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Speaking of implications, the navy is working on a particle beam weapon for its ships, other countries will certainly want theirs. In the good old days of the cold war we always had about 30 minutes to decide to launch a counter strike. With two sides armed with particle beam weapons staring each ot...

Another dumb question, is it absolutely essential that the coils be donut shaped. Could cylindrical coils be used as long as the ends are rounded, longer coils would allow for more coolant piping, less overall surface area facing the plasma, the chamber would have to be bigger. So long as the electr...

Have dumb question. I recall being told way back when that when you super cool hydrogen to near absolute zero it becomes liquid and superconductive. If a coolant existed that was superconductive, wouldn't it be possible to form the magrid coils out of the coolant pipe itself, reducing complexity wit...

Before the positive peer review was reported, I gave the polywell odds of between 1 in 10 to 1 in 10,000. Since the peer review I give it odds of between 1 in 3 to 1 in 10. While that may be interpeted as skepticism, I've seen published odds against life evolving on earth to the blogging stage that ...

I recall something about rv batteries being used.

I saw some mention of a non-disclosure agreement that would allow Art to gain access to the data, the downside would be that it would prevent him from telling us what he can find out. I've often wondered if part of the secrecy of the project involves withholding information of a critical component t...

I've got a complete Heavy Metal mag collection going back to '77.

I recall listening to a news story out of the US last year about credit card bills. Something about the industry got a law passed that forced people to pay outstanding credit card debt before mortgage payments, and some consumer advocate saying it would have profound impact on the housing sector/eco...

Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/1 ... :b21921265

The attitude these clods have towards women isn't helping them either.

If my understanding of the final phase of wiffleball formation is right, the corner cusps are very small when complete. Electrons that come into the machine from the center of the coils and follow the flattened out magnetic field lines would have to make a better than 90 degree turn to make it out t...

On rereading the spec's , I noticed the completion date 31/12/09, and the words 'final report.' A final report would imply a final decision, possibly in the 2010 new year, unless the experiments and write-up's are completed sooner. It looks like any decision for a full scale project won't happen in ...

If my understanding is correct, the keepalive contracts previous to these, were to modify WB7 by adding ion guns+instrumentation. The idea was to test if the neutron counts were misleading and caused by ion-background gas collisions as opposed to ion-ion collisions. By awarding these new keepalive c...

If the government and VC funding never comes through, maybe they will have to start out small and work up. IEC devices are used for medical isotopes, bomb and landmine detection, mining and other industrial uses. EMC2 could start out selling small WB7 size polywell fusors in one of these categories,...

Sounds a bit like a Riggatron to me, at least in concept. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't all the major advances in higher temperature superconductors come after Dr. Bussard had switched his efforts to the Polywell. Assuming EMC2's efforts are a success, it would still be a good idea for the wor...

Found this story on levitation research, not directly related to fusion, but still interesting.

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/ ... hines.html