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Thanks for the post - very informative! Regarding the loss fraction, I assume he is only talking about electron loss, based on: ... The factor that your observed confinement exceeds this model is then lumped together as the cusp recycle factor. (Emphasis mine) But I may be missing something. It just...

Fascinating! If I understand this correctly, you are benchmarking that line or "corner" cusps have approximately half the loss of point cusps. Do I have this right? (6 point + 8 * .5 corners) = 10. And, dare I ask (please ignore this second question only, if NDA applies), is this in the ballpark of ...

Is this what Bussard was thinking when he described them as "funny cusps" as opposed to line cusps? It is my understanding that "funny cusps" result from magnetic fields that intersect the metal used to contain the magnets. Thus, "square" cross-section magnets create funny cusps, while "circular" c...

More basically, it looks like the polywell should be classed as high beta cusp confinement. I'm not familiar with the details, but I know that this idea is as old as the hills and was rejected very early. Why is the polywell supposed to be better? Possibly it is the idea of using point cusps instea...