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Who said top? A containerized laser, sensing and firing through, say, a sliding door on the side of a ConEx box, could operate remotely or even autonomously, without the crew even knowing about it, if it was properly engineered. Or, just lock the human operator(s) into the box before loading. The p...

As I understand, his claim is about confinement time rather than Q.

Bogdan Maglich presented this paper at Thorium Energy Alliance Conference #6 (TEAC6), in Chicago on May 29, 2014. Bogdan Maglich - "Th/U233 breeding Ti above 200 KeV viable , NOT at thermonuclear ion energies" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_Whm9yQV8 He claims charge transfer between neutral and i...

Transatomic Power has published a white paper detailing their new design for a molten salt reactor: http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf . They make some interesting design choices, and give their rationale: They have no beryllium in their salt. This raises its melting point,...

You can think of this as a descendent of the "baseball seam" devices from the 70s. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/llnl/3085193876/

I think which model (e.g. air force or navy) will prevail will depend on the nature of the operations undertaken. Long-endurance, independent commands? The navies of the world do that kind of work. Short missions which are dependent on relatively local and centralized resources? Air forces operate ...

According to TFA, the tower has no net charge - there's a layer of positive charge to balance the charge of the electron gas. They're separated by a very good insulator. However, it seems to me that the electrons would not fill the volume, but (due to the attraction of the positive charges) would in...

If one inch stops 1 unit of radiation, then 2 inches stops 10 units, 3 inches stops 100 units, etc. I would say it differently: If one inch reduces the radiation by a factor of 10, then the second inch also reduces it by a factor of ten, so the two together reduce it by a factor of 100. Three inche...

The thing that stands out from this is the old tired call for greater efficiency. As an engineer and somebody who has been watching these issues for over thirty years, I find these calls for greater efficiency by people who have never had to go without air conditioning more than a little hypocritic...

Was reading through the FY11 Defense Budget Report from the Armed Services Committee. ... http://armedservices.house.gov/ Where is the budget report? The Armed Services Committee site mentions the "National Defense Authorization Act FY2011 (H.R. 5136)" but doesn't actually provide a link. I found a...

That sounds right. That's a higher coil density than his Figs. 1 & 2, which have coils at 0, 30, 60, 90 deg. Field lines topology for spherical system of 5 ring cusps and point cusps at the axes is shown in Fig. 2. It illustrates the minimum-B configuration that offers a good magnetohydrodynamical ...

Yes, there was a couple of projects funded by NASA for a moon base shielding based on electrostatic/magnetic fields. One of the final reports is this: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/921Buhler.pdf ... High energy particles are deflected by magnetic fields, but in the process the...

A similar configuration: http://www.iccworkshops.org/icc2010/uploads/16/innovative_confinement_configuration___paper.pdf Very interesting. I'm not sure I understand the two concentric layers of coils. Do they plan to use the outer coils to induce currents in the inner coils (mirror currents)? They ...

vernes wrote: But the drawing seems to indicate the magnets are solid as in any electrons following the magnetic lines end up smacking into the surface of the magnet.

Or am I misinterpreting the drawing?

No, the magnets are all circular current loops, with a common axis, with alternating current directions.

I concur with that argument. NASA is a horrific waste of money. Let me rephrase. The PURPOSE of NASA is legitimate. The Operation of NASA is crap. You should have stopped at your first statement. NASA has NEVER had a legitimate purpose. NACA (National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics) had one at o...