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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Of course oil is renewable. Take heat and high pressure, add organic substances, wait 50 million years. And fusion does NOT work. You people really are delusional.

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...

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...

Seem to be some tumbleweeds blowing around in here.

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...

darn. Can't believe I screwed that up....

No updates lately though, eh?

I tried to access www.emc2fusion.com website and it wouldn't load.

Guess that means Bussard has a Navy gag order?

I guess I'm not that interested. Fact is it's unproven technology, the physics is rather obscure, and Bussard isn't talking.

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...

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...

I always seem to be off-topic.