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I often listen to the podcast. It kinda bores me when they start talking too much about american politics (because I am not american), other than that, some great programs there.

Listened plenty of fusion related podcasts, but I think I did not catch yours and MSimon one!

ok, in that case, how good is the news of such long time at those temperatures?

is that bad news for other fusion technologies competing with Tokamaks?

this article claims Wenderlstein 7X was the first in the world ever to produce hydrogen plasma? Other fusion prototypes only produced helium plasma. Is there any veracity to that? http://www.iflscience.com/physics/germanys-fusion-reactor-creates-hydrogen-plasma-world-first "Germany's Fusion Reactor ...

Merry christmas from Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil

I wonder if they shouldn't drop calling it F1, or they will spend all their money on a legal battle with FIA which probably has the acronym as a trademark for Formula One.

well, think about it, they probably had a problem with people thinking they were makers of those ultraviolet lights for nightclubs

any news from GIT and the company he was starting to fund ME Thruster research?

or did he called the investors as imbeciles for having doubts about the concept?

The Space Show radio program had an interview with Dr Heidi Fern, Mach Effect researcher... http://thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=2545 "In the second segment, Robert Jacobson and I drove down to Cal St. Fullerton to see Dr. Woodward's lab and to talk with Dr. Heidi Fearn about their mach thruster wor...

well, I guess not. Massive fail. Just thought that what is potentially like a monopole might have it´s uses...

I don´t think the technical paper panels were filmed. The convention was pretty big, but only talks in the main auditorium seem to have been filmed.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/metamaterial-magnetic-wormhole-moves.html "Researchers have transferred a magnetic field across space with a length of special tubing that acted as if it were a hose that could carry magnetic fields without them losing strength. But external magnetic fields would be ...

Tom Ligon, I am sure that you already heard about the Skylon Spaceplane, right?

oh, I did not read about the 100km tall one. such a structure would need to reduce $/kg by a HUGE margin to be worth it. However, unlike the space elevator (real one, that goes past geosynchronous orbit) you still need rockets to add a delta-v of 30 thousand km/h. maybe at that altitude SSTO would b...

what gravity losses? Because you can focus on accelerating horizontally and need to spend less energy on getting to altitude, fighting gravity. the tower is what, 20-30 km tall? You would still need to get 300 km higher for a decent dragless orbit. The gains would be marginal, after all, it would s...

I don't see much of an advantage as well. Main things you safe are drag losses and gravity losses. You might be able to use engines that are more optimized for a vacuum. But that's about it. I don't think it is worth the effort. what gravity losses? as for engine optimization, we are talking here a...