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Since you guys are talking alot about the law of accelerating returns and life extension, I was curious.

Has anyone else here looked at the Orion's Arm website?

Suppose the peer reviews over and we're told that theres one or two reasons why the polywell won't work. Now we have an extremely dedicated group of people here who are so "sure" it will work that I feel we'd have trouble accepting the news (I'm probably in that category). So what would everyone do ...

There have been realistic concepts and studies for mining and even COLONIZING the interior of the Sun. With humans as they are now. They wouldn't be for very long. Haha yeah really. I've read sun-diver but thats not "realistic". Someones been reading a little bit too much science fiction 8) :lol:

Does anyone else see a perfect storm of potential technologies all maturing about 10 - 15 years from now? The synergy of high density supercapacitors, polywell fusion, and robotics/AI will change everything from how we travel to international politics. Usually, world changing technologies hit us on...

And if your into the shady side of things, you can always download it for free with BitTorrent.

But you didn't hear that from me...

Rob, I had a post a few weeks ago about going to grad school to learn about how to better apply the polywell to propulsion. (I'm an aerospace engineer - my only exposer to electrical is in lightning susceptibility testing) I'm glad to see that this idea is inspiring other college students as well. H...

I think that the group is prudent not to release any details until after the review process is complete, in order to avoid a "cold fusion" fiasco. After the document is released for peer review, how long will it be until the paper is available to the general public? I'm looking forward to reading i...

The most upsetting part about this entire thread is that it is almost lunch time where I work and I'm still waiting for someone to find the beef.

Nah, I thought Ligon's idea above was the best, I'm surprised no one commented on it. I might opt for a more modern platform. Is the Exxon Valdez still afloat? That would send one hell of a message. If Exxon feels it has to convert to a polywell company just to keep alive it would be a good idea to ...

Good points, but just for the sake of argument... ... you need to ensure that roads without a power grid have a way for vehicles to recharge too. Charge it at home. You should have enough range on battery alone for at least 30 or 40 miles, any further than that and you might as well use the freeway....

Heres an idea that would be good for shipping: So imagine that electric powered vehicles start to become popular. An interesting civil engineering project for the government could be charging vehicles with Resonant Induction. I imagine that would just electrify the interstate freeways. That way elec...

Yeah the spray gliders seem pretty cool. It would be difficult to create an airborn version but likely possible. I didn't think of changing the bouyancy.. hmm.. rcain: Yeah your idea is different than what I thought but still interesting. I'm still trying to wrap my head around a practical use for it.

with the right drag vectors, aspect ratio and angle of attack it, it sails through the air even into wind (+/- 20 degrees or so), with no engine at all! I may be minsunderstanding what you are trying to say, but a yacht/sailboat can only sail into the wind if it has water to push against. (The "lif...

So you're imagining a balloon shaped something like a pizza wedge? Rather than having two, why not shape this wedge like a lifting body, with small control surfaces for manuevering. I wasn't thinking of something in the shape of a zepplin, I was thinking of something more akin to the Aeroscraft . It...

McCain doesn't need to propose a prize for polywell, he knows the government is developing it and if the review goes well they'll get all the money they need. The point of prizes is to encourage competing approaches. And there aren't that many approaches out there for fusion. For batteries it's comp...