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by paperburn1
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
Replies: 18
Views: 3783

Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal

The real strength behind Quaise is the fact that if it works as predicted they can drill holes 100 times faster than anyone else.
by paperburn1
Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Happy Holidays everyone!
Replies: 9
Views: 714

Re: Happy Holidays everyone!

Festivus for the rest of us. Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles"
by paperburn1
Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!
Replies: 8
Views: 2136

Re: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!

Old guys throwing down on new guys. Things just got interesting again.
by paperburn1
Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Feeling lonely sometimes
Replies: 10
Views: 1642

Re: Feeling lonely sometimes

Laments, I too just lurk once in a while. ahh for the heady days of real fusion news involving polywell. But I get it. Nobody wants to angel fund something that has a 25 percent chance of working. My hopes for polywell were a fusion rocket with an ISP of a million the design seemed perfect for that ...
by paperburn1
Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:34 pm
Forum: News
Topic: National Ignition Facility
Replies: 27
Views: 15950

Re: National Ignition Facility

Fusion gain has been demonstrated for the first time!!! The NIF shot from the 5th of December 2022 had a 300 MJ wall plug input for a 2.05 MJ laser output and 3.15 MJ of fusion yield. So the Q value was about 1,5. It was reported that the fuel burn up rate in this shot was about 4 %. The NIF team w...
by paperburn1
Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup
Replies: 28
Views: 5583

Re: Jäderberg future power - Swedish fusion startup

Wellat least we have something to talk about,
by paperburn1
Thu Dec 01, 2022 3:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: material science advancements
Replies: 3
Views: 1108

material science advancements

20 tesla magnets are commercially available. Does anybody have any thought on the possibility of overcoming the problems that were discovered under lesser field strengths? Or should we put this concept to bed once and for all?
by paperburn1
Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal
Replies: 18
Views: 3783

Re: Company (Quaise Energy) plans to use fusion technology to drill for geothermal

If they can reliably bust the 10 mile (16 KM) this is a game changer, every coal fired plant could be brought back to life for what 5 years of fuel costs. Running costs would be minimal after that. all on a footprint where the coal used to sit before burning.
by paperburn1
Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:18 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage
Replies: 25
Views: 7652

Re: Hydrostor - compressed air energy storage

[Here is an idea, use the green energy to suck the co2 out of the air and reform it back into fuel.
Oh wait that steps on to many big oil toes.
by paperburn1
Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: We lost so many members :(
Replies: 48
Views: 19987

Re: We lost so many members :(

By the by, EMC2 is still not dead either. New focuses, same premises. If Jaeyoung gains more traction you may yet see something. Been a lot of work on the simulation side these last couple of years. I agree, Simulation testing in design has been a thing for a long time. But in the past two years I ...
by paperburn1
Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"
Replies: 15
Views: 7093

Re: "Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040"

With the advent of new commercially available 20T magnets brings me hope. But that huge barrier of no funding is still the 400 pound gorilla in the room. "Performance of this magnet is similar to a non-superconducting one that was used in an MIT experiment that concluded its experiments five years a...
by paperburn1
Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: We lost so many members :(
Replies: 48
Views: 19987

Re: We lost so many members :(

We are still out here, waiting, watching, and wondering what comes next and can we overcome the roadblock by "high pressure fusion"