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Getting myself up to speed on this one, is the tangential NBI part of the technology, or just an artist's rendition of some other phenomenon?

This is really exciting, particularly in Texas, because of all the abandoned oil and gas wells in the state. These could easily be reopened and bored further to tap geothermal. The picture of the bore cross-section is really nice, because it makes this a technology that ACTUAL WORKS, and works as ad...

So, bang two spinning (counter-rotating? not clear from the paper) rings of plasma together at (presumably) high frequency to get fusion? Is that the gist of it?

If Trudeau up there had diverted even a tithe of all the money he was wastefully throwing around on woke causes (or just plain losing track of), General Fusion could have been funded to the hilt. A lot better of an investment in the future of the world, in my opinion, especially given how they are ...

baking wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:12 am

Maybe this is a better venue because there can be so much noise on Reddit.

My experience on Reddit has been that the name of the subreddit generates only opposing discussion. r/fusion? Only people that say it will never happen, or a bunch of ITER die-hards.

Polywell will always have a special place in my personal research journey. Agreed. I, and I'm sure others as well, had visions of Polywells powering ships with Mach-effect thrusters traversing the solar system. We may not get the later, but certainly the former is still alive and kicking, and for t...

Absolutely insane engineering there! I did not believe they would be able to do it at the very first attempt but they did! Science Fiction is boring in comparison! Watching the video shot from the top of the tower with the arms ever so gently squeezing the booster, the controls team needs a raise a...

B field strength also seems low compared to other projects. Is this due to the size?

I hope that it solved your doubts. It did clear up some things, so thank you. What wasn't mentioned in the paper, or maybe it was and I glossed over it, was whether or not the goal is a pulsed-mode or continuous operation. 300 kV is a lot of voltage to try and maintain over long spans time. We're t...

Just finished reading the paper. Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you keep the ions from crashing into the cathode at the required KEs needed for fusion? Is that the breakthrough here, that the feedthroughs are such that the cathode voltage can be dialed high enough to prevent this?

Maybe, I was more optimistic about that before all the articles featuring uninformed tokamak PhDs disparaging the technology. If I may put my tinfoil hat on for a moment, the media-research-government complex will take a huge black eye when Helion or some other "fringe" fusion technology beats the ...

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:25 pm

The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia.

Good to know. RIP dear friend.

Go Helion Go!

Giorgio wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:06 pm

Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought (sic)

Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life.

DAC is the golden child at Oxy. Don't ask how I know this.

It is just me, or does that thruster have a nice, old-school starship sci-fi vibe to it? I guess life does imitate art sometimes.