Any News about Polywell ?
I don't think it will have much influence on those wanting to build back yard fusion reactors.DeltaV wrote:Or, a Commie plot to kill EMC2 funding and keep backyard fusion reactors out of the hands of freedom loving Americans.MSimon wrote:Ah. Paperwork errors. BFD.
I do think Purity Of Essence has morphed into Purity Of Earth which is definitely a Commie Plot.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
That's the "Total Award Amount", already available form the contract award webpage.krenshala wrote:It does list a specific dollar amount, however.
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/Re ... =Contracts
Assuming they can get WB-8 operating at beta=1, if losses scale at something reasonably close to B^.25*r^2 and the power scales at B^4*r^3, then there's a reasonable chance they'll be able to fund a full scale reactor in May.
Rick has said it's best to have two machines going at a time, so May 2011 could see the start of a WB-D/100/9 reactor to go along with the optional WB-8.1 if the WB-8 results look really promising (that would sort of make sense, because then the p-B11 results from WB-8.1 lead naturally into a second reactor for p-B11). If WB-8 results are very disappointing, then we probably won't even see the WB-8.1 built.
So in eight months, we should at least know SOMETHING.
Rick has said it's best to have two machines going at a time, so May 2011 could see the start of a WB-D/100/9 reactor to go along with the optional WB-8.1 if the WB-8 results look really promising (that would sort of make sense, because then the p-B11 results from WB-8.1 lead naturally into a second reactor for p-B11). If WB-8 results are very disappointing, then we probably won't even see the WB-8.1 built.
So in eight months, we should at least know SOMETHING.
n*kBolt*Te = B**2/(2*mu0) and B^.25 loss scaling? Or not so much? Hopefully we'll know soon...
It seems to me that if polywell works well, the navy will classify it and nothing will ever be known about it, ever. Maybe, what you think is best and what the navy thinks is in their interest are two different things.
Why would p-B11 fusion be in the interest of the navy? They are very good at handing neutrons. They understand neutrons. They don’t need to be politically correct, and 9 MeV alpha partials are still very damaging.
Why would p-B11 fusion be in the interest of the navy? They are very good at handing neutrons. They understand neutrons. They don’t need to be politically correct, and 9 MeV alpha partials are still very damaging.
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