Been lurking on this site for several months now...
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- Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell: We'll know in 7 months time?!
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- Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Black Hole Starship
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- Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: More: The $8 million award
- Replies: 60
- Views: 25150
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: EMC2 Gets $8 million
- Replies: 98
- Views: 56906
- Tue May 26, 2009 7:23 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: WB-8 Coming
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- Thu May 21, 2009 7:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
The polywell has 2 major advantages over the Tokamak. 1) It is only trying to directly confine electrons not ions. Electrons are a lot easier to confine. 2) It is not using a Maxwellian distribution for energy. By flipping a Tokamak from ion confinement to electron confinement, you gain one of those...
- Thu May 21, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
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hmmmm... Welll.... If I understand what your saying, with the Torus shaped fusor, Fusion occurs on the circumference of a circle located at the center of the minor radius instead of at a point. Well that does improve the volumetric efficiency quite a bit. However, the picture you provided was for a ...
- Thu May 21, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
- Wed May 20, 2009 3:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
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Art, I couldn't write down an equation for this.... Not my skill set. However, does the cross component of the velocity have to be that high? Also, and again, i'm just asking questions which I probably have the physical model wrong. Is it possible to set this up, with the ions relatively stationary ...
- Wed May 20, 2009 2:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
Art, That is no problem if the ions and electrons pass through each other periodically. Right now, they are mixed together all of the time. If they pass through each other, and spend only a small portion of their time in "contact", then that is a small amount of time for energy transport to occur. T...
- Wed May 20, 2009 12:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
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Not exactly. The fuel ions always lose energy to the electrons, The electrons always lose energy to bremsstrahlung. If the electron temperature is high, then the bremsstrahlung power is high, and that has to be replaced somehow. If the electron temperature is low, then the power transfered from the...
- Tue May 19, 2009 6:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
- Tue May 19, 2009 6:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
- Tue May 19, 2009 6:33 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462
- Tue May 19, 2009 6:14 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: We Will Know In Two Years
- Replies: 158
- Views: 89462