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rnebel wrote:If it is OK with you, I may chime in from time to time on your blog. However, this is your forum and I don't want to stick my nose in too heavily.

Err. Wanted: rnebel.nose

Maybe that's why the Chinese and Russians are so focused on going to the moon to mine Helium-3 for?! Err, wow. Just when I thought the fusion folks couldn't make their technology any less affordable, apparently we're now going to import the fuel from the moon.... I know, let's just build a tokamak ...

It might be useful to do multiplies on the accelerator and adds/subtracts on the main processor. Unless they are MADDs, as those tend to run in a single cycle on GPUs.... 64bit isn't that far away for GPUs, the issue won't be computational intensity, it'll be memory. 1G video ram is terribly rare. ...

Well, I took a giant step back and found a lot of stupid ideas :D But it led me to an idea which I haven't seen bandied about, so I tried one that looks pretty good. I simply changed the E field on the MaGrid from static to be cos(w*t). Sorry for being dense -- what's the frequency here? I would th...

I'm trying to understand the conflicting messages I'm getting wrt WB7/8's configuration, and the rest of Dr. Bussard's google TechTalk. 1. My reading of the text leads me to believe that the hoop/rings will be replaced: "but would not use circular coils, rather they will use coils that follow the po...

I was going to bring that up, so, I'm glad someone else did. Probably should talk to the Folding@Home guys, as they have an ATI port. Note that it is optimized for stream processing (DSP). What we want should be optimized for cell processing. If you can design your system so that you can keep 64 dif...

Fixed magnetic fields do no work on charged particles. You can't charge superconductors by induction. They don't like changing fields. (It is being worked on) ... Heat a very small section so it is not superconducting. Input your current across that section. Once your current is up to the final lev...

Its still doing my head in. Take a coil of wire (an inductor). Put some dc current through it. A magnetic field rises with time. When the current stops, the magnetic field collapses which induces current back out of the inductor the exact reverse it entered it. The magnetic field is mathematically ...

It must seem odd to sign up to a discussion forum of far more interesting topics to respond to this thread, but, my abilities don't even allow me to understand the geometry of the confined electrons in this device, so, I follow the main threads in a state of constant bewildered interest :) I DO thin...