant land based power plants that use sea water c...

but trying to write about a war that would take generations, with essentially no communication between the participants but one-way insults, seems boring to me. I thought for a moment you were talking about 'tokamak research' versus 'other fusion' then!!... :lol: Fits either way, doesn't it? I'll b...

JLawson, I'm out of copies myself. It was available on Fictionwise for a while in e-book format. Sometimes copies show up on e-bay or Amazon. But I could make a .pdf available for forum participants who promise not to publish it or post it on the internet. I'd greatly appreciate it. I've got the is...

I used 20 GW in "El Dorado" but that supposed a spacecraft powerplants derived from one of Doc's QED designs, with two reactors each capable of redlining at 10 GW. He mentioned that value to me but indicated he would never consider pushing them past 60% of that figure. In my plot the reactors were ...

Bussard ramjet has a song, E-I-E-I-O Electrons circling all night long, .... Nice tune. But, need a term for Polywell instead of ramjet. I cannot think of a good two sylable word to use. Perhaps using Fusor like what is used for gridded machines like "Farnsworth Hirsch Fusor" would work. Hmmm. You'...

Bussard ramjet has a song, E-I-E-I-O Electrons circling all night long, E-I-E-I-O With a neutron here and a proton there, tritium and boron everywhere... Bussard ramjet has a song, E-I-E-I-O Second verse, kinda like the first - a little bit louder, a little bit worse... Bussard ramjet has a song, E-...

You can have either energy justification for paternalistic socialist freespending left wing Gubberment, OR you can have energy independence. Take your pick. You can't have both. Windmills: They way to paternalism and an endless supply of unsolved energy problems. And there you hit the nail on the h...

I mean, i guess some people might not want other forms being pursued because economies of scale might diminish, but it's weird how many people only want their tech to proliferate. I don't think there's a reason for a fusion man to give two squats about a wind man as long the both of them are making...

But windmills... where's the excitement in them? Where's the glory? The glory is in stemming the flow of money out of our economies and into the hands of terrorists. At least partially. Oh, yeah - THAT'LL fire up a 10-year old's imagination like nobody's business! I can see the recruiting posters n...

If you're looking to stimulate job growth then energy technology is a better investment than space technology, I would think. We need it more. As for the investment in Polywell technology, I think they're doing what they can under the circumstances. There are peer reviewed papers out there saying t...

The lottery is for people who are bad at math, and if you're haunting this neck of the intertubes, you're probably not that bad at math. Maybe that explains why I very rarely buy a ticket - only when the reward (over $200 mil) approaches or exceeds the chance of winning. (1 in 175 mil or so.) And e...

I'm pretty sure I could build a continuous operation Polywell for $10 million. 3T Magnets. 1 m dia. 100 KV 25 A power. 8 ft on a side square chamber. Vacuum pumps. A shield bldg plus power supply bldg, plus offices and fab shop. Diagnostic eqpt. Engineering. etc. When I win the lottery, you and I a...

I don't understand how this escapes people. I hate to be waxing political here (though there's some politicians I'd gladly apply hot wax to, right before the tar and feathers) but it's a function of our system. A politician's most important job is to get relected. After that, anything he might do i...