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Lighter weight quick charge power source would be good in the automotive industry. Especially with charging stations becoming available. So the cost is the problem, coupled with the risk of the refrigeration drawing down the power while parked until ... well, until refrigeration fails for lack of p...

The problem with nukes is that you need very highly trained operators to avoid criticality accidents. Get that one solved and nukes will proliferate. Isn't the exactly the reason why small, unpressurized liquid sodium reactors such as the Toshiba 4S are being built -- to avoid all that tedious worr...

I believe these Ideas have been discussed here before, but some people might not be familiar with them. Renewable energy such as solar, wind, and biodiesel do not seem to be sufficiently available. Burning oil, gas, and coal not only make a mess, but they also tend to finance despots (both corporat...

What I mean is, if I remember correctly, in a Proof-By-Contradiction, you start with two things: 1) one or more things you already know to be true, and 2) by assuming the thing you are trying to prove false is correct (that is, you are trying to prove it's false, so you assume it is true), then sho...

jsbiff wrote:Anyone have a link to a good article on *why* ITER is now so over the original budget? Wasn't it originally slated to be about 5 Bn Euro? Now it's up to something like $15Bn?

I'd be willing to produce something that doesn't work for a mere $1 million.

I think we all know the best use of polywell is SSTO earth-orbit launcher with high mass fraction. Just sayin' I think we all know the best use of polywell is building power plants so we can have energy to power civilization without burning coal, buying oil from despots in the Middle East and South...

Garamendi successfully inserted language that directs the Department of Energy to create a roadmap for fusion energy production no later than 180 after the release of a National Academies report on inertial fusion energy research . What is this report? Has Livermore been doing IEC fusion research?

If this contract goes to phase 3 we probably won't hear anything until 2015-18 at the earliest. If the idea is totally dead in the water, producing a shiny new and expensive device which takes more energy to produce fusion then it creates (i.e. just like every other fusion approach to date (other t...

Would you like to share 'in what way' you think it'll work? If built ITER will certainly be able to generate plasma... In that regard I have no doubt it will work. For small values of the word "work". If built, I wouldn't be surprised if the plasma escapes the magnetic containment, melts through bi...

*thumbs up* Just the kind of Press Polywell needs. Except of course for the fact that the article did not mention the word "Polywell" and quoted ITER people as if they were the One True(tm) fusion experts... Only people already in the know would realize the article is describing a homebrew Farnswor...