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by JohnP
Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Small Tri Alpha news blurp
Replies: 250
Views: 255878

Re: Small Tri Alpha news blurp

Youtube thought I'd like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eTAYbuvyQ
Nicely done "Verge Science" video on TAE and deep learning.
by JohnP
Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:49 pm
Forum: News
Topic: BLP news
Replies: 665
Views: 352968

Re: BLP news

Still waiting for the faking-his-own-death phase of product development...
by JohnP
Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:01 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453574

Re: EMC2 news

paperburn1 wrote:podcast Jay young park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgdT3SQMhI
Very cool, thanks for posting!
by JohnP
Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Lockheed Martin’s Compact Fusion Reactor
Replies: 22
Views: 37983

Re: Lockheed Martin’s Compact Fusion Reactor

The T4B can produce one megawatt of energy. The second prototype, the TX, is 18 meters long, seven meters in diameter, and about 2,000 tons in weight. The TX can produce 200 megawatts of energy. Where do these energy numbers come from, exactly? Anybody know? Are they really that far along that they...
by JohnP
Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump
Replies: 993
Views: 529598

Re: Sell The Whitehouse to Trump

Ok. To the Trump folks here, I hope you've had a great time this week. You got to party, and gloat, and laugh at those sad wimpy liberals. You bought a great fantasy: American Greatness, and Jail the Bitch. About that last thing: like most things Trump says, he didn't really mean it. He said it to g...
by JohnP
Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: BLP news
Replies: 665
Views: 352968

Re: BLP news

krenshala wrote:While I'm not holding my breath (or investing) there is always the possibility that they've (finally?) come up with something real.
No, they've never had anything, and they've still got nothing. Life's too short to waste on that nonsense.
by JohnP
Tue Aug 25, 2015 3:03 pm
Forum: News
Topic: COLLOQUIUM on LM Skunkworks CFR aka High beta reactor
Replies: 2
Views: 5436

Re: COLLOQUIUM on LM Skunkworks CFR aka High beta reactor

Awesome... thanks for the link!
by JohnP
Fri Jul 24, 2015 5:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Article on laser driven pB11 fusion
Replies: 20
Views: 26579

Re: Article on laser driven pB11 fusion

This is interesting. Aside from the challenges of direct conversion though, I wonder about the effects of repeated 10,000 tesla magnetic pulses on any nearby metal...
by JohnP
Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:03 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Boeing Laser Fusion Engine Patent Accepted
Replies: 11
Views: 11022

Re: Boeing Laser Fusion Engine Patent Accepted

At first blush I thought this was something to compete with Northrup's reactor, but this Boeing thing seems bizarre and baffling -- an April Fool's joke. So, you're going to do like 100 MW of D-D or D-T fusion with no heavy shielding a few meters from hundreds of passengers?
by JohnP
Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Latest update from Alan Boyle
Replies: 13
Views: 12841

Re: Latest update from Alan Boyle

Oops. I saw UW and assumed it was the Madison plasma folks... :?
by JohnP
Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Latest update from Alan Boyle
Replies: 13
Views: 12841

Re: Latest update from Alan Boyle

Not to disparage UW in any way, though local politics (Scott Walker & Friends) have been putting them thru the wringer:

http://host.madison.com/news/local/educ ... cc909.html
by JohnP
Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:02 am
Forum: News
Topic: Norman Rostoker of Tri Alpha - died
Replies: 5
Views: 9461

Re: Norman Rostoker of Tri Alpha - died

I don't get the bit about Seaborg. Wikip says he passed away in '99. Tri-Alpha goes back that far?
by JohnP
Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR
Replies: 186
Views: 171552

Re: Aviation Week on the Lockheed Skunkworks CFR

Hello all. Do I understand correctly that this machine relies on heating to rev the ions up to the kinetic energies needed? There's no IEC type grid or or virtual grid, right?
by JohnP
Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169299

Re: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)

paperburn1 wrote:
ladajo wrote:
paperburn1 wrote:Same guy also posted on Blacklight power (the guy in the link not Axil.)

link? Curious to see how much cool-aid he drank.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1075351
By the way this is just a shill link
Breathtaking amount of BS crammed in a few short paragraphs.
by JohnP
Thu Sep 19, 2013 7:51 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase
Replies: 11
Views: 11400

Re: Li-ion battery with ~3X specific energy (Wh/kg) increase

hanelyp wrote:More energy density would be in some ways nice, but did anyone else think "bang"? System stability under large scale manufacture and real world use is important.
Yes. Greater energy density = more mischief when things go wrong.