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That's quite spectacular.

Here is the other one:
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/ ... Slough.pdf

I think they wanted to make some sort of electromagnetic shield to protect the crew. Of course that would also need a A LOT of energy. Yes, there was a couple of projects funded by NASA for a moon base shielding based on electrostatic magnetic field. One of the final reports is this: http://www.nia...

The conference was in February.

It's research founded with public money, and so it is only logic that it must be made public. It was time that the judiciary system started to realize this obvious point. It might chance completely the way that the research world makes research, thought I am not sure if in better or worst. I am very...

As for direct damage to the blades, low time/high concentration or long time/low concentration is mostly the same. In the end it gets down to total kinetic energy absorbed by the turbine blades, with damages generally increasing toward the external of the blades due to greater peripherical speed (a...

Aero wrote: A question - does water vapor reach high altitudes in the atmosphere, above, say, 20 miles?

Let's see, that's about 30.000 Mt.
Yes, you still have relative humidity at that altitude.

Photos show ash impact on engines - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36649628/ns/us_news-environment Interesting wear and tear. Evidently it doesn't take much. Does anyone know how much air a jet engine breaths during a trip through an ash cloud? Is one particle the same as the next? That is, does flyin...

Disruptions in air travel was mainly due to to the point that no responsible was willing even to take the slightest chance of a problem happening. This was done against the recomendations of most of the pilots and airlines that was suggesting to limit the flight denial area to a specific area of the...

Are you suggesting a circular magnetic Halback configuration?
Something like this?
http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/nlc/ ... -067_2.pdf

kcdodd wrote:What would it invalidate? My understanding is magnetic monopoles would simply add more terms to the equations we already have.

Magnetic monopoles would simply render Polywell and other fusion machine useless for energy generation, at least earthwise.

AcesHigh wrote:too bad its not THE Orion... (nuclear pulse propulsion)

That wa actully also my hope when I read the title of the post....

After optimization? They still need to prove that it can work... even worst, they are still discussing on the choice of construction material for most of the mechanical parts of that beast. Let's talk about this 40 years from now, when (maybe) they will be able to demonstrate a working reactor and w...

If you mean a working machine I think we could have built it only since the availability of commercial Superconductors, so only from few years.
Even now there are few hurdles that will not be easy to solve to have commercial power available from a Polywell reactor.

I am afraid that this is just the first of such news. As the development progresses (and costs scale up), they might discover that a batch of hamsters in a treadmill will probably be more competitive in producing power..... The only good stuff that will come out of ITER is going to be the advanced i...