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I started getting the idea that the Popular Science writer screwed up his explanation of General Fusion's idea, so I did a search on their patent and on LINUS. He didn't, but maybe it would make more sense using the imploding lead lithium as a means to capture reaction energy as opposed to driving t...

I don't imagine molten lead-lithium can be make to behave like transmission fluid.

From the posts I've seen Korea has a very robust fusion research program relative to its size, both IEC and tokamak.

Isn't there a Korean-American physicist on the emc2 staff, Dr. Park?

In the General Fusion approach the spin is only required to create a space in the core to inject the fuel into. In the washing machine approach the spin would be used to provide pressure for the shockwave.

bwang wrote: It seems to me the problem with the spinning and stopping approach of Choff is how do we reset for another shot in one second or half of a second. My explanation was sloppy. How about, a turbine drives the liquid metal towards the core, where its blocked by a second wall with a metal sl...

I was thinking about all those pistons, why not scrap them altogether. Instead put shaped ribs inside the chamber, either attached to the walls or on a separate inner wheel assembly. Either spin the rib assembly or the whole chamber to get the molten metal up to speed, inject the fusion fuel, and th...

It may eventually generate net gain with 200 steam driven pistons, but somehow I don't see it as a spacecraft engine enroute to Saturn's moons.

Happiness, they probably want to build a test machine that can be run steady state to definitely prove it will work, since WB7 only runs in bursts. I will have to forego the sacrifice of my firstborn, just to satisfy the critics of Polywell. Anybody hear of a company called General Fusion, in this m...

Getting back to the idea that we are being manipulated, I didn't used to believe in conspiracy theories before 911. That said, the current economic crisis I believe to be proof that bankers no longer know what's actually going on in their own industry. It's this way, according to a report I read 4 y...

Since I've been seening a lot of blogs about WW2 here, I though I'd ask a question about the war I've never been able to get a clear answer from anybody about. There were several Polish divisions and brigades that served on the Western front in 44/45. I've never been able to find any reference on ho...

The old joke about Canada that one US ambassador make was that the founding fathers wanted to create a country with French culture, British politics and American know how. Instead we ended up with American culture, French politics and British know how. Seriously if a NAU took place you would be addi...

I found out about it by way of a Popular Mechanics Mag that had an article that claimed cold fusion could be used by terrorists to produce nuclear weapons. The article turned out to be a complete fraud but trying to find out the process I checked out the Philo Farnsworth web site. I had read in a bo...

I've had a hard time finding 20 Mule Team Borax the last few years, somebody said there was a strike at the Borax mine. When I was a kid you could get a 20 Mule team model kit. Anybody know if they're still available?

Where I live some animal rights activists broke in to a farmers shed one night and freed the snails he was raising for French restaurants. The snails were all picked up by the farmer the next morning. Some of them got a whole 10 feet on their flight to freedom.