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- Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:34 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
- Replies: 40
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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...
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:27 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13679
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 ...
- Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: fansworth working on his fusor again....
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13679
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...
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 ?
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 ?
- Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:58 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: SpaceX's Dragon capsule captured by ISS
- Replies: 249
- Views: 79306
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...
- Thu May 03, 2012 10:16 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: www.emc2fusion.org is down
- Replies: 38
- Views: 33440
- Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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 ...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:33 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:02 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:05 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: R. Nebel at 53rd APS Plasma Physics meeting
- Replies: 140
- Views: 82548
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...
- 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...
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...
- Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335541
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...