The U.S. NRC commission has made an exception to its long standing policy of charging a great deal of money while doing nothing whatsoever...
with the approval today of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor for use in the USA....
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- Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:06 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design
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- Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:45 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 2011 IEC Confrence slide presentations are now up
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The 6.6m break even radius size would seem indicate that the building needed to house the reaction chamber would be aprox. 90 foot on a side minimum. What throws me a little is the scaling of his diagram on page 2. Does anyone know how big that object is? So for useful power we need a reaction cham...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 2011 IEC Confrence slide presentations are now up
- Replies: 50
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Re: Power losses
SOrry for the nubie question, but when the presentation talks about "Bremsstrahlung losses ≈ 1/3 fusion output power", is this effectively x-ray energy? Yup. The ions undergoing fusion are mixed with electrons of roughly the same temperature. When these electrons collide with the ions, they emit x-...
- Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Bill Gates Funds New China Reactor
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11554
- Fri Dec 09, 2011 6:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
- Replies: 6351
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I guess that the amateur LENR enthusiast will need to somehow grind nickel in the regular atmosphere. This will cause an oxide layer on all particles. This powder is then loaded in a vacuum chamber, and a turbo pump is used (and perhaps a cryopump afterwards). The powder is then heated or somehow e...
- Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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Right, nickel is fissioning to create sulpher, chlorine, potassium, and calcium. They can't even count protons! Maybe they didn't notice the EVEN lighter fission products that would be necessary. But the products are STABLE? Oh shit, now they can't even count neutrons! Odd that. If sulfur is produc...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Small update from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics
- Replies: 131
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Fuel costs, of course, are on the order of $5-$10 per MW-year. Invisibly small. Ah. Well. We have paper estimates. The real world will be different. Usually worse. The Polywell guys estimate power delivered costing from 50% of current low end prices to 100% for initial units. Improving with develop...
- Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:25 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: R. Nebel at 53rd APS Plasma Physics meeting
- Replies: 140
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Lajado: Sorry for being snippy. I talked to him at the RFP conference. The gist is that EMC2 is still there w/o him, he's in contact with them, but he's moved on to a different project. He cited personal reasons for his retirement. Solo If you are liberty to say and happened to discuss it.... Did h...
- Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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Rossi has every reason to be paranoid. His invention is potentially the most valuable in history. Once an E-Cat is presented to one of the Universities it will only take a short time before the secret is stolen. Multi million dollar bribes will work wonders. Clearly, if Rossi wants to make money, r...
- Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:40 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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Crawdaddy, That patent is not from the US patent office. Apart from what seems to have been a mistake, no patent on cold fusion has been accepted here. There is a special process in place to divert patent application on cold fusion to limbo land. I don't buy Enginerd's comments. The patent office s...
- Thu Nov 24, 2011 7:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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It seems no matter how often it is repeated, posters here don't get it. It is impossible for Rossi to get a patent on cold fusion here. The patent office will not consider patents for this area, being convinced by DoE that it is impossible. Presumably his patent attorney is trying, but even if succ...
- Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:18 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
- Replies: 6351
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I would like to think yo are right, but I remain less than convinced. This is what makes the saga fun to follow. It is like watching Wimbeldon when you are wasted. Back and forth, back and forth, ohh! Point! Back and forth back and forth... Would that make Andre Rossi the John McEnroe (loud mouth s...
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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I am saying that you can't explain the lack of radiation. Can you say STRAWMAN? What "lack of radiation"? "Anything else you wish to draw to my attention, Mr. Holmes ?" "The curious incident of the stable dog in the nighttime." "But the dog did nothing in the nighttime." "That was the curious incid...
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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In the Rossi reaction, there is a very good chance that both the non-inverted Rydberg matter abbreviated as H(1) and the inverted Rydberg matter abbreviated as H(-1) are both coherent assemblages of around 100 atoms more or less and that the entanglement an coherence of these assemblages are determ...
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:23 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
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Any kind of coherence in the hydrogen cloud enveloping the mono-layer that allows for close approach of the hydrogen atoms swarming the nickel then may increase the probability for quantum tunnelling fusion .... .... just speculating here of course. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vgEA7CHGLe8/SzIAZHWs-vI...