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GIT Thruster opined: "Well you're obviously wrong, Skippy." Actually, no, GIT. It is you who are at best very partially right, ...at best. "Most people who form space advocacy and are interested to support space efforts, think NASA is near dead and buried. NASA is awash with billions of funds, but n...

There are 2 related advances in superconductors that have the potential to affect the progress of Polywell Fusion. One is the confirmation of a new ceramic superconductor with a critical temperature of 254 degrees Kelvin. http://www.superconductors.org/254K.htm and the confirmation at: http://www.su...

[quote="zimdlg"]First of all I must say I'm not a physicist so sorry if my questions are elementary. TomB: <snip of all the stuff that seems basically correct> It seems to me that work has to be done to slow the alphas down, a 8.7 MeV loss, and then all you're doing is neutralising the helium ions. ...

@zimdig "I am especially interested in the direct conversion of the power to electricity in the H+B11 reaction and the associated HVDC systems. After all you can do as much fusion as you like but it you can't make the power available at a transmission substation busbar the system isn't worth much. I...