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ARPA-E anticipates that most awards will be for total project costs in the range of $2 million to $5 million. Some may be as low as $500,000 or as high as $10 million. In extremely exceptional cases, ARPA-E may choose to accept efforts up to $20 million. The applicant should propose a funding level...

The way I see it any money for research would be a good thing for polywell. Something like ARPA-E would push Polywell into mainstream research, instead of on the fringe. I really don't know why any of you would be against that?! Any money woiuld, but not from ARPA-E. They are not looking for increm...

The way I see it any money for research would be a good thing for polywell. Something like ARPA-E would push Polywell into mainstream research, instead of on the fringe. I really don't know why any of you would be against that?!

I skimmed the Wikipedia writeup about ..SOX... I didn't see the mechanism that would effect the deployment of venture Capital. What is it? I've had the fortunate/unfortunate experience to implement SOX compliance for corporations in the past. It's typically the costs to get to SOX compliance as wel...

..... It is also preventing the most effective deployment of venture capital. .... I skimmed the Wikipedia writeup about ..SOX... I didn't see the mechanism that would effect the deployment of venture Capital. What is it? I've had the fortunate/unfortunate experience to implement SOX compliance for...

The centers are expected to employ 1,800 university, industry and government researchers. Each center will receive between $2 million and $5 million a year "for an initial period of five years," the Obama administration said.

I'm thinking it would be 20% of max $5 million, min $2 million.

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I'm wondering if polywell is ready for this yet?? Dr. Nebel any input?

You actually think the semi-insane tea baggers are something that frightens politicians? dressing up obama in a hitler costume and calling for book burning is not going to get more than 20% of americans interested, and that 20% already hated the people in power because they will always hate the peo...

You are correct (sort of). High peak power microwave generators are not uncommon. Continuous power in the 100 KW to 1 MW range is off the shelf. If we go down to 1 KW or so they are produced in the millions. What we don't have is power receivers any where near that range. So we can say that power g...

You are correct (sort of). High peak power microwave generators are not uncommon. Continuous power in the 100 KW to 1 MW range is off the shelf. If we go down to 1 KW or so they are produced in the millions. What we don't have is power receivers any where near that range. So we can say that power g...

There is the little problem of junction capacitance my friend. Power scales as junction area (and not well either - due to heat dissipation being easier in smaller objects) and capacitance also scales as area. Currently power diodes are limited to the MHz range. Getting them to the GHz range? Well ...

I beg to differ, solar cells do tend to degrade in sunlight, in a matter of days even, it's been known for 20 some years. Also the newer thin-film solar cells have higher tendency to degrade in efficiencies. See here http://www.mrc.iastate.edu/research/Biswas.pdf I could be wrong. I had learned tha...

One other issue with solar cells is the limited lifetime of the cell, they tend to degrade over time, in the radiation and heat of space, I would think it would degrade quickly. So all these SPS units would need to be replaced at some point. Actually, they degrade slower. Solar cell degradation com...

One other issue with solar cells is the limited lifetime of the cell, they tend to degrade over time, in the radiation and heat of space, I would think it would degrade quickly. So all these SPS units would need to be replaced at some point. Is it doable, you bet. Something like this would need a sp...

Compare that with the progress in high temperature superconductors 20 years after their discovery. In fact I am betting that within 5 years we will have attained room temperature superconductors. Actually, I will bet that we won't have room temperature superconductors for at least 30 years, if ever...