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Well, I hear about things like the alleged Pioneer anomaly and I wonder. And this might explain that. After review, this is interesting, but seems a bit amateurish. I'm not sure how you can fit a positive mass antigravitational particle into the Standard Model, and calling them "transparent" is a li...

Multi-gridded! Cool. And it seems to boost confinement. I wonder if this can be applied to Polywell setups.

Isn't laser induced fluourescence what they used to show the well forming in that Japanese study? Apparently it was too expensive for these guys.

He says there is a difference of at least 10 to 1 between good and bad coders. Given the right tools I can make the difference 100 to 1. True across all programming, I think. And having the right tools is so important. I mostly work with 4GL embedded database languages. I can't begin to tell you th...

jlumartinez wrote:We should be patient .

Bah. There'll be plenty of time to be patient when I'm dead.

It's true funding is the main concern, and I agree the most important thing is that Bussard and company are going forward with the project. That said, Bussard's next machine is supposed to be produce repeatable tests that will be vetted by experts, and the more publicity generated for that event the...

Simon, it sounded like you heard there was going to be an announcement at some point. Is that still true as far as you know? Or does the contract perhaps mandate otherwise? Given that Ligon has confirmed the contract and we have an email purportedly from Bussard, I'm assuming this isn't some elabora...

OK, I figured I had made a mistake somewhere, but looks like 1e9 was just a rough Bussard estimate. Fair enough, he's not exaggerating much. Obviously, 1e8 is still very significant. Actually, I feel much more confident about this now that I have a better understanding of the test results. Four test...

More substantively, the objection on the basis of "only three neutrons" seems a bit off. It appears they actually detected 12 neutrons -- four test runs in each of which three neutrons were detected in the .25 millisecond the potential well was active. If it were only one test with three neutrons, y...

Okay, tests were estimated at .4 milli. The Valencia paper says 3 neutrons detected on 3 occasions. So... 1e9 per sec, 1e6 per milli, 4e5 for the test runs of . 4 milli. If detection is 1/1.3e4, then 4e5/1.3e4 works to 3e1, or 30. Am I missing something here? Seems to be off by an order of magnitude...

Yes, the graph is somewhat confusing, as it gives a time-scale in days. It seems to say they detected 3 neutrons three times.

I've seen criticism of the WB-6 results that claim it only resulted in detection of "four neutrons" or other single digit numbers. I found this in the Polywell Wikipedia discussion from Tom: The actual measurements on WB6 were neutrons detected, with about 1.3e4 neutrons produced per neutron detecte...

MSimon wrote:Gillette makes the Fusion Razor.

Perhaps they might want to get in on Fusion Power?

I'm going to drive over to Rockford and slap you for that.

I'm still at 1 in 3 myself.

But oh, if it works...

Dietz seems to be a programmer with some interest in science threads. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paul+F.+Dietz His argument style (at least re polywell) is, shall we see, a bit pugnacious. I wouldn't take his objections too seriously. I think he's just the type who likes to fight online. A...

Right, when I said "full-scale" I meant net power: the Phase II 100MW demo Bussard talks about. I probably should have been more explicit. http://www.emc2fusion.org/ Fusion R&D Phase 2 - Design, Build and Test Full Scale 100 MW Fusion System 5 years, $200M Testing is the big question. I'm wondering ...