Commercial fusion race heats up

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Giorgio
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Post by Giorgio »

DeltaV wrote:My plan worked! (At least the subplan of getting chris to post his fusion centrifuge thingy.)
What an evil mind! :D

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Post by seedload »

DeltaV wrote:My plan worked! (At least the subplan of getting chris to post his fusion centrifuge thingy.)
You never saw this?

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0033249.html

Or the rotating glow posted on fusor.net?

My man has some mad chops!

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Post by KitemanSA »

Currently there is no "FAQ" on this subject, but if someone is willing to "Ask the Question" and write a good answer, I'd be most willing to insert it. I would like more than just a list of links. Company name, type of machine, known or suspected funding level, chief scientist, WAG and whether and how soon, that sort of thing.
Thanks.

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Post by Skipjack »

Slough is behind both Helion energy and MSNW. From what I understand MSNW is doing the academic research while Helion is doing the commercialization of it.
Here is the direct link to the Helion homepage:
http://www.helionenergy.com/

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Post by rcain »

DeltaV wrote:
chrismb wrote:DV, maybe you can edit my URL into your list. I guess it's overdue that I should start feeding in a few 'spoilers' on my work?

http://www.crossedfields.com/
My plan worked! (At least the subplan of getting chris to post his fusion centrifuge thingy.)

...
... well done. about time! ;)

whats with the patent app and some further technical disclosures/content Chris?

(ps. i can offer you a css stylesheet for your web age if you want, though i note this sort of 'anti-style' seems popular amongst physicists).

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Post by scalziand »

Quite a nice list, unfortunately there is little to no news from each one of these companies, so probably the use of the words "race heat up" is not really the best one.
Aren't you forgetting about the roughly monthly updates from LPP?

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Post by DeltaV »

seedload wrote:
DeltaV wrote:My plan worked! (At least the subplan of getting chris to post his fusion centrifuge thingy.)
You never saw this?

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0033249.html
Nope (shock, awe). So many posts, so little time... The patent application has the word "fusion", so I moved him up a couple of lines. Now if I had time to actually read it...

http://www.emc2fusion.org/
[ http://www.helionenergy.com/ http://www.msnwllc.com/index.html ]
http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/
http://www.fpgeneration.com/
http://www.generalfusion.com/
http://www.n-plasma.com/index.html
http://www.crossedfields.com/
http://www.hyperv.com/index.html
http://mifti.com/home
http://investing.businessweek.com/resea ... Id=2113506
seedload wrote:Or the rotating glow posted on fusor.net?
Nope. Got a link?

Saw this linked from there, only 2 of 10 teams in common with the above list:
http://www.bnet.com/blog/energy/ten-ser ... world/2897

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Post by Ivy Matt »

DeltaV wrote:
seedload wrote:Or the rotating glow posted on fusor.net?
Nope. Got a link?
Probably one of these:

http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?bn= ... 1262438568

http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?bn= ... 1264282158

The post at the first link contains images of the device and the rubicund toroidal plasma. The post at the second link contains links to a couple of YouTube videos.
Temperature, density, confinement time: pick any two.

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Post by DeltaV »

Thanks.

Eeeek! Torus!

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Post by Giorgio »

DeltaV wrote:Thanks.

Eeeek! Torus!
ROTFL :D

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Post by ladajo »

:D



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Post by Ivy Matt »

Are there any hard and fast standards on what can be thrown into the pot? I'm sure I could come up with quite a few. For now I'll just draw your attention to this variation on the standard fusor:

http://www.beeresearch.com.au/

The diagram here reminds me of my childhood thought experiments regarding what would happen if I jumped into a hole through the earth, although I didn't consider the possibility of someone jumping in after me.
Temperature, density, confinement time: pick any two.

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Post by chrismb »

DV, I think you are over-listing here. You're gonna end up with my 'List of Fusion Technologies' list if you keep going (from which I already deleted someone's addition of 'crossfire fusion' off of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fu ... chnologies).

You should make some rules like "is there IP protection and/or do they have accounts and aim for profits/licence sales", something like that. Maybe also, 'reported activity in the last 6 months' might help whittle away the 'also-ran's from the runners.

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