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For some reason over the last few days it has been running through my mind that the progress of the Navy's various rail gun projects might be a good indicator of Polywell progress. From what I can tell, they're going to need Polywell power/size ratio reactors to effectively run the rail guns. If we...

Concerning nitrogen and AGW. This is mostly about nitrous oxide (N2O) which is released mostly by soil bacteria in anaerobic conditions turning NO3 to N2 via intermediates like N2O. N2O is also produced when NH4 is nitrified to NO3 under aerobic conditions. Some N2O escapes and has a high global wa...

Concerning nitrogen and AGW. This is mostly about nitrous oxide (N2O) which is released mostly by soil bacteria in anaerobic conditions turning NO3 to N2 via intermediates like N2O. N2O is also produced when NH4 is nitrified to NO3 under aerobic conditions. Some N2O escapes and has a high global war...

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Solar currently accounts for only 0.1% of US energy consumption
Wind at 0.7%

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/12/us-energy-mix.html

Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday. [...] Perminov said the new nuclear-powered ship should have a megawatt-class nuclear reactor, as opposed to small nuclear reactors that powered som...

I have a bismuth crystal. It's beautiful.
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Anyone know anything about the credibility of Rowan University?

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/08/rowan- ... rther.html

Discuss...

A lively and thought-provoking talk, even though not entirely convincing. I was irritated that he dismissed solar power so lightly, on the grounds that we can't store it. I agree that it is not without its flaws and therefore not entirely convincing. His geo-engineering argument in particular seeme...

Art Carlson wrote:There aren't any knock.down arguments that will make me feel good over the issues of waste disposal and proliferation.

University of Texas at Austin Proposes Compact Tokomak Fusion/Fission Hybrid to Burn Nuclear Waste
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/01/univer ... poses.html

Mr. Lerner heads the Focus Fusion Society, which is a charitable organization attempting to create focus fusion technology. He believes that his technique is fundamentally superior to Tri-alpha Energy (Colliding beam fusion in the reverse field configuration) and EMC2 fusion (inertial electrostatic...

This forum really needs some moderators. If things go this off-topic why not just make a new thread? It's annoying when you click on an interesting topic and most of the discussion is about a random concept or politics etc.

I know there are a lot of smart people here who know about nuclear physics.
I recently read an article on femtotech speculation on Nextbigfuture.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/05/specul ... ssive.html

I wonder if anyone thinks this is at all plausible.

Just signed up to share this. I've been reading this forum for a while. Steven Chu gave a google tech talk. He mostly talked about non-nuclear alternative energy. But at the end was asked what he thought about Polywell at the end. He gave an ambiguous answer, he was looking into it. Here is the talk...