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by choff
Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:15 am
Forum: General
Topic: Innovative new company
Replies: 4
Views: 1847

Innovative new company

Found this website for an innovative new health sciences company. There should be a definite appeal to all Libertarians and other progressive thinkers here at talk polywell:

http://www.summakor.com/about.html

Be seeing you.
by choff
Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:16 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: non-local effects on ion-electron energy transfer
Replies: 52
Views: 20995

I was thinking if the well is shaped like a flat bottomed bucket, the polywell might work like a 3D pinball game with the steep slopes acting like bumpers and the ions millions of pinballs. So you get lots of Brems and electron losses, but it can hold a lot of ions and make a lot of fusion. Art migh...
by choff
Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:40 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: non-local effects on ion-electron energy transfer
Replies: 52
Views: 20995

I was rereading the interview with Tom Ligon on "The Polywell Blob" and I came upon this: Some of the technical details I used to think I understood, but my discussions with Dr. Nebel and others over the last year or so convince me that the understanding of their operation has changed considerably s...
by choff
Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:28 am
Forum: News
Topic: Focus Fusion On Slashdot
Replies: 141
Views: 42130

I did a quick search for documents critiquing Rider. This is probably old news.
http://fsl.ne.uiuc.edu/IEC/IEC_report_IVG.H.Miley.doc
by choff
Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:27 am
Forum: News
Topic: Focus Fusion On Slashdot
Replies: 141
Views: 42130

If the understanding of the contract info is correct, the results on WB8 will be delivered end of April. If it's a flop, we shouldn't expect funding for WB8.1. Maybe we get an annoucement its a flop, maybe they get a few more months to try and make it work first. If it doesn't flop, and they get the...
by choff
Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Ultimate Betrayal
Replies: 34
Views: 8574

There's this new law as well: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/09/21/bc-assistance-to-shelter-law.html So visitors won't see any poor people or addicts on the streets, they're being pushed into hotels. We do have Lefties that would like to turn the Winter Olympics into "Battle in...
by choff
Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The Ultimate Betrayal
Replies: 34
Views: 8574

Where I live we have this: http://mostlywater.org/antiolympic_signs_could_mean_jail_says_bc_civil_liberties_group We had a similar situation hosting an Asia-Pacific conference of world leaders a few years back. Some of the bodyguards for some of the world leaders with diplomatic immunity wanted to s...
by choff
Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: In the beginning...reverse evolution.
Replies: 83
Views: 23170

There was a story in the newspapers a year or two ago about how paradoxically it would require a diet of cooked animal protein for primitive homonids to evolve a large enough brain to finally discover how to build a fire. I haven't heard anything about this lately. Some King James edition biblical f...
by choff
Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: News
Topic: J and A for WB-8
Replies: 9
Views: 3900

Classical Values takes it up: http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2009/10/wb8_contract_pr.html I remember when WB7 was funded, we were a little bit surprised when Dr. Nebel said 'its running like a top' so soon afterward. EMC2 might have fairly advanced plans for WB8 already. Two more years for ...
by choff
Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:10 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: Translating FRCs
Replies: 41
Views: 22646

Can a FRC be run inside a Stellarator, or would that be counterproductive to confinement?
by choff
Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:38 am
Forum: News
Topic: Major Electronics Magazine Picks Up On Polywell
Replies: 162
Views: 83360

Humans didn't kill off the Indian elephant after coming out of Africa, unless we evolved at essentially the same time in India, or Elephants are tough chewing/bad tasting or easier game was abundant in Asia but not North America. I've heard of sled dogs eating dug up frozen mammoth meat.
by choff
Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:29 am
Forum: News
Topic: Major Electronics Magazine Picks Up On Polywell
Replies: 162
Views: 83360

I've always wondered why, if the hunter-gatherers started in Africa, expanded into Asia, came to North America from Siberia and then wiped out the large mammals in the western hemisphere, they didn't first wipe out the Elephants and Rhino's in Africa.
by choff
Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:25 am
Forum: News
Topic: More news on latest contract
Replies: 14
Views: 5265

My best guess from reading the pdf's is March next year for WB8 at the earliest, and then possibly March 2012 for WB 8.1. You have to expect conversion to PB11 will take a reasonable amount of time, one month would be incredibly fast, two years makes sense.
by choff
Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189531

On the issue of the birthrate, people are having less children because they simply can't afford to. Immigration is encouraged by the business community to keep wages down, and low fertility is the consequence. If the immigrant population has a higher birthrate, it's because relative to the old count...
by choff
Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: Healthcare & rationing
Replies: 604
Views: 189531

I recall a documentary on Heroin + news articles that it was originally invented for relieving pain in Cancer patients and amputees. This is apparently how it is used in England. I have no objections to doctor prescribed drugs with proper monitoring for Cancer and Amputation pain. In fact, I remembe...