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Hello Jeff,
Welcome to Talk-Polywell.

As to data, I'll leave Dr. Mike and the usual suspects (to quote MSimon) to answer.

Enjoy your stay!

Regards,
Tony Barry

Hello Jcccarlton, I had a look at the USB vacuum seals, they look good. I do not know if any electronics would work inside the chamber where a polywell is operating ... the fusion products and the electron clouds would be very bad for any semiconductors I can think of. But any company which can prod...

I used to work on traction batteries (132VDC, 980 amp-hours) and I really moved slow and careful with those things. Think twice before moving. Especially connecting up the main feed lines (0.3 square inch copper leads) to the main contactors or the HRC fuses. They were used to drive mining locomotiv...

Hello Vernes, According to Dr. Joe Khachan, the presence of light emanating from a fusor is evidence of electron transitions, and represents losses rather than fusion. Fusion occurs with nuclear transformations, and light energy is not emitted. A good fusor is a dark fusor in Dr. Joe's thinking. Hen...

Dr. Mike, The stability of North faces pointing inwards is kind of a leaky stability ... from Dr. Khachan's comments I am given to understand that the confinement leaks electrons all round the edges and right through the centre, until the wiffleball confinement takes over and closes off those holes ...

Hello Tombo, The essential element for a polywell to confine a plasma in a stable way is to have a series of magnets whose North faces all point in (or perhaps out, I am not sure which is better, and Dr. Mike Rosen also would like to know!). Thus, in WB-6 and 7, there are six coils and six North fac...

Hello Neil, The nuclear engineers advise me that the alphas will exit from the pB11 fusion region in more or less a random direction; and they will have an energy of about 2MeV; and so the only ways to reduce the energy of impact onto the MaGrid is to either make the grid have a lower profile (narro...

Hello Neil, Welcome to Talk-Polywell. Your understandings about heat dissipation are correct. The products of fusion (of D-T etc) are mainly high-energy neutrons which bang into the MaGrid housing and both dissipate as heat and cause transmutation of the surface. This heat will have to be dissipated...

Hello Torulf,
Carbon 12 is the stable stuff. Maybe you meant another isotope?

Link

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Tony Barry

I think Duane means 1.5 x 10 ^ 9 US dollars. (a GigaDollar).

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Tony Barry

Thanks Simon, the link is altered to your specs.

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Tony Barry

Hello All,
This is the second article in a series of three regarding IEC fusion in Australia. Dr. Joe Khachan is a fusion physicist at the University of Sydney. He discusses WB-7, facilities, and future research directions.

Link

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Tony Barry

Tony, does this also mean that the standoffs are also points of electron loss? Does this means that any means to suspend the coils is a certain way to lose electrons? Isn't there a way to make the standoffs create their own magnetic field that will bend the coil's magnetic fields around them? This ...

Hello Frog, The mechanical forces on the polywell MaGrid are considerable. Tesla fields confined next to each other require serious structural restraint or they will just fly apart. At present, the MaGrid coils are supported on four standoffs, two to take current to the coils and two to provide some...

Have you seen Joe Strout's page?

http://www.strout.net/info/science/polywell/index.html

It does contain a good index, and the links are good.

Regards,
Tony Barry