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by chrismb
Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:27 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169103

Re: Reality check

:: Show me this statement. Where does he say this? Was he talking about 50kg per individual ECat or total for the 100ish ECats per 1MW installation? This would be fairly incontrovertible "proof of a lie" if he actually claims to have 50kg of lead around EACH ECat . Mats Lewan Publicerad 18 mars 201...
by chrismb
Sun Jun 30, 2013 5:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169103

Re: Reality check

I have no problem with anyone "thinking" he is lying as long as they don't present it as FACT. I think there is a good chance he is lying myself. But I keep running into folk who "know" he is lying and present their "lots and lots of nothing" as "proof". Please, put up, or shut up. The issue is tha...
by chrismb
Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:27 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.
Replies: 49
Views: 29720

Re: Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.

It means nothing, insofar as the physics of it.

It means everything, insofar as no for-profit body will invest in its R&D whilst there is no protection on commercial returns-on-investment at the end of it.
by chrismb
Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.
Replies: 49
Views: 29720

Re: Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.

The whole thing is now unpatentable because it is in the public domain. However, if there was some key feature or enablement that was required to make it work, then that new enablement would be patentable. But, in a sort of 'perverse reversal' of fortunes, Polywell can now only be patented if it doe...
by chrismb
Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.
Replies: 49
Views: 29720

Bussard's Polywell patent application is finally dead.

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by chrismb
Tue May 28, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

Locally hot and cold can describe so many different situations that it can be interpreted as you wish. A fusion reaction process is either intending towards working with thermalisation, or intending away from it. This is the explicit difference. Absolutely no interpretation whatsoever. As for inert...
by chrismb
Mon May 27, 2013 9:57 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

This absolute statement is miss leading. With fusors, fusion does scale faster than losses with a fixed grid transparency as the size increases. It is just that the difference is small. For a Fusor to reach breakeven, the size needs to be very large- foot ball stadium to Earth diameter, depending o...
by chrismb
Sun May 26, 2013 11:20 am
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

Has it really been so long that you've all forgotten how this is supposed to work? Or is there more data that I've missed somehow? Potential well formation in Polywells is shown experimentally to occur, and to reach at least 80% of the drive voltage even in relatively primitive machines. Wiffleball...
by chrismb
Sat May 25, 2013 9:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

Maxwellian or not? The electrons would definitely be Maxwellian, or strongly thermalising at least. But that is immaterial as they would be relatively cold. The fuel ions should be definitely non Maxwellian. The back-of-envelope estimate above presumes the best of all possible outcomes - that the f...
by chrismb
Sat May 25, 2013 7:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

Some would argue that the machine provides the ability to exceed the limit, as it operates in a method not applicable to the theory behind the limit. Running it higher on the cross section curve looks like it will help, but still not enough for D-D. Seeking Net Power, one would have to go for a low...
by chrismb
Sat May 25, 2013 7:43 am
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

http://aries.ucsd.edu/raffray/publications/FST/FST08_Najmabadi.pdf In a stellarator, most of the confining field is produced by external coils (the poloidal field is generated by the external coils as well as the bootstrap current). The absence of a large externally driven plasma current leads to ma...
by chrismb
Fri May 24, 2013 9:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234834269_Magnetohydrodynamic_Stability_of_Free_Boundary_Quasi-Axisymmetric_Stellarator_Equilibria_with_Finite_Bootstrap_Current/file/79e4151025a636255f.pdf The impact of the bootstrap current is investigated on the equilibrium properties of a two-period quasi...
by chrismb
Fri May 24, 2013 6:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Actual Polywell News!
Replies: 98
Views: 57859

Re: Actual Polywell News!

Show me your numbers that you can not attract enough fuel ions to have a fusion event with a 15KV electron well using what we publically know about (e-) density in the polywell. You say Brillion limit, I say show me. Consider Brillouin Limit: Electron density/m^3, Ne = (e0)B^2 / 2(me) = 8.85E-12 x ...
by chrismb
Wed May 22, 2013 5:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Rossi USPTO patent progress.
Replies: 56
Views: 55334

Re: Rossi USPTO patent progress.

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by chrismb
Sun May 19, 2013 9:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: Anybody got any info on this solar patent filing?
Replies: 8
Views: 8854

Re: Anybody got any info on this solar patent filing?

Only two applications currently showing in patft.uspto.gov/ under Ronald Ace: 1: 20100252647 Benign global warming solution offers unprecedented economic prosperity Abstract The present invention proposes a permanent and prosperous solution to both human global warming (.about.0.26 to 0.74.degree. F...