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Commercial e-beam fabbers are getting about 0.4 millimeter accuracy. Machining is still needed for bearing surfaces, etc. On the plus side, the final product is non-porous, full strength, and there is no bulk warpage, unlike those sintered metal magrid parts that Famulus obtained for his Polywell.

http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/bridge/papers/conic.pdf http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/bridge/papers/ConicSections.html Figure 3: A spherical electric field. If the positive z-axis is given a uniform positive charge density, and the negative z-axis is given an equal and opposite charge density, the...

We will release the Polywell data when your world is ready for it.

Thank you for not portraying us as invaders.

We are of peace. Always.

Delta'V'

There are three possibilities; a) fusion power is impossible, b) the means to create fusion power already exists, technologically, but no-one has yet 'assembled' the 'correct' elements of the puzzle to make it work, c) the means to create fusion power does not currently exist and needs a key new fi...

Something like this dual-coil magrid picture Indrek provided http://www.mare.ee/indrek/ephi/double/double.png at http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=506&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=helium+wb7&start=15 but with current flowing in the SAME direction for each coil in a pair, and insu...

[OK, Marketing, try "Fluxomatic" then. Do NOT use the blender.] IF both end rings are same-diameter coils, wound in the same direction and spaced fairly close, like a Helmholz coil, or closer AND the conducting links between the end rings are insulated to avoid plasma shorts and comprise a separate ...

[Well, that's one possible name. I'll let Marketing* worry about that.] Possible plasma tweaker, alpha collector, resonance tuner, or...? http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/HyperboloidAsARuledSurface/ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=t8FkAAAAEBAJ&dq=3534908 http://www.google.com/patents/about?i...

"Perminov said the ship will have a megawatt-class nuclear reactor..."

NASA -- "At full power, the SSMEs generate, in watts, the equivalent of 23 Hoover Dams."

Dept. of Interior -- "[Hoover Dam] has a nameplate capacity of about 2,080 megawatts."

23*2080 MW = 47840 MW

Not for SSTO.

More details:

http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article ... -heat.aspx

http://fluxpump.co.uk/default.aspx

These are also sorta interesting:

http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/Universe/ ... -Pratt.pdf

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/081 ... 1185v1.pdf

Interesting. Some of the pictures reminded me of this patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id= ... dq=5929732

If quaternions can help with this, that would be a step forward. A link to the Nebel quote: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=20032#20032 Something like this: Quaternion-based rigid body rotation integration algorithms for use in particle methods Molecular dynamics researchers also us...

I have yet to see proof that capacitor stacks actually gain mass when energized. I have been following this technology for many years, but can't seem to find clarity on that question. Please let me know if I have missed something, and if possible please point me to a duplicated research study where...

The thing I pick up from reading stuff by quaternion boosters is that they tend to feel that (a) Heaviside & Gibbs dropped important stuff from quaternions in their work, stuff of real physical significance Do you mean "real physical significance" as in traditional 3x3 rotation transformation matri...