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by cpg123
Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:38 am
Forum: News
Topic: Government Not Funding Research
Replies: 56
Views: 27023

why do polywell?

Yes but 100 to 1000 years from now does not a pressing problem make. Why spend money on it now, in the middle of a financial meltdown, if it's not going to be really needed for 900 more years? Where should I start? Imagine that you can use 1000 times more energy than you do today without worrying a...
by cpg123
Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: WB-8 Testing Pre-solitication
Replies: 64
Views: 70773

100 mW or 100 MW?

The report shall address the conceptual requirements for a polywell fusion reactor capable of generating approximately 100mW. I find it hard to imagine that they would refer to a 100 milliwatt machine as a "reactor". From wikipedia, "A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions ar...
by cpg123
Sun May 31, 2009 8:10 am
Forum: News
Topic: ITER Delayed, Scaled Back
Replies: 81
Views: 34312

[Norbert Holtkamp, ITER's principal deputy director-general] says...
I think when a project starts getting positions like, "principal deputy director-general", it is doomed for failure. Lets hope that Polywell does work and doesn't ever suffer from this level of bureaucracy.