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by philcowans
Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:54 pm
Forum: News
Topic: www.emc2fusion.org is down
Replies: 38
Views: 33441

Not yet worth starting a new thread, but http://www.emc2fusion.com has gone from the previous "Directory Listing Denied", and then "This site is temporarily unavailable", to This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon. Let's see, where did I put that website change interval to p-11B alpha count...
by philcowans
Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:41 am
Forum: News
Topic: NIF project status
Replies: 35
Views: 19631

Maybe Elon himself will fund it, after SpaceX and Tesla settle into routine production/operation.
Maybe he will...

http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/elon-m ... he-future/

Haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, but the summary looks promising.
by philcowans
Tue May 01, 2012 10:11 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335704

Check page 65 of this thread. It seems ladajo was right about the last quarterly update being the final report. I just hope his little birdie was also right. ...and also that maybe a website update or interview with Dr. Park is forthcoming. Probably worth noting that a search for '2012Q1' returns 5...
by philcowans
Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Aussies Claim Working Fusion Reactor
Replies: 58
Views: 14241

Here's something interesting: The article says that you get 1MW out for 40W in. If you work through the math: 1 MW = 6.25e24 eV/s. If you take energy output per D-T fusion at 17.6 MeV, that would require 3.55e17 fusion events per second. If a muon catalyzes 150 fusion reactions (which seems to be th...
by philcowans
Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335704

Perhaps this is finally the "going grey" ladajo and others have been expecting. For the sake of someone new to the forum, what would that mean? Are we talking about the navy wanting to keep promising results to themselves, or is it more a fear that the failure of the project will never be acknowled...
by philcowans
Tue Nov 01, 2011 3:47 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1335704

Some how "3 shots, confirmed scaling" would make me more optimistic than "500 shots, confirming scaling." Just saying. 500 shots seems like they have some pretty nasty question to deal with. I wouldn't be so sure about that - if they're angling for funding for a larger scale device then the more ex...