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Sorry, but the party line is that the electrons are magnetically confined. At least that would work, albeit poorly. What you describe will not work at all. Perhabs this is an awfully stupid question, but why is this so? I thought the idea of this contraption was to have a positive grid to confine t...

What makes you think I'm not already on the Navy's payroll?

How much would you need to prove polywell is as worthless as you say?

If anyone sees these slides ever posted, Please let us know in this thread. I'm not going to finish this video, but I'd like to see the slides.

Some googling gave this:

http://depts.washington.edu/rppl/presen ... index.html

Look for Grossnickles papers

Lousy technical quality. Almost useless.

Message for all you amateur fusion enthusiasts out there: All TV-watching cancelled for today:

Here is your alternative pastime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuAV315__OE

Grab a cold beer, get down in your couch and relax. Come back for a healthy debate when ready.

I still think Art Carlson (or that other guy Slough) should do popular lecture on the FRC on Google video. If he thinks it's worth having. If done in a sensible and appropriate manor, there is no scientific honour or credibility to loose on popularizing one's results. Quite to the contrary, it may r...

I just enjoy the mental image of fanatical fusion cultists screaming about their respective technologies at each others' facilities. Peer review would be much more entertaining as a contact sport. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven However: Why amuse your...

I disagree with your physics version of efficient market hypothesis: that everything worth inventing has been invented and that anything that hasn't been funded isn't worth funding. Didn't say that. But there seems to be no shortage of ideas on how to make fusion energy happen. You can't fund them ...

Back to topic: The FRC must of course be a very long shot. Just like all the other inventions in this area.

If there were water tight proof that it worked it would have all the money it needed and even more.

There is probably a reason to why the US government has chosen not to bet on this horse.

TallDave wrote:I don't have any questions, but if at the end of the tour you could scream "POLYWELL!!" over and over until security drags you out that would be appreciated.

Certainly appreciated, but hardly beneficial.

jmc wrote:100k a year I believe.


http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/misc/NIAC_ROI.pdf

I think it deserves more.

Isn't the purpose of the Helion Company to attract private funding? Any hints on that?

Any information on funding available?

Perhabs theese explanations could be added to dr. Carlsons wikipedia-article? May it be possible to combine the latter one with an animation from Torulf? The important thing about the plasmoid is that the field lines are closed. If you start anywhere inside the plasmoid and wander along a field line...

Here in Sweden we had a referendum in 1980 that ended in the decision that in 2010 all nuclear power should be decomissioned. 2010 is next year and here we are. More dependent on nuclear power than ever before. Some major users of electricity are pushing really hard to be permitted to build even mor...