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Tom, As far as I can tell there is no serious argument that says CO2 caused GW is not happening. What is in doubt? 1. Is it a good thing? 2. What is the magnitude 3. Is the feedback from WV/clouds overall positive or negative? 4. Is man mainly responsible for the increase in CO2 concentration? I wi...

Build it and they will come...

Well, military research doesn't have to show a profit... I don't know about that one. I would like to think that military research has to lead to some kind of benefit to the military's purpose, e.g. improved survival for soldiers, tactical advantage, etc. These are analogs for profit. Even the mili...

But I have never been a team player in the usual sense. I would die (soul wise) at a place like ITER or more likely be fired. In places like that boat rockers (why don't we do something completely different as a side project - this will never work) are never welcome. I hate committee work, and meet...

IMO it is past the time when any of this matters. With results (yes/no) two years or less away there is very little point in any outside funding unless a company wants to take a chance on getting a jump on the competition. And let me put it clearly: jumping in at this point is clearly a roll of the...

If that's the case, and there are no IPR barriers, why aren't they pursuing it on their own now?

It's seems more plausible that they didn't like the idea for whatever reason. The question is, what was their reason.

Why did Google elect not to fund Polywell development when they had the opportunity? They had the money. They have funded other less compelling alternative energy sources (e.g. ocean waves). And, at the time, they had a unique opportunity to work with Bussard himself. What do they know that we don't...

You would be surprised at what kind of loose change is out there for blue sky work. No kidding. Every year some yahoo claims to have an data compression algorithm that violates the mathematical limit, and there always seems to be someone willing to fund them. They usually disappear around prototype...

Thank you for the links. I'm not really new as such to the forums. I've been lurking silently for quite some time now. What's new is the posting account. Here's the issue I have with having a GW debate here on this site. First, what are potential motivators for investment in Polywell technology righ...

Quickly stepping back to the original topic... 40m is a lot of money to just about anyone except the government. I don't see a commercial party investing that much in this technology when it is at a stage where its feasibility is substantially in doubt. In another thread it was mentioned that debate...

When the only active thread on a polywell discussion forum debates the merits of global warming science, you can infer that interest in polywell technology is waning. My question is why that would be. Has some credible breakthrough occurred that rendered the idea infeasible, or is it the lack of vis...

The present projected Q values for p-11B vary from about 1.7 to about 12, depending on how the physics breaks. The details of how you do that are surprisingly subtle and coupled, and I'm not going to go into that in this forum. I view this as an "optimistic problem". There are a lot more serious is...

I don’t have strong opinions about wind power one way or the other, but I suspect that they are going to have some difficult logistics problems. One example of that is Illinois, where M. Simon lives. It’s flat and it has a lot of wind potential. It also has close, large markets in Chicago and St. L...