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- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
- Replies: 677
- Views: 118252
Re: Helion Energy to demonstrate net electricity production by 2024
I appreciated the extensive interview Kirtley did a few months ago and all the recent news about Helion is very encouraging. I was curious that with all the topics he covered I don't recall him talking about cost. Sometimes when an obvious issue goes unmentioned it indicates potential issues. Any th...
- Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thank you, Talk-Polywell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3995
Thank you, Talk-Polywell
I've been mostly lurking here at Talk-Polywell for nearly 15 years. I'm a chemical engineer, a geek, and - until I retired a couple of months ago - an engineering software developer for over 40 years. I love this forum. It is the best place for keeping an eye on the progress toward fusion. The physi...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:20 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Fusion devices are not "nuclear fusion reactors"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4710
Re: Fusion devices are not "nuclear fusion reactors"
As a chemical engineer, I would say we run into this all the time. Reactors are a common piece of equipment in chemical plants. It just means a vessel in which a chemical reaction takes place. But for the general public, "reactor" means "nuclear" and "nuclear" means "Chernobyl". People quickly accep...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Fusion in Shipping
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4315
Re: Fusion in Shipping
Long time lurker here. I was just wondering: for shipping applications, how do you charge the capacitor bank for startup when you're not on the grid? Or maybe a better way of framing it, how long could the reactor be shut down at sea before the capacitor bank would discharge too far for a restart?
- Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:03 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1351424
Re: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
This was about the last thread that ever had any news about Polywell and now it's gone to compost...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Is the ABSENCE of news, news?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 30725
Re: Is the ABSENCE of news, news?
Or, it could just be that there is no clear path to success, but there are still tantalizing hints it just might work, and the Navy figures a small bet on a long shot with a big payout is a reasonable investment. I think this is the most likely explanation. And as long as the Navy is funding it, we ...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Blowing hot and cold on fusion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10542
What I would strongly expect, if the results are significant, is that one of the replicatable experiments can be written up really well and investigated. Why would LENR people not do this? Greed, perhaps? If they truly believe their experiments have produced energy through nuclear fusion maybe they...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:46 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1351424
China Lake and Point Mugu are the locations of the sponsoring organization: Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). I don't think that implies anything about EMC2 moving to one of those locations.
http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcwd/
http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcwd/
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Constraints on growth even in a world with cheap electricity
- Replies: 95
- Views: 118268
No one can say with any certainty that we will be able to continue growing our material culture without bound. However, it is by no means certain that we are near some maximum and face an inevitable decline. My own guess is that, if humanity survives long enough, we will find the current era to be o...
- Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:30 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small update from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics
- Replies: 131
- Views: 57896
- Sat May 08, 2010 3:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: emc2's website
- Replies: 232
- Views: 152919
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:34 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: emc2's website
- Replies: 232
- Views: 152919
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:45 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Alan Bolye's Latest Artice
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25752
have you ever thought that perhaps they purposely tweaked the device to produce the bright plasma sor the puspose of a picture? how boring would it have been to the general public without the light Recall the picture of a glowing plasma on the old EMC2 website, which specifically said it was a Heli...
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:07 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A nuanced approach to EMC2
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13875
Tom Clarke, Thank you for a calm and fair summary of the situation. I agree with you completely. I think the anger at Rick Nebel is completely unjustified. He hasn't over-promised and he hasn't lied. He just...hasn't said much. It always seemed likely that the only way we would ever learn anything a...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: emc2's website
- Replies: 232
- Views: 152919
If the glow is just black body radiation then the color would only tell you the temperature. If it is from the emission spectrum of the gas then perhaps you could infer the composition. The paper you linked was heavy sledding for a non-scientist like me, but it seems to be talking about measuring ve...