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Here are a couple of questions: What is the size of WB7 and WB8? What is the maximum magnetic field of WB7 and WB8? Have WB7 and/or WB8 shown plasma instabilities that need to be mitigated? What have been the greatest technical difficulties experienced with WB7 and WB8? Will data on WB7 and WB8 be p...

Here are some interesting articles on the history of the U.S. Fusion Program: How the Malthusians Crushed The U.S. Fusion Program by Megan Beets in EIR Science, 14 pages, 14th May 2014 http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2014/2014_20-29/2014-20/pdf/61-74_4120.pdf This one is a slightly shorter ver...

Now, if only Tri-Alpha would chime in with some news, the week would be perfect? TAE still does not have an web page of their own, but as of this week they do have a dedicated page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri_Alpha_Energy Now if Lockheed Martin Skunk Works would give an update on...

EMC2 has published this polywell preprint on arXiv: High Energy Electron Confinement in a Magnetic Cusp Configuration Jaeyoung Park, Nicholas A. Krall, Paul E. Sieck, Dustin T. Offermann, Michael Skillicorn, Andrew Sanchez, Kevin Davis, Eric Alderson, Giovanni Lapenta We report experimental results ...

"New" FPDS update: Modification Number - P00019 Spacer New Save Draft Validate Approve Correct Modify Save As Template Delete Print Help Transaction Information Award Type: Definitive Contract Prepared Date: 02/20/2014 11:13:56 Prepared User: KIM.MATSUNAGA.N68936@NAVY.MIL Award Status: Final Last M...

Here is an recent article about the award that General Fusion won. Hardware Beats Software at NextBC Tech Showcase General Fusion wins gold for innovation at DigiBC’s first high-tech conference When General Fusion’s Laberge was asked how long it would take before he actually sold a product, however,...

The EMC2 executive director is Hafha Cole according to this page http://companies.findthebest.com/l/20551849/Energy-Matter-Conversion-Corporation-in-San-Diego-CA : Company Information Organization Energy/Matter Conversion Corporation Alternate Names Emc2 Office Location 9155 Brown Deer Rd Ste 4 San ...

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/pubcovers/p1562cov.jpg Fusion Physics is a textbook published by the IAEA that can be bought for 90 EUR in a paper edition of downloaded for free in PDF format from http://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/8879/Fusion-Physics DESCRIPTION This publication is a comprehensi...

I still have hope for some of the other players. MSNW recently built a new prototype for their Helion fusion engine, Tri Alpha also has a new prototype up and running (I just saw it mentioned in a paper I read the other day). Sure, it is nice with so many contenders in the race. It would be even be...

Patrick Carle has made his PhD thesis with General Fusion: Polarimeter for an Accelerated Spheromak http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12163 He has also given this interesting presentation about his work "Overview of Plasma Diagnostics at General Fusion" http://media.cns-snc.ca/uploads/no-05-patrick-carle-p...

The race towards break even has become even more interesting now that JET is attempting to break their record from 1997 by running in 2017 with DT. LPP has as their target achieving break even with pB11, but in order to do that they will have to achieve a triple product value larger than the limit f...

Six years to this test/ demo in a machine that is already working? I suspect this is a final test with all the knobs turned to Full, after they have exhausted their current research program. It might be more risky, but if it is at the end of the machine lifetime anyway... It would be perhaps useful...

BBC News has this article "UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record" by Paul Rincon: Prof Steve Cowley told the BBC a go-ahead to run Jet at maximum power would allow scientists to try for the record by the end of the decade. This could bring Jet up to the coveted goal of "breakeven" where fusio...

In Physics Today there is an article "Livermore ends LIFE" by David Kramer: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has quietly shelved a program that was developing a design for a plant that generates electricity from laser fusion. The Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) program was meant to provide...

Here is an article I missed, but is perhaps one of the most enlightening in many ways. EMC2 should look at GF's way of doing things top to bottom, that is assuming EMC2 is looking to do some things... http://www.profitguide.com/manage-grow/innovation/meet-the-firm-that-could-revolutionize-energy-se...