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- Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Proton failure diagnosed as a design flaw
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10956
Re: Proton failure diagnosed as a design flaw
On a physics site, the title of this post was quite alarming.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:22 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Latest update from Alan Boyle
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13042
Re: Latest update from Alan Boyle
This article may have been the trigger: June 2, 2015 UW researchers scaling up fusion hopes with DOE grant by Jennifer Langston http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/06/02/uw-researchers-scaling-up-fusion-hopes-with-doe-grant/ Here are the slides linked to in the press release. This thing looks... ki...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:44 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
- Replies: 186
- Views: 174042
Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
Dan--
Here's the main patent. There are others mentioned up-thread, but I haven't gone through those.
The patent never mentions a potential well, although it does refer to a magnetic well. (I just did a search through the text.)
Here's the main patent. There are others mentioned up-thread, but I haven't gone through those.
The patent never mentions a potential well, although it does refer to a magnetic well. (I just did a search through the text.)
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
- Replies: 186
- Views: 174042
Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
I keep staring at the patent application for this thing every so often and I think it's a lot simpler than a lot of you are making it out to be: 1) This is just a plain ol' magnetic confinement system, not IEC in any way shape or form. 2) The nod to the polywell they've made is because they're capit...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
- Replies: 186
- Views: 174042
Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
New article on the L-M CFR is up, link: http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2015/02/lockheed-martins-new-compact-fusion.html#.VPXjHk03Njr Here's the Aviation Week article that's the source. http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details Overall, McGuire says the ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NASA returning to NERVA?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 32971
Re: NASA returning to NERVA?
A little bit of radioactivity in the atmosphere is completely irrelevant. Besides, the hydrogen reaction mass barely gets radioactive anyway. Also want to point out that subsequent projects to NERVA demonstrated much higher T/W than 1, high enough to SSTO. If we're talking about a solid-core engine...
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: NASA returning to NERVA?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 32971
Re: NASA returning to NERVA?
And spewing radioactive junk into space on an interplanetary mission is not so much of an environmental problem. I think the Orion project studied this issue and determined that you had to be effectively outside the magnetosphere before you dumped any kind of radioactive stuff outside the spacecraf...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
- Replies: 186
- Views: 174042
Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
A steady state reactor wont be able to do Tritium suppressed and He3 boosted D+D though, unlike Helion's pulsed reactor, which can do just that. So they would have to go all the way to PB11, which is a lot more challenging. I'm having a hard time imagining how you'd get charged fusion products out ...
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dynomak In The News and Polywell Too
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5483
Re: Dynomak In The News and Polywell Too
As usual, I'm confused.
The abstract here says this is a spheromak. Have these guys made a genuinely stable spheromak? How? And wouldn't that make General Fusion pretty much a slam-dunk?
The abstract here says this is a spheromak. Have these guys made a genuinely stable spheromak? How? And wouldn't that make General Fusion pretty much a slam-dunk?
- Tue May 13, 2014 5:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MagLIF Talk From Last Year
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1943
MagLIF Talk From Last Year
I missed this last year. Nice overview, about a half-hour long.
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:31 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MagLIF News
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4872
Re: MagLIF News
I wonder if this magnetic field applied to the Z- pinch is similar to the mild magnetic field that apparently helps the DPF . The initial motivation for adding the axial B-field was to inhibit energy losses from electron and ion transport out of the fuel. They preheat the fuel with a laser fired at...
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:54 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: MagLIF News
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4872
MagLIF News
http://www.nature.com/news/triple-threa ... on-1.14445
Always nice to get the paper in just under the wire before the new year...
Always nice to get the paper in just under the wire before the new year...
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Pb-11 Fusion at CNRS Laboratory in France
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8764
Re: Pb-11 Fusion at CNRS Laboratory in France
This seems to be the money quote: Moreover, as we are employing the TNSA mechanism to produce the proton pulse, we know that the proton beam is Coulomb-pulled by a relativistic electron pre-pulse cloud. This cloud contains around 10–30% of the pico pulse energy and has an impact on the boron plasma ...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Radially-Magnetized, Permanent Magnet, Multi-Grid Fusor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13063
Re: Radially-Magnetized, Permanent Magnet, Multi-Grid Fusor
From the paper: A more substantial method of mitigation is to confine the electrons with an appropriately shaped magnetic field. Such a field has been implemented by Bussard in his PolywellTM “cusped” field configuration, where the fields are generated electromagnetically. The magnetic fields necess...
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11571
Re: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase
You're not trying to build the equivalent of the JATO-equipped Chevy, are you? That didn't end well, apocryphally speaking.Betruger wrote:Range? Ha! Supercar Tesla...