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I have a decent amount of faith and hope for polywell. Even then, a device to try to do pB11 before the stones are set for DD is at best ballsy. Sorry I forgot, what type of fusion are they doing right now? Is it DT or DD? DD I'm glad I missed this thread in March -- quite a lot of excitement becau...

Why did they shoot the van? And why were they so darn bloodthirsty? While the wounded guy was dragging himself along the ground they were actually rooting for him to pick up a weapon so they could shoot him some more. They may not be war criminals, but at least some soldiers there were, simply, bad...

Firstly,.getting.rid.of.the.10k.man.standing.army. Is there a particular reason you put a period between each word rather than a space? As.I've.said.previously...I.spilled.water.on.my.keyboard.a.few.days.ago,.have.not.been.able.to.stop.by.Frye's.yet.to.get.a.replacement...The.space.bar.is.hosed... ...

Not to mention the article never even mentions Monkhorst, Rostoker, or Tri-alpha by name. It's "Mystery Project." Could be talking about Polywell except for it's UF instead of Albubu.

American education for the top 10% is excellent. We have "Advanced Placement" which combines the best teachers with the best students. And our engineering schools haven't fallen for PC. My best guess? Even socialist don't want to die in a bridge failure accident. A better guess -- socialists know t...

Well, we can "hope" to hear some news,but I have the feeling that if something good will come out from Doc. Nebel experiments we can easily expect that the Navy will cover up the whole research under some national security law, like they did with the experiment of Doc. Bussard, and they will keep e...

so what kind of windmills are you building now David?

Don't let the politico-economists force you to live like battery-chickens in the same-old most efficient houses, driving to the same-old 'good-for-the-economy' jobs in you 'most efficient cars ever' (which would therefore theoretically mean we all drive the same one, as one single design will ultim...

Ok, I think I get how the MLT works, which I'll probably disprove by asking this question: How do you control an MLT's direction of thrust? ie, you gimble a rocket motor to turn or manuever. What do you do to an MLT to change the direction of the force? Or is that something that still has to be work...

IMHO the size of the Polywell isn't the main concern, the main concern is the giagantic quantity of heating power ( 100s of MW) it will take to heat a high density beta=1 lossy line cusp machine, even one of modest size. assumption 1: Polywells are lossy. Are you assuming for electrons? And if so, ...

FAR and Navy procurement rules -- China Lake can procure for $2 Mil by themselves but have to go up to NAVAIR for approval for the $8 Mil. That & the associated paperwork on both sides likely account for the significant time lapse between the last Nebel comments and this award. Does anyone KNOW whe...

Now come-on chrismb, ya GOTTA suppose that SOMETHING interesting is happening here. OK, so now that I have come down off my high, I can actually see a scenario where nothing has really changed between getting the $2M and the $8M. I can imagine a program officer saying "dang, its now Mid August and ...

Also, as P-B11 is aneutronic, alot less shielding would be required. About half as much. That is some less, not a LOT less. How do you figure that simon? I'd say the majority of cost and complexity has less to do with direct shielding and more to do with safety, chemistry and control of activation ...

I still have some doubt. Most criticism against the pollywel have been excellent refute on this site. But there is one simple exception. The pumps for maintain the vacuum. Here have I not find many good arguments. Only arguments based on authority and guess: “ Bussard must have find some solution”....

Military fission nukes aboard ship ran about 30 to 35% efficient converting thermal to work (in 1966). The efficiency depending on the temperature of the cooling water intake. And of course that is at full power. The efficiency is lower at less than full power. I'd imagine they might do a little be...