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- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:43 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FoI: grounds for appeal:
- Replies: 150
- Views: 73617
EMC2 IS definitely protecting their potential future commercial interests. That is perfectly legitimate, and I think few of us if any would not hope that he succeeds in commercializing polywell. What leaves a bad taste in my mouth is his previous strong suggestions that he wished he could tell us m...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:35 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Boron Fixed Target
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3944
Re: Boron Fixed Target
Indeed, if your goal is producing p-B11 fusion reactions, that is the easiest way to do so. However, some of us here are also interested in producing net power from fusion reactions.wolfspelz wrote:If we want to fuse P + B11. Why don't we just accelerate protons with 600 keV on a solid B11 target?
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Modeling Polywell
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17491
Re: Modeling Polywell
Data?! You mean there is actual data somewhere?JohnFul wrote:I'm looking for a real world model that matches data as we know it.
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:42 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: emc2's website
- Replies: 232
- Views: 151942
So, it seemed to me that the issue was just a small nagging doubt. If I have any "small nagging doubt" (and I'm not sure I do), it is that my analysis might be wrong. If you look through the archives (and have the physics background to follow my arguments and calculations), you will find quantitati...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:35 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: emc2's website
- Replies: 232
- Views: 151942
Tom, I am not understanding the doubts that the polywell is leaking like a sieve because the EMC2 site clearly states that the WB-7 tests validated the electron losses in WB-6. What am I missing? Since we don't know what the electron losses were from WB-6, it doesn't help much to know that WB-7 "va...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FoI: grounds for appeal:
- Replies: 150
- Views: 73617
7 and 8 are certainly credible enough possibilities in any bureacracy. 6 I doubt in this case. ... We still don't know much but hints and teasers. I agree with you that 7 and 8 belong near the top of the list and 6 near the bottom. I have never seen any reason to doubt Rick's integrity (although ev...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FoI: grounds for appeal:
- Replies: 150
- Views: 73617
Yeah, realistically there are a number of reasons to not want to release information: 1. ... 5. ... As long as we are creating wild speculations in the absense of any information (Got anything better to do?), why not include these on the list: 6. Things are not going well, or there is proof that th...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:29 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Wunderjahr?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12168
And yes it is viri. Virus, viri, n. The latin word for poison or slime (has more than one meaning, depending on context). The us- declination is virus, viri, viro, virum, viro, viri (nominative. pl), virorum, viris, viros, viris. Questions? Whatever the plural of the Latin word virus may be, the pl...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:14 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Wunderjahr?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12168
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: 2D WB-7 B-filed simulation
- Replies: 49
- Views: 35336
The field lines are radial in all directions. Must be a broken simulation, right? Yep. Broken. radial: 2cos(theta) + 2cos(theta-pi/2) + 2cos(theta-pi) + 2cos(theta-3pi/2) theta: sin(theta) + sin(theta-pi/2) + sin(theta-pi) + sin(theta-3pi/2) Simplifying, radial: 2cos(theta) + 2sin(theta) + 2cos(the...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:39 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 187060
I cannot do this faith-based debate. Present your case, don't present the opinions of others because I cannot debate the reasons that other people have this opinion if neither you nor I know what those reasons are. Chirismb, Do you deny that in every case ever known of Farnsworth or ETW type fusors...
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 187060
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: LHC running at 2 x 3.5 TeV
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7973
A collision between two protons, each with energy E and moving in opposite directions, will involve an energy 2E in the center-of-mass frame (which is the lab frame in that case). A collision between a proton moving with energy E and a stationary proton will have total energy E/2 in the center-of-ma...
- Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:45 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Sun Catalytix
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16365
I'm against hydrogen as an energy vector due to ... the risk of unrecoverable atmospheric damage from industrial-scale leakage Do you know more about atmospheric chemistry than I do? (It wouldn't be difficult!) H2 is not a greenhouse gas, is it? It doesn't have any bending modes, but I don't know i...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Polywell FOIA
- Replies: 475
- Views: 187060