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Here's a crazy idea, but somehow I think the folks at EMC2 have already thought of it: What would the penalties be if EMC2 suddenly released their late report now...and then waited another three months to release their next report?

Sorry, that's what I get for relying on memory. :oops: A working 5MW reactor is supposed to be cycled at 330Hz. The Hz/kHz confusion was just sheer laziness on my part, but I could have sworn I read somewhere that it was supposed to be 500Hz. *shrug* The patent mentions a pulse rate of 1kHz, and som...

While I don't know exactly what Focus Fusion hopes to achieve with their current experiments, but I doubt it is net power. The goal of the current experiment is the somewhat nebulous "demonstration of scientific feasibility of net energy". What this means in more practical terms is 10,000+ joules o...

HIF 2010 has come and gone. The only post-symposium reporting I've been able to find is here. Basically, they're looking for peer review and investors. Also, they have a non-profit foundation.

Somebody brought up Polywell in the comments on the Sentinel article.

So what is the qualification for 'just citizen' if that person is born with only one parent? You haven't covered this permutation, and so this was the nugget of my question, as this permutation also provides the qualification for POTUS. The "just citizen" has to have been a citizen at the time of t...

KitemanSA wrote:Especially, what NON-EMC2 work is out there?

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec2009/talks/ ... tthewc.ppt

That and Famulus' work, but he hasn't really started testing his Polywell(s) yet.

The next report will likely be published in the first week of August. Not likely to see it early, I think the last one was out Monday May 3. The report will likely be published on July 30. I believe the last one was out April 30. It just took some people a few days to find it because somebody chang...