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- Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:46 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Environmental impact of p-B11 fusion?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 44075
Taking a sociological look at energy and other limits on human population, it seems that if energy becomes cheap/plentiful enough to do insanely energy-intensive things like watering deserts and making up enough ethanol to run the world's cars, trucks, ships etc, our population will go up again, as ...
- Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hi, everyone
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15218
I'm rather strapped for cash, being a college student and all! I'd certainly be interested, but I'm not sure how much I could contribute. My feeling right now is that what we need is a large, well-built machine, and I doubt I could do anything to help with that. But perhaps some systems components c...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hi, everyone
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15218
I'm at Carson-Newman College. It's got about the smallest physics department I've ever heard of, lol! (But my dad teaches here, so I go for free, pretty much! Can't beat that.) I'm planning on going to U. of T at Knoxville for grad school, they've got much better labs etc. An internship would be ama...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:54 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: decelerating grid
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18521
I see what you are saying. Based on the Faraday cage principle, the inside of a metal conductor should not have any e-field. However, you can get around that if you have an isolated charge inside the sphere. In fact, I think the MaGrid ought to do just about right. It has to do with Gauss's law: the...
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:30 pm
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: Spreading the news about Polywell fusion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9701
- Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hi, everyone
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15218
I'm a freshman college student, math/physics double major (with a healthy interest in chemistry and engineering too), and I saw the fusor stuff several years ago and was excited, but I realized it wasn't going anywhere. So when I came across the Polywell discussion on nasaspaceflight.com forum (I'm ...