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@Rob: Let's do it. I've got an idea: what if you could set up a B-dot probe, to measure whether the plasma was pushing the magnetic field. I don't know if you'd be able to see that, but it's something that hasn't been done, that's for sure.

Cool! Famulus got a big PR break! @Robthebob: Yeah, I'm half-tempted to try my hand a fusor. But I think I may just buy a plasma globe to get my 'oohh, pretty colors!' fix. I'm sure the Sydney group will come out with more - plasma physics just goes too darn slow though! (I guess you probably know t...

@MirariNefas: haha! That's a cool story. And the "big scary laser" sign was on the lab where I worked! @Ben & icarus: I can deal with vodka and scandinavian women... haha! Slough's actually got a couple different labs, b/c he does some of his work through a spin-off company (MSNW). They look like yo...

I second Kiteman! Please keep the politics out of here! @Mirari: very cool about your visit to UCLA. When did you that? I did the REU program there this past summer (2009),,and I worked with the HEDP group. (I'm actually going back this summer as well.) HEDP is in the same building as the old Electr...

Well, I had to decide today... I was hung between U. of Wisc - Madison and U. of Wash - Seattle. I decided that since Madison has a bigger/better program, that's where I will go, even though around here Seattle gets most of the press, and personally I think Seattle is a much neater city. So, Robtheb...

Yeah, I think we can expect to hear something interesting out of Tri-Alpha soon. NIF is going to surprise many folks as well: from what I gather, it is very likely get a pretty good Q sometime this year, and that may change a lot of perception about it. Good luck getting that info, btw! (trying to s...

I'm with Kurt: we should try to find something more productive to do with the forum. (I'm biased toward Slough & Helion -- I'm looking at going to UW-Seattle for grad school in physics, starting this coming Autumn.)

@ RobtheBob: cool! Best of luck with your studies!

This is in response to Chrismb's remarks in this thread: http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1576&start=15 [quote='Chrismb'] It's a shame that these things are for academics only. I mean, if someone has an idea who's not an academic then they wouldn't be funded to go to such a thing even...

Haha, I totally missed that internal fusion engine! @Chrismb: I see your point. In fact, I really wish I could have gone, but I'm not sure they'll allow spectators who aren't presenting, and it would be kinda expensive. Anyway, let's stay on topic. I'll start a thread the science culture in 'general...

Hey, I found the website for the Innovative Confinement Concepts Workshop 2010: http://www.iccworkshops.org/icc2010/proceedings.php They've got all our usual suspects: General Fusion, Eric Lehner, LDX, FRC stuff, and even a bit on POPS (not by Nebel, tho!). Oh, and some guy with a very polywell-ish ...

Well, apologies for tooting my own horn here, but I thought you might be entertained to see what I spent this past summer doing: http://reu.physics.ucla.edu/2009/home.htm http://reu.physics.ucla.edu/common/papers/2009/morton_lucas.pdf http://hedp.physics.ucla.edu/ Basically, I built some B-dot (magn...

Check out what they are doing at U. of Washington - Seattle: a DOE project to make a predictive computer experiment system for exploring innovative confinement concepts. Pretty sweet, huh? http://www.aa.washington.edu/research/PSI/ http://www.aa.washington.edu/research/PSI/research.html "The PSI-Cen...

Here's a supposedly updated pitch from Helion, they are much more enthusiastic in this, and perhaps the neutron graph is new (no units, unfortunately...). http://www.helionenergy.com/Helion_Presentation-Web2.pdf I noticed that they also have a "sponsored link" on Google -- they are advertizing! (I s...

I think the occasion for the press release is the first real publication from the experiment while actually levitating the coil (they'd done some stuff with the coil sitting on struts). So, it's newly operational, but it's not a new idea, it's been in the works for several years.

Well, ICC could mean "innovative confinement concepts" which includes IEC, as well as FRCs, RFPs, spheromaks, and even spherical tori by some definitions.