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One more comment on the earlier discussion in this thread. If everyone here is right and I am making an unfair statement about electric cars, then how come I have not seen a single electric SUV yet, not even a concept, or a design study? IMHO this is because the bigger the car gets the less the savi...

I posted this somewhere else already. From what I understand these are not ultracapasitors, but LiIon batteries that have this increased performance thanks to the the Nanosafe nanotechnology. Edit: Here is the link to the thread: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=814 (the other item of...

Dr. Nebel, I like what you are saying :) And competition is always good. It makes people work harder. I get a problem when politics give an unfair advantage to one competitor. This is something that happens quite often here in Austria. ITER clearly seems to have at least a little bit of that advanta...

Yeah, problem is that we already ignored the power supply for the lasers, now we are ignoring the lasers too? I do agree though that lasers have been getting better. I am wondering whether the fact that they are nowadays used so frequently (and with enough power to light a cigarette) in many consume...

LOL, I guess one can call that a tabletop system, lots of very big tables though, but I guess it counts
The powersupply is not shown here though.
Lets talk again in 20 years from now

I am not to sure about future versions of HiPER, but having seen the size of the lasers (plus power supplies), I doubt that it will be possible to use them for any space- based technology. One might be able to use ground based lasers for launching spacecraft, but that has a lot of additional challen...

Yeah, I got the idea behind the new one, but I did read also that it would not achieve net power, only break even and assuming that it will work as adverticed which the last couple did not.

Oh dear, I never heard of the "nuclear saltwater rocket", but I can totally understand why that could be "dirty". Fission based rockets are a good idea, when no small fusion reactors are available. However, we do have the chance to get one soon, so lets hope the best! After that point, I think space...

Well Polywell makes the most sense from a technical POV. However calling it a "Bussard reactor" kinda has a romantic thing to it. First it would be in memory of a great man and second Bussard is also the german word for a kind of raptoric bird and that is kinda cool ;) I also think that the general ...

Yeah, so I was right ;) Now what is the difference between this and back then? Back then it did not work and now they are building another one for 2 billion USD and it is not even meant to generate net power, but to barely make break even and that if (and thats a big if) it works. In addition it, as...

Hmm, just use some old salt mines. Problem solved. We have some here in Austria and I visited them once. They are very deep in the mountains. I think one could savely store anything in those. In addition, it is not like we have THAT much waste to deal with, especially if we use nuclear waste refinem...

Ok, I never quite followed up on it (I simply assumed that it ended up in a dead end, which seems kinda plausible), but I swear I have seen and read about something simillar in the 80ies. They were using gold covered pellets back then with several very strong lasers focused at them. I have no idea w...

To get back on topic though... I think that Carl Sagan was referring to the huge interstellar designs, not the one taking off from the ground. I remember him referring to this like this "it is certainly the best use for nuclear bombs I can imagine". I wholeheartedly agree with him on this. I cant th...

You know, if you consider Haider fascist, then what is any US politician? Not that I particularily like him or his party(he is a populistic hypocrit that would do and say everything to get himself some votes), but me and many other Austrians dont quite enjoy the way things are made to appear by cert...

I think he wanted "the big version". Way OT: This is very difficult to explain. Let me just say the following: Austria has issues. The leading parties kept ignoring them. Austria has an immigration problem. At least one leading party admitted that during the last election also. The leading parties k...