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by Ivy Matt
Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:29 am
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 news
Replies: 440
Views: 453805

Re: EMC2 news

Alan Boyle has an article on Geekwire stating much the same thing as the NBF article:

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/emc2-reviv ... ar-fusion/
by Ivy Matt
Sun Sep 13, 2015 4:14 am
Forum: News
Topic: More Helion Energy news....
Replies: 359
Views: 283344

Re: More Helion Energy news....

Oddly enough, Helion Energy apparently posted a news article on their website the same day as the NBF article appeared, yet there was no mention of it in the NBF article, except perhaps this oblique reference: * The Fusion Engine was designed from the ground up to be a competitive commercial device,...
by Ivy Matt
Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: More Helion Energy news....
Replies: 359
Views: 283344

Re: More Helion Energy news....

It was not so long ago that Helion seemed to be the company that wasn't getting any funding. Now it seems like they have all the right connections, even more so than EMC2. Not that I begrudge them their funding. It's nice to see some DOE money going to potential competitors to the mainline tokamak p...
by Ivy Matt
Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: China plans to build hybrid nuclear reactor by 2030
Replies: 11
Views: 9637

China plans to build hybrid nuclear reactor by 2030

The South China Morning Post has reported that China is planning to build an experimental hybrid fusion-fission reactor by 2030. The proposed reactor would be built at a military research facility in Sichuan province, and would use fast neutrons from fusion to burn u-238. Reasons given for pursuing ...
by Ivy Matt
Sat Jul 04, 2015 6:15 am
Forum: News
Topic: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London
Replies: 10
Views: 12955

Re: Summer Science Exhibition 30 June - 5 July 2015, London

Motherboard.vice.com has an article on Tokamak Energy. Not much new, but apart from all the mashing and squashing, not to mention the fuelless reactor, it's pretty easy to follow.
by Ivy Matt
Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:31 am
Forum: News
Topic: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv
Replies: 145
Views: 159086

Re: EMC2 has published a polywell preprint on arXiv

Not that exciting, we already knew wiffleball confinement is a real thing, but nice to finally see this published. It may not be the latest experimental results, but the importance of the paper is that it is in a peer-reviewed journal, and it is something EMC2 can point investors and other interest...
by Ivy Matt
Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:21 am
Forum: News
Topic: Mini tokamak in fusion race.
Replies: 1
Views: 7917

Re: Mini tokamak in fusion race.

Tokamak Energy will be participating in the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2015, between June 30 and July 5 in London. They will be allowing visitors to remotely operate their tokamak in Oxfordshire. They also have a recent open-access article in the IAEA's Nuclear Fusion , titled "On the...
by Ivy Matt
Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:58 am
Forum: News
Topic: Fusion Budget FPN15-18 - Leave ITER
Replies: 2
Views: 5688

Re: Fusion Budget FPN15-18 - Leave ITER

That's the Senate's budget recommendation. The House's budget recommendation is here: ... The Committee recommends $467,600,000 for Fusion Energy Sciences, $100,000 above fiscal year 2015 and $47,600,000 above the budget request. ... Construction. --The Committee recommends $150,000,000 for the U.S....
by Ivy Matt
Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:01 am
Forum: News
Topic: American Security Project at New York Energy Week
Replies: 4
Views: 7028

American Security Project at New York Energy Week

Next week is "New York Energy Week", and in conjunction with that, the American Security Project, a fusion-friendly think tank, will be sponsoring a lunch on "new developments in energy research". It will be at 12:30 PM on Tuesday, June 16, at FTI Strategic Communications' office at 88 Pine Street, ...
by Ivy Matt
Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:23 am
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811364

Re: LENR Is Real

I am disappointed in Rossi because Rossi has allowed the open source LENR community to be misled by the Lagano report. ... Rossi knew full well when he gave this type of reactor to the Lagano testers that it could only produce power at a level just over unity. ... Yeah, and that "isotopic shift" tr...
by Ivy Matt
Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:05 am
Forum: News
Topic: Latest update from Alan Boyle
Replies: 13
Views: 12842

Re: Latest update from Alan Boyle

This article may have been the trigger: June 2, 2015 UW researchers scaling up fusion hopes with DOE grant by Jennifer Langston http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/06/02/uw-researchers-scaling-up-fusion-hopes-with-doe-grant/ From the article: The team plans to build a new Z-pinch device at the UW b...
by Ivy Matt
Thu May 28, 2015 6:20 am
Forum: News
Topic: ITER under attack
Replies: 10
Views: 10614

Re: ITER under attack

Maybe I'm reading the chart wrong, but it appears to be bullshit propaganda. It says actual funding for fusion is less than $1B/year when it is more than $10B. How would you account for that discrepancy? DOE's budget for science and engineering is larger than NASA's budget for human spaceflight, an...
by Ivy Matt
Thu May 28, 2015 5:21 am
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811364

Re: LENR Is Real

I have no case to make. The Rossi reactor is close to release. It will be the first of many new designs. The Chinese manufacturing deal to produce the Rossi reactor is in place. The E-Cat production in China is being setup. The world will have to cope with LENR on it own terms. China will disrupt t...
by Ivy Matt
Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:52 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Replies: 880
Views: 527281

Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter

Another news item from the April 7 report is that the beryllium electrodes have been ordered : The total cost of the parts will be about $135,000, although this may be somewhat reduced with the final design of the cathode. The strength of the 97.8 % pure beryllium, 44,000 psi, is guaranteed by the m...
by Ivy Matt
Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:37 am
Forum: News
Topic: LENR Is Real
Replies: 1780
Views: 811364

Re: LENR Is Real

Some data is now available on the transmutation that took place. Meaning that it is certainly nuclear. Transmutation, or isotopic shifts? Isotopic shifts aren't necessarily caused by nuclear reactions. Sometimes they're caused by gas centrifuges. But even gas centrifuges consume energy. With the ho...