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If the collisions happen at r=0 and everything is directed inward, I know its unlikely but??? Also the heavy material would get reused without taking part in fusion, and if the machine pulsed???

I noticed Dr. Nebel mentioned the possibility of injecting fuel pellets into the Polywell, that makes me wonder if a heavy inert catalyst could be tried as well, crushing the fuel together between two molecules of a much heavier element. On that note, maybe that was happening in the fusors back in t...

I once heard a story about ball lightning following a woman into her kitchen, so she hit it with a fly swatter! Knocked it to the floor where it disappeared.

Maybe they could get Todd Rider or Richard Hull on the peer review, when the toughest skeptics are convinced then you can pretty much guarantee it works.

This might be more of use with small fusor design if any, but could there be any advantage to putting the vacuum chamber and pump inside of an outer vacuum chamber. Use the pump to evacuate the outer chamber half way down, seal it, then pump out the inner chamber into the outer chamber the other hal...

I remember reading a book about the early development of breeder reactors and it mentioned a Zirconium cone underneath the core. The idea was it would disperse any meltdown. On another forum I think I also recall that electrons hitting the screen on a TV cathode ray tube had the equivalent of a 200 ...

My speculative guess if it proves out is ten years to develop a solid working knowledge and at least another ten years for a more detailed understanding. But then new modifications/features will keep coming along that keep research going. If it only partly works research will go on in fits and start...

Dr. Bussard described the Polywell as a simple machine with wonderfully complex physics. How long would it take even with working BFR's to fully understand and model all the reactions taking place inside the machine. Months, years, or decades? Any estimates or guesses?

I'm fond of Murphy's Law myself.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Everything takes longer than expected.

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time.

Murphy was an optimist.

For me what would hurt is the scenario where a totally unforseeable high voltage leak destroys WB7 in a similar way to WB6, and in the aftermath its found to be easily preventable in future attempts. But then the budget and time have run out on the project. Then it might take two or three more years...

I recall reading as a young man that when Edison was inventing the light bulb he tried no less than 100 filaments before finding one that worked. It's good that Dr. Nebel is showing due diligence and playing the hand he's been dealt, but it seems a bit like asking Edison to invent the light bulb, an...

I don't understand how Lerner's dense plasma focus differs appreciably from Spheromaks and STP fusion, the latter methods have the benefit of actual research and experimentation.

10 to 15 feet would probably be easier to find if it exists. I remember reading a few years back about an xray laser experiment that had huge capacitor banks. There might be mothballed equipment out there from old research going back decades. If off the self tech can be adapted to new uses it makes ...

Assuming the Santa Fe team gets positive results and a thumbs up from the peer review, I have a dumb question. A net gain experimental reactor would need an approximately 30 foot diameter high vacuum chamber. Is it possible some such chamber already exists somewere in the western hemisphere, maybe N...

I was searching the internet on fusion and was suprised to discover that the Riggatron is still being researched to this day. It's now called the Compact Ignition Torus.