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by Giorgio
Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

And it will be quite a good shake up to the fossilized scientific institutions.
I am really curious to see how this will end.
by Giorgio
Sun Apr 23, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

They do not seem to be looking for any external funding for now, which means that they are quite convinced of their results.
by Giorgio
Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:23 am
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

The just released a new presentation video on Youtube. Nothing new, but they seems to be pretty confident of their experimental results. It will be interesting to see what will happen in June. We will either learn how to improve Earth experimental setup to remove false positives or we will witness t...
by Giorgio
Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:43 am
Forum: News
Topic: My experience with Chat GPT-4
Replies: 11
Views: 2437

Re: My experience with Chat GPT-4

Diogenes wrote:
Tue Apr 18, 2023 7:30 pm
That is very humanlike. We do that too.
Indeed. You made a good point.
by Giorgio
Wed Apr 12, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!
Replies: 8
Views: 2137

Re: youtube Polywell critique with response from EMC2!

I am not really sure why he had the need to come out with such a video. It seems just a collection of hypothesis and half right/half wrong assumptions stick together to fill 30 mins of a video. But what really makes me really wonder is that he has been part of this board since the start (mattman) an...
by Giorgio
Sun Apr 09, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

It's been many years since last post. Most of the folks at the nsf forum are convinced this will not work. However the fact that this will be launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter 8 mission says a lot. Launch is set for NET June 10 2023. I give them full respect for believing on the idea and putti...
by Giorgio
Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:53 am
Forum: News
Topic: First Light Fusion News
Replies: 18
Views: 17355

Re: First Light Fusion News

Nick Hawker, First Light Fusion founder and CEO, has a blog ( https://nickhawker.com/ ). The whole blog is written to be on favor of their solution skipping most of the latest advancement in research (as example the latest pB11 cross-section review that we discussed few weeks ago here ). That said,...
by Giorgio
Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:13 am
Forum: News
Topic: Stellarator Fusion Company: Type One Energy
Replies: 2
Views: 880

Re: Stellarator Fusion Company: Type One Energy

It seems like they want to capitalize on the recent Japanese-German breakthrough in Stellarator design that we discussed a month ago in another thread.
by Giorgio
Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: My experience with Chat GPT-4
Replies: 11
Views: 2437

My experience with Chat GPT-4

Warning, this is going to be a long post not related to Fusion but to AI and GPT4 in general. I spent the last couple of days testing Chat GPT-4 on different levels of complex technical and ethical queries and I thought it was interesting to summarize my experience with it. First Part: I started wi...
by Giorgio
Sat Mar 18, 2023 5:34 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

It seems like Mike McCulloch is involved with this company.
He is the ideator of "Quantized inertia" that was discussed in another thread few years ago.
by Giorgio
Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:24 pm
Forum: News
Topic: EM Drive
Replies: 785
Views: 602315

Re: EM Drive

Well, 45 mN/W is not huge, is totally insane if true. It's 3 orders of magnitude better than an ion thruster and without fuel. I mean, there is no word to describe the changes this will bring IF true. I am quite skeptical due to lack of any real information and the excessive use of the word "quantum...
by Giorgio
Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:50 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Replies: 880
Views: 527335

Re: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter

In truth I have the impression that they lost the experimental drive that they had in the start few years ago.
Maybe they need to bring into the team some new minds with fresher ideas and someone solely focused on solving all those smaller issues that are bogging them down.....
by Giorgio
Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Superconductivity at low temperature and low pressure
Replies: 2
Views: 989

Re: Superconductivity at low temperature and low pressure

Impressive.

Lately there are so many interconnected technological singularities that are finally inching closer and closer to success that is hard to keep pace with all of them.
by Giorgio
Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: TAE completes first tests of hydrogen-boron fuel cycle
Replies: 11
Views: 1967

Re: TAE completes first tests of hydrogen-boron fuel cycle

FWIW isn’t their power plant design enormous? Like O(~100m)? 1 Mw/m^3 might be Ok. Though in any case I don’t see that having much to do with the paper’s modelling assumptions. Well, considering the importance of the finding it will probably be anyhow a good time to revise also their planned plant ...
by Giorgio
Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:39 pm
Forum: News
Topic: TAE completes first tests of hydrogen-boron fuel cycle
Replies: 11
Views: 1967

Re: TAE completes first tests of hydrogen-boron fuel cycle

Has anyone access to that Nature article ? A rough idea of the main points would be appreciated. The paper is public, you can see it HERE . By the way, if TAE think they can reach 200 MeV in steady state, wouldn't it be easier with pulsed machines, like Helion's. Helion is using a different approac...