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- Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:31 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 64435
Re: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
I wouldn't be surprised if sub was a player (or even paid troll) in one of the energy industries currently in existence. Sure. Troll. Whatever. I traded a few emails with Dr. Bussard a couple months before he died. He attempted to convince me that the issues raised by Rider had been addressed in th...
- Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 64435
Re: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
At the comments to my American Thinker article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/fusion_energy.html We have a sceptic (several posts by sceptic check them out): Posted by: WR Jonas Jun 19, 01:18 PM I have spoken out here about my skepticism based on a provable dynamic and truth . There will a...
- Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: wired and nextbigfuture Oct 25 and 26
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46189
As to our insane-o-maniac. Reminds me of a feller we had a while back who got himself banned. The only banning in the history of this board. His handle: isochroma. You can search it if you want to see some really ugly stuff. I will just say this about that. We are products of supernovas and belong ...
- Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: wired and nextbigfuture Oct 25 and 26
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46189
doesn't mean there's an infinite number of barriers waiting to pop up the harder we look. No. Just a few insurmountable ones, perhaps... The universe isn't out to trick us, that is true. The universe is simply oblivious to our existence and gives us no sustenance. We must sieze what we can and inge...
- Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: wired and nextbigfuture Oct 25 and 26
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46189
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:50 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: wired and nextbigfuture Oct 25 and 26
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46189
Oil can come from many sources. That doesn't change the fact that it will become more scarce in the future. The whole idea of "peak oil" comes from the established fact that oil production has in peaked in the United States. It is expected to do so elsewhere as well. When it does, the price will ine...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: "The verdict is positive"
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57118
So Nebel's results were not unambiguous. For the next step in his research I would focus on eliminating the ambiguity. After all, there were many versions and iterations of tokamaks built to understand what was going on inside them. There are countless phenomena unique to tokamaks, and I expect ther...
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:14 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: So... what if it didn't work?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 23051
- Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:18 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Imagining the Tenth Dimension
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2557
Recurring Themes in Mathematics
The Pythagoreans (~500 BC) were first to theorize that the universe could be understood through numbers. "The importance of pure numbers is central to the Pythagorean view of the world. A point was associated with 1, a line with 2 a surface with 3 and a solid with 4. Their sum, 10, was sacred and om...
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:49 am
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: Bussard's Website Taken Down?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7439
- Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:33 pm
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: Bussard's Website Taken Down?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7439
Bussard's Website Taken Down?
I tried to access www.emc2fusion.com website and it wouldn't load.
Guess that means Bussard has a Navy gag order?
Guess that means Bussard has a Navy gag order?
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:08 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Energy Balance Formula for Polywell
- Replies: 30
- Views: 22030
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:56 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Energy Balance Formula for Polywell
- Replies: 30
- Views: 22030
25 MW is drive energy. I assume that means current x voltage for the 6 electromagnets. They drive the electrons magnetically toward the center reaction zone. That takes energy. For a gain = 4, that means drive power is 1/4th of the fusion power. Hence, 25 million watts (25 MW) drive power and 100 MW...
- Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:32 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Energy Balance Formula for Polywell
- Replies: 30
- Views: 22030
Energy Balance Formula for Polywell
I posted this on the Nasa Spaceflight forum in June. Note that at the time the constants K1 and K2 were unknown for Bussard's scaling rule. If anyone would care to fill them in, it would show some progress here, and we could actually estimate the size of the reactor for a desired power output. Hypot...
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: Evangelical forums??!?!!?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14124