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- Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
- Replies: 119
- Views: 61582
It would be much simpler and cheaper to just breed the thorium into U233 in the reactor you are burning the U233 in. No need to bother with a fusion reactor. Uh huh, and where do you get the neutrons from? Yes you can breed fissile material in a fusion reactor, but it doesn't make any economic sens...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:38 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Tri-Alpha Rumor
- Replies: 119
- Views: 61582
There is no point to a fusion/fission hybrid process. The only advantages of Fusion over Fission power generation are that it avoids the problems (mostly) of radioactive waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation. Soon as you start radiating fertile isotopes with the neutron flux you've negat...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:27 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:45 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:50 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:46 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
The bid may include rights to a percentage share of wealth gained for the originating party. So the Navy may keep some funds, and if the contract is written for it, Nebel and co. may get a share as well. At least, that's how it works in acadamia, the sector of the public I'm in. I assume the Navy h...
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:36 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
It doesn't need venture funding. It has the US Navy. If it works the Navy will send out a quarter ton of specification and GE and Westinghouse and a consortium of subcontractors will bid on it. The Navy will pay for a five to twenty unit a year production line and the winner(s) of the bid will star...
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:42 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
Update: ... or maybe Nebel doesn't want a patent in somebody else's name. So many alternate explanations. But I'm very skeptical that Polywell is an answer to anything now. The assignee (the entity to whom the patent rights are [/would have been] granted) was EMC2. Yes, but from my dim memory of ho...
- Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell's current patent application.
- Replies: 48
- Views: 22538
I've just been on the USPTO portal: "NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT: Application 11/905,183, Applicant BUSSARD ET AL. "Office of Applicant's Representative confirmed upon telephonic request by examiner on 10/30/2009 that according to file information the application has been abandoned." Wow. If there's a mo...
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:21 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Zero point energy, hu?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 41593
Anybody selling ZPE machines is a science crank, a fraudster, or both. I find it frankly disappointing that this subject keeps coming up here, and attracting so much interest. You need to read more, no one said anything about selling ZPE machines, just some theoretical work being done that's all. Y...
- Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Zero point energy, hu?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 41593
- Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:11 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
- Replies: 128
- Views: 63199
Re: Rick Has A Word or two for sceptics.
Expensive paths to cheap energy? Example: sunlight is free and universally available. If the capital costs of installing solar to cover some sufficiently large area for a required energy level is too high, it's pointless to pursue solar energy;.... I may be misreading him, but I think Betruger's "E...