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- Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:15 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Taiwanese student under investigation for operating a fusor
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4120
Re: Taiwanese student under investigation for operating a fu
After watching the video, I'd say it is possible that his rig cost him US$400, but it's highly unlikely he is getting fusion reactions in measurable quantities. The video looks like his grids are hopelessly dirty too.
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
One of the problems I think is very clear once you notice it. That is the team. In order to do this work you can't go to the local 401 and hire an electrician, and then get another one the week after. It is specialized work with specialized experience. And the only guys who really have it are those...
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:44 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 3D model of the Navy Machine on YouTube
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4930
Re: 3D model of the Navy Machine on YouTube
The "big stainless steel drum with a yellow end" is on WB8, not the machine in the video.
- Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
And the Navy wouldn't put a tokamak on a destroyer, there's just no way - the tokamak is too big and has too much radiation. A destroyer needs pB11 otherwise they can't float the shielding.
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
Something in passing.ladajo wrote:And what rumors might those be?
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
Consider this article about how they restored funding to the Alcator C-Mod tokamak program at MIT: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/06/07/mit-used-lobbying-influence-restore-nuclear-fusion-dream-after-white-house-sought-stop-funding/T5Q9esYqbZsxIbXUpnEHFN/story.html I'm sure the MIT crew ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:41 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
1) Dr. Park is interested in trying to form the potential well as the next step in the research program. This clarifies things. They have either the potential well (from earlier machines' results) or wiffleball (from this machine), but getting both together hasn't happened yet. He said they've only...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:22 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
- Replies: 137
- Views: 87652
Re: Dr. Park to speak at UW-Madison
Spark plugs, huh? Where did you hear that?
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 4:29 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
- Replies: 145
- Views: 159199
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:09 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
- Replies: 145
- Views: 159199
Re: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
The KE of the electrons of somewhere between 2 and 7 KeV implies speed of eg: 5,000,000 M/s [....] This is based on a given speed for a 10 KeV electron of 10 million M/s. I get 50,000,000 m/s for a 7 keV electron and 59,000,000 m/s for 10 keV. That makes a 7ns transit for a 7keV electron across a d...
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:33 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
- Replies: 145
- Views: 159199
Re: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
Roger Fox [...] seems to think that they had to go to this smaller device in order to have the ratio of E-gun power to machine size that they needed.... The E-gun power in the smaller device is miniscule compared to the plasma sources. It works like a diagnostic, only providing enough high-energy e...