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by dnavas
Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
Replies: 40
Views: 13673

Re: fansworth working on his fusor again....

...if anything i was hoping for someone to present evidence to the contrary. e.g. show something innovative that the kid did w/the polywel design that showed a deep understanding of the math and physics behind it. Your statement encompasses the entirety of science. Did it? I surely didn't take it t...
by dnavas
Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
Replies: 40
Views: 13673

Re: Re:

Funny that the original Farnsworth was a Mormon IIRC. Guess he was IQ impeded as well according to happyjack and didn't have the "mind for it" to develop anything successfully. Ah well. are you really that frickin' thick?!? do you really not understand the basic concept of probability? You made an ...
by dnavas
Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
Replies: 40
Views: 13673

that's not how statistics work. Well, you're drawing a conclusion for a specific instance based on statistics, which seems similarly foolish. There is evidence for that specific case in question which refutes your statistics-based contention. This is a very silly line of argument to have begun in t...
by dnavas
Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:19 am
Forum: News
Topic: oct money
Replies: 17
Views: 9120

Would love to know how you read the blacked-out text....

At $.5M, I don't think it's going to be *very* exciting. Sounds more like some kind of feasibility review?

edit: maybe along lines of http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/000000000001025636.pdf ?
by dnavas
Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: News
Topic: SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
Replies: 249
Views: 79299

At the risk of derailing the thread further.... Folks that wish to discuss this farther should probably return from whence this board came -- back to nasaspaceflight. That place is full of supporters for privatization, as well as supporters of current policy, as well as supporters of completely dif...
by dnavas
Thu May 03, 2012 10:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: www.emc2fusion.org is down
Replies: 38
Views: 33429

choff wrote:The site's back up but it looks exactly as before, nothing new.
Indeed. Down to the email address (rick@) which presumably isn't being read....
by dnavas
Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:46 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

The higher plasma density in WB-8 prompted the need for higher heating power. Higher than what? They don't say higher than expected...they just say higher. True. They also say that they had to replace the electron source as it was insufficient. Now, if it was expected, why would they have built the...
by dnavas
Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

Unless there has been a total re-design of concept, the depth of the well is not controlled by the e-guns per-se, but the static charge on the MaGrid. The e-guns may just need to be larger to MAINTAIN that well. Ah, that sort of makes sense. If you have a denser plasma, that means you need more pla...
by dnavas
Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:37 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

I read them all again

Skipping the first entry about hiring... 12/31/2009: The main focus of this quarter was the design, procuremnet [sic] and construction of equipment for the new WB-8 Polywell device. Theoretical work was also intiated [sic] to build the computational tools required to analyze and understand the data ...
by dnavas
Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:33 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

Those seem like a good set of options. The wording suggests that the driving force for these changes is that plasma density is higher. I assume that this was unexpected (why build the machine under-specd?). That doesn't immediately make me suspect electron loss (the less precise reading <<we need mo...
by dnavas
Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:02 am
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

During 4Q of 2011, EMC2 has modified the electron injectors to increase the plasma heating. The higher plasma density in WB-8 prompted the need for higher heating power. We plan to operate WB-8 in high beta regime with the modified electron injectors during 1Q of 2012. Seems like if the machine ope...
by dnavas
Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:05 pm
Forum: News
Topic: R. Nebel at 53rd APS Plasma Physics meeting
Replies: 140
Views: 82486

Or, he figured out it can't work, left the company, and is keeping quiet about his opinion out of respect to Park and the legacy of Bussard. Too simple? Given: "Nuanced" An attempt to publicly debate possible failure modes (w/Art) An experimentalist replacing a theorist Delivery dates continuing to...
by dnavas
Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: This Ought to Be Useful for Plasma Diagnostics
Replies: 1
Views: 2408

Re: This Ought to Be Useful for Plasma Diagnostics

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/39329/?p1=A2 I don't know about the limitations of streak cameras in high-energy environments, but this looks like an interesting diagnostic tool for a whole bunch of things, including plasmas. I believe it works by looking at a single scanline at a time an...
by dnavas
Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:08 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

Age 5: Fork in socket....wide-eyed after that experience. A little older (8ish?), pretended wall socket was for car keys. Experimented with how far I could put the luggage keys in before being electrocuted. Found out. More surprised than anything else, but screaming was involved. Not as bad as, say...
by dnavas
Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
Replies: 1822
Views: 1334831

The change to R. Nebel's involvement was before first plasma for WB-8, so I can't see anyway to make a technical deduction one way or another. That's the most important point. If this is really true, and I just can hope so because I don't know you dear quote source, than it is indeed 100% impossibl...