Talk-Polywell.org

. . .the most interesting tidbit that I got from it was the admission that US is no longer an innovator in nuclear fission energy the way it use to be. I have to wonder what is considered "innovative" at this point. Transatomic is still working their liquid salt reactor that is much safer and <1/2 ...

Interesetingly, there was a talk on nuclear thermal propulsion at the recent AAS GNC conference that I just got back from: Guidance, Navigation, and Control Considerations for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion by Michael Houts (NASA MSFC) For what it's worth, it was a interesting talk, but not one that spu...

I'm curious to see the details and I'm not well-versed in searching for patents:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/08/1 ... Y0L06Kcdu0

So much for innocent until proven guilty. Why is the burden of proof not on the "Office of Defence Trade Controls". They do not have court authority. This looks like a civil liberties case in the brewing, and as I understand having loosely follwed these guys for a while, that is the prime intent. I...

I have to wonder if he is ripping off Koloc and/or Seward. http://www.scribd.com/doc/79792546/P-M-Koloc-The-PLASMAK-TM-Configuration-and-Ball-Lightning http://vxnhosting.com/electronpower/technology I immediately thought of EPS when I saw the thread title. Man the site looks like it hasn't change i...

I wonder if this program has access to LM's DWave...

http://www.pppl.gov/events/adiabatic-qu ... d-wave-one

Is it possible that instead of the electric field being used to generate the ion radial collision velocity, that they are heating the plasma with microwave power? If they are using a heating method such as microwave heating, would pB11 fuel be possible? Didn't be state they're using RF to heat the ...

The photo shows what looks like a polywell coil viewed through a port, maybe this is the 4 year blackbox polywell program that was speculated on after WB7/7.1. The explanation provided is bafflegab to keep rival countries on the wrong path trying to copy. This plus the paper I posted earlier has me...

The only thing I've been able to find possibly related to this talk is a what looks like a PhD paper from the "inventor" of this new concept, Tom McGuire, mentioned in the presentation: http://ssl.mit.edu/publications/theses/PhD-2007-McGuireThomas.pdf He's also listed on this (pretty outdated lookin...

The Navy's new A1B reactor planned for use in the new Ford class supercarrier is smaller and more efficient than the A4W used in the Nimitz class and has 4X the power generation. no reason to posit a poly that would be a decade away from use. Btw, I don't really think that Polywell is really what h...

Thought I'd feed the conspiracy :D. - Navy railgun and laser were killed, but later ressurected again. That would make sense if they think there is a usable powersource available soon. I saw this article on Wired and this following comment from Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder made me think of your theory:...

Couldn't find any fusion propulsion research that's been conducted at Johnson. I did find this recent American Nuclear Society conference agenda chaired by John Scott from Johnson with links to familiar aneutronic fusion research (Miley, Chapman, Project Icarus): https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...

Here's the talk from Gordon McDowell's YouTube page: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCm0jW5Bjdg I'd be interested in hearing how this was received by the thorium community. The accelator driven system talk posted had a few questions to the speaker at the end. Most seemed skeptical of the additional co...

Nothing big. Just reading through this link on this post at NBF I found this: "We had participants from many laboratories, universities and companies: BNL, FNAL, GSI (Germany), LANL, LBNL, LLNL, ORNL, PSFC/MIT, MSU, PPPL, Univ. of Maryland, Technischen Universität Darmstadt (Germany), Utsunomiya Uni...

Plus a bunch of other nuclear related propulsion concepts: Tarditi, Alfonso, Aneutronic Fusion Spacecraft Architecture, University of Houston at Clear Lake, TX Werka, Robert, Proposal for a Concept Assessment of a Fission Fragment Rocket Engine (FFRE) Propelled Spacecraft, NASA Marshall Space Flight...