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Well put and thanks for stating what you have stated, Tom and Billh. As for why to construct WB-8; $200 million is a lot of money to spend on something that I think we all agree we, nor Rick and company, do not KNOW will work. Do we know (caveat on do we really know anything about WB-8) what the con...

There are very large corporations out there willing to put up the money if the WB-8 turns out positive. I suspect this is the more likely path to quickly realize a full up commercial reactor. The Navy has its hands full just trying to get Enterprise and her 8 reactors out of the shipyard for one la...

Your FOIU coordinator at China Lake isn't Sandee Roberts is it? Did some work with her 10 years ago developing the requirements for the new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye.

Notice the m in MW is capitalized! Very exciting.

60 Minutes should do a piece on Polywell/EMC2. They seem to like energy stories: I sent them this suggestion almost 3 years ago taking the slant that the Tokamak focused DOE was ignoring all other avenues to fusion power, to the point of actively undermining them. Seemed like a controversial subjec...

Keep the press on. Can't wait to hear the results of your effort after all the silence to date!

If we are not meant to travel among the stars, then it seems like an awful waste of space.

My "twisted logic."

Dan, I am just going to believe that you were showing how human you are![/quote]

I'm convinced this is good news, and have very high hopes for the future. Which, I have to say, is a strange and unfamiliar feeling, but one I could get used to.

Me too.

Wow, this discussion has gone in a direction that I did not foresee. Glad to see that the trend of drifting from the subject line is going strong! Therefore:

I still do not understand how energy is being extracted for net power. How does .035 N/w efficiency turn into a net power device?

a thrust efficiency of 0.035 N/W would make it self-powering

some folks have theorized that you could use M-E thrusters when they reach 1 N/W efficiency, to power a generator to produce net power

Net Power? Uh, I don't understand. Help!

I was mowing the lawn yesterday and started wondering what would be more transformational; polywell fusion or M-E thrusters? As I pushed my two cylce gas powered mower along, I thought about how things would be different in my day to day life if either were prevalent throughout society. Until we get...

The real thanks go to the US Navy.

You're welcome!

an engine that "makes the mass of the ship and anything in it negative" Where did you get this from? If my understanding of the Mach Effect (ME) is accurate, you have to have a change in the internal energy of the "mass" in order to "see" or "use" the ME. The internal energy of the ship is not bein...

rashudo, I am most definitely not qualified to discuss the physics behind the theory, however, my meager understanding leads me to suggest a qualification of your question. Inertia is not caused by most DISTANT matter. It is caused by most matter. It just so happens that most of it (like 99.9999%) i...