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Good going. They may be interested. Or not. EDIT: On second thought, I'd put in a shameless plug into this site: http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/FAQ/fusion-faq.html FAQ about fusion. Might avoid uninteresting arguments. I still think we should make our own, regarding Polywell. EDIT2: Oh, and I'd like to s...

Looks right to me. I haven't read it in detail to know if the main point is correct, but it's down right interesting! The pictures didn't show up right on my xpdf readier, I'll have to try it with Acrobat and see how that does. The basic physics looks correct. I have not checked if it's applied cor...

PM's just have too much electron loss, so a coil will always be more efficient. I'm not positive about this. The Van Allen Radiation Belts are confined with a permanent magnet called the Earth. The mirror losses cause the northern lights. Don't know the confinement time or density or temperature. M...

Why would a sharp guy like Dr. B have missed permanent magnets? They would greatly simplify things. Why would you think he didn't consider the idea? If I ever get a chance to talk with him, I'll ask him. He actually did use permanent magnets on some early machines, but the geometry was wrong. Once ...

Let me go even further Joe,

Why would a sharp guy like Dr. B have missed permanent magnets? They would greatly simplify things. Why would you think he didn't consider the idea?

In ferromagnets the field must go through the material or there is no field. There is no way around it. The aligned matter creates the field. That's true of electromagnets too; the currents simply align the domains in the material, which creates the field. But the key is that fields are additive; a...

In ferromagnets the field must go through the material or there is no field. There is no way around it. The aligned matter creates the field. That's true of electromagnets too; the currents simply align the domains in the material, which creates the field. But the key is that fields are additive; a...

dbennett,

The alphas are at two energies two at about 2.4 Mev another about 2.9 (IIRC).

However divide the voltage by 2 because the alpha has a charge of 2.

So you are talking grids of 1.2 MV and 1.5 MV (roughly).

http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/aesj/division/f ... hikawa.pdf

The above has actual experimental results.

He pointed out that when a news site doesn't even have a phone number, you have to wonder about their credibility. It is worse than that. The domain is registered to GoDaddy.com, see http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=nextenergynews.com&prog_id=godaddy . DomainsByProxy.com sole business...

Bill (from Governor Schwarzenegger's office) called again. He was unable to find any useful contact information for nextenergynews either. He pointed out that when a news site doesn't even have a phone number, you have to wonder about their credibility. He reiterated again that the story is false a...

Zixinus says: "unlike the Soviet Union" Sadly too many places in the world are like the Soviet Union or worse. Once the USA starts building a lot of nukes every one is going to want them. A better idea is Polywells. You can choke them in a number of ways in microseconds. One easy way is to turn off ...

Testing. Actually you really don't need to test a Pu bomb explosively these days. The critical part - the explosive trigger - can be tested with high speed cameras. Consider all the testing that was done before exploding the first Pu bomb. All that could be done without making a very big nuclear noi...

chazmataz,

My proposal for a test reactor will prove D-D and p-B11.

If it works for D-D it will work for pB11.

After that you build your 100 MWth pB11 test reactor followed by actual power producing plants.

IEC Fusion Technology blog http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/

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I recall that most of the energy released goes into neutrons. 66% of the reactions lead to neutrons according to wiki given the burn up of all reaction products. Given the lower energy per reaction c. 20 Mev vs 200 Mev. You get a lot more neutrons out of a fusion reactor than you do from a similar ...