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D Tibbets wrote:...which now would be 13-19 months, not that I'm counting.

Of course not, that would be ridiculous.

That's what the HTML countdown page is for!

-Dave

It doesn't require extraordinary proof. It requires exactly the the same quality of properly reviewed, independently replicated evidence as any other claim. Are you really saying that obtaining a quality review and independent replicated evidence for extraordinary claims is not more burdensome than...

Umm, isn't "shall develop" a step or two away from "are burning"?

Just saying maybe you want to tone that subject-line down a tad

The basic physics has not been checked out at high voltage. There is no clue that they have solved the dielectric saturation problem. To your first point, I agree. It is amazing to me that there is yet another test not done at the targeted voltages. I wonder why one would bother. If they've created...

I had seen the first link, but the transcript is new to me.... I found this fascinating: Now another thing on voltage and I did put that in another news release is that we work deep into the paraelectric phase. In the paraelectric phase we have very sophisticated test data certifying that in the par...

ravingdave wrote:Great news if it's for real.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... nergy.html
David

http://polyplus.com/technology/laircell.htm

... and good luck with the next one!
I have both your Polywell articles (one from subscr, one not).

This will make an interesting longer story at some point, regardless of success or not (I'm reading Jaoa's VSL book right now, so, you probably have a future audience of at least one ).

-Dave

The problem with that is aberration which shows, for example, that the direction of the force of gravity from the sun always points directly* at the sun's calculated position in the sky and not its light-lagged visible position. The information I read indicated that if gravity is not instantaneous ...

We know that they will have ion injection guns soon because the navy contracted for one (to be delivered) with keep-alive funding. That implies longer burn times, if not continuous operation. And they said, "larger," so it should be a "Larger, continuous operating Machine." Guessing, I would expect...

I'm wondering what the next step really is. From the commentary below, I get: Alan writes: It sounds as if the scale of the experiment is such that you have to calibrate what you're seeing in terms of output, and they need additional data points at higher energies to really get a sense about the wor...

Happy to hear of a successful navigation through peer review. I'm looking forward to hearing the details, hopeful that scaling, continuous operations, and net energy extraction will prove successful, and dreaming of the day my grandkids plow the moons of Saturn.

Massive kudos folks!

-Dave

The 200K superconductor would be... huge. [...] Of course, I'm not sure I want to get my physics news from a random website. I'm interested in seeing these reproduced. Well, even if we buy the existence (MSimon -- I think the mixed-compound test was from 2006? Edit: Ah, yes, I see "a method of refi...

Aero wrote:You got that right! Help me out here with some cliches
Strike while the iron is hot.
Get while the getin's good.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch?

Random interesting (nearly on-topic) News: http://www.superconductors.org/200K.htm

-Dave

There is a "think-tank" of science fiction authors that has been working behind the scenes since the early 90's. They adopted a more public profile a year or two back. I recently learned my name was "in the hat" for consideration. Evidently it is now official ... http://www.sigmaforum.org/members.p...

Comparing the weight of the EESU to the weight of gasoline is not a fair comparison. You need to compare the weight of the gasoline and its tank Actually, the tank weighs mainly nothing. An electric motor weighs a lot less than an ICE, especially if you include the tranny (not needed -- well, most ...