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Well now you've gone and made me look up the actual papers, which incidentally were not behind a paywall for me - let me know if they are for you. University of Sydney paper: http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v18/i11/p112501_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1 (this one mentions wiffle ball terminology...

Me too. But that said, I really do think they have moved past "Wiffleball" and are now fully into scaling. Seriously, why test scaling if you do not have confinement? What would be the purpose of seeking to show, "oooh! Looky Here! Even more crappy confinement than the smaller version!" the optimis...

ladajo wrote:...
Personally, I think you can 100% sure that Wiffleball is proven at this point.

Personally, i'd like to see that

a) published somewhere in a peer reviewed journal
b) replicated successfully by someone else,
c) fully characterised

... before being '98.5%' sure

How exciting is this news to everybody else? M.... ... just nice to see the subject is still (just about) alive. particularly nice to see posters on plasma stability and pops - pretty rare. also the Japanese focus on DEC - looks good work. just wish the convention was bigger/more buzzing. pretty sm...

just read the Josh Sloan poster - 'Optimizing a Multi-Grid Inertial Electrostatic Confinement System to Maximize Fusion Power Generation' - looks like he's got a good handle on the maths. i was confused at first by his treatment of 'annealing', thinking it be the infamous (/presumed) edge annealing,...

good find chaps. quite a few familiar names presenting there. looking forward to any publications thereafter.

here's a pretty neat idea for dealing with intermittent energy generation: http://www.highview-power.com/wordpress/?page_id=1320f for those who can view it - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689 and another vid of the (engine/plant) inventor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOImbv_x...

303 wrote:isn't the next quarterly report due any day now?

erm - i was under the impression none such was due (but i may be wrong). all hangs on any 'go ahead' for 8.1 now becoming visible. no?

i must say, i feel people are being a little 'harsh' with Polywelfan. having said that, it does seem on the face of it that Polywelfan (who last posted here 'some months ago'), hasn't actually bothered to read/catch up and comprehend all of the intervening posts/updates. Instead, he has 'jumped in' ...

rather than meaningless anecdotal evidence - here are a few hard statistics - for the UK at least: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/14/mortality-statistics-causes-death-england-wales-2009# i'm sure the US has similar published figures somewhere. zoom in on the chart, under 'Mental an...

i don't usually enter into discussions on this subject. for the simple reason that 'reason' itself rarely seems to apply to any of the arguments against; ie. it is unwinnable. but for the record, i am a long-time 'recreational' user of chemicals, with no regrets and no harm, to myself or to anyone e...

yep. brilliant idea i think. aka chrismb doesn't seem to think however it will be much good (as it is) for fusion. i think he is just being modest. been meaning to engage him in discussion over at fusor.net.

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...in particular: ICCF-17-Godes-Controlled-Electron-Capture-Paper - http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Godes-Controlled-Electron-Capture-Paper.pdf ... ... Brillouin's lattice stimulation reverses the natural decay of neutrons to protons and Beta particles, catalyzing this ...

some interesting papers from 17th International Conference on "Cold Fusion" ( Aug. 12-17, 2012, Daejeon, Korea) just published: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17.shtml in particular: ICCF-17-Godes-Controlled-Electron-Capture-Paper - http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences...