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by tonybarry
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:00 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Vlasov Solver [work in progress]
Replies: 86
Views: 51810

Hello Carter, Thank you for deciding to make your code open source. Hopefully it will allow better bug detection. If you can include as many details of your development environment that would be very helpful. - Libraries (location and contents) - makefile - how the output is organised etc etc Regard...
by tonybarry
Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:52 am
Forum: Implications
Topic: Cap and Trade implications.
Replies: 39
Views: 26654

I've spent a little while chatting to various greens in the UK and they are in simple terms against any kind of development. Even if you want to put up a windmill, no they don't want that ... Hello Nanos, A wise Buddhist doctor once discussed this with me, and pointed out that in such a world-view ...
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:09 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Virtual Polywell
Replies: 468
Views: 195454

Hello Dr. Mike, Thank you for the sim results. I have Blender running OK on my Mac and I can visualise the field vectors. I am still learning Blender, so I have yet to work out sections ... Would it be possible to you to publish two sections through your dataset? Both along the polar axis. One runni...
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:57 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Possible wiffle-ball analytical solution
Replies: 88
Views: 62939

Hello icarus, Welcome to Talk-Polywell. Analytical work is always welcome. May I ask how your dataset is structured so that visualising it might be undertaken? How do you presently visualise your data? Currently Dr. Mike Rosen is using Blender as his visualising tool for a sim he has undertaken. Thi...
by tonybarry
Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:34 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Hello Art, Speculative? Yes. Can it be tested to see if it can work for less than 1e9 US dollars? Definitely. Worthwhile? That's a personal decision, but I think so. I am not a physicist, (I work in medical research) so I have some experience of promising ideas that don't pan out (and some that do)....
by tonybarry
Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:26 am
Forum: History
Topic: Question for EMC2 crew: Please describe the data embargo.
Replies: 26
Views: 33192

Hello Blaise, Your concern is understandable. I think most posters to Talk-Polywell want to know the answers too. I am really quite impressed at how forthcoming Rick Nebel actually is. His last post concluded with the phrase "you'll have to stay tuned." Sounds like a good plan. Regards, Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:07 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: The Successor to Polywell - Solving Poincaré the Right Way
Replies: 24
Views: 15881

Forum rules say we don't cull stuff unless it's spam. You can have different ideas, and even be Just Plain Wrong ...

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:40 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Vlasov Solver [work in progress]
Replies: 86
Views: 51810

Hello Carter,
Do you need somebody to look at your Matlab code?

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Fri Jul 11, 2008 9:36 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Yeah, he's definitely deserving of an invite.

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:01 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: All that can go wrong with recirculation
Replies: 112
Views: 60140

A lot of us thought so too, but it turns out the fields actually wrap pretty tightly because of the way four coils interact. There's a picture of this counter-intuitive result somewhere. Also, notice that WB-7 in the pic at EMC is very close to the wall. Hello Dave, Your image is here:- http://www....
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:17 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

This one floored me. I was worried about whether there was published data on the scaling of confinement time with density, and then I discover that Bussard didn't even measure the density. No interferometry. No Langmuir probes. No spectroscopic methods. No Thomson scattering. Just the assumption of...
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:26 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Hello Art,
Check your PMs.


Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:53 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Hmmm. PM me if you have a need for this file.

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:05 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Indeed, it is dead ... but Mark Duncan's is still good as of a few minutes ago.

Regards,
Tony Barry
by tonybarry
Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:37 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Where's the beef?
Replies: 132
Views: 71122

Hello Art, Bussard produced a report on the final runs of WB-6, which for a time was hosted on the UniWisc website, and is mentioned on Joe Strout's index page . While not exactly a peer-reviewed paper, it might give you some food for thought. You can now find it on Mark Duncan's excellent fusion pa...