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If you refer to GW, opinions will differ about the cost of the alternative, the cost of doing nothing, and especially the likelihood. And here in lies the biggest problem. Opinions differ on what temperature will look like in 2100 if human CO2 contributions continue at current rates. Opinions diffe...

Yes, indeed I'm confused. And to further extend my confusion I'll argue further. First, my understanding of a a Faraday cage is that it is a barrior against electrostatic fields, it doesn't say anything about what fields may exist within or outside of it. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefin...

It's all proposals and ideas! 25 years down the road on tokamak, they were already researching neutron bombardment of selected materials. So Polywell is way way behind, then, it does not yet know what the actual problems are yet to even start developing the experiments that might find out what ques...

For those ions scattered off their radial paths, i.e. with a circumferential component, is there any mechanism that brings them back into a radial path, or do they keep their angluar momentum about the centre? The term 'annealing' has been mentioned a few times. I have no idea what that is, but wha...

1) The principles behind the idea that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause the temperature of the Earth to rise is straightforward and not a stretch in any sense. (As far back as 1896 it was suggested that doubling Earth's atmospheric CO2 could cause a 5 degree C rise in temps). Without debatin...

From the list of references you give for NAS's report you'll notice that Brifa and Schweingruber show up multiple times in the list. They are also the authors of the article I pointed out above: "Large-scale temperature inferences from tree rings: a review". The one were they note as part of their l...

One important point that a few posters here seem to miss. Climate models are about global temperature changes. These are much less variable than local temperature changes, which can show many long-term and short-term pertutbations due to changes in weather patterns. Agreed, but the tree ring data a...

MSimon wrote:Tree-Ring-Based Spring Temperature Patterns over the Past Four Centuries in Western Himalaya

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I have been arguing in this thread that if there were a bunch of electrons at the middle, they would be pulled out towards the ions equally and oppositely to the ions they are supposedly pulling in. This sets a limit to the number of ions that can be pulled in. This is something Art stated more elo...

Yep. That's how I saw it, but my misunderstanding has been corrected now. It does not appear that there is a ball of electrons, in excess of the ions around it, at the centre. I'd curious why you don't believe there will be an excess of electrons in the centre. From everything Bussard ever said the...

The entire philosophy behind the polywell design was to make a grid-less fusor so you could scale up without burning out the grid That's what I thought originally when I started posting a few days ago. But, no, this does not seem to be the case. Some sort of potential gradient is formed by means I ...

Exactly. I am talking about a fast-aimed sphere versus a fast-aimed toroid. I am NOT talking about Polywell versus tokamak. The 'wiffleball' seems to be regarded as ideal - why? - because it is a continuous magnetic surface. So why not exploit the best magnetic surface possible for the fast-aimed i...

I still insist the biggest problem with the 'unprecedented' warming argument and defense of it is the temperature record itself. Even groups like the IPCC state that direct and indirect temperature measurements independently confirm each other in showing an unprecedented temperature spike in the las...

<I> GC models are based on physics and tested (not fitted) over 100,000s of years of historical data. </I> My beef with this is where the datasets are coming from. We don't have direct measurements of any variables going back any more than 100 years, and the ones that go back even that far are of qu...

We can do just as good a job these days with magnetic field measuring eqpt. Or for that matter in a static situation with field simulators. Once you get a lot of plasma and electron guns etc. things get complicated. The strange thing about this thread is that it's clear the basics are not agreed on...