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- Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Spaceship Design
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18700
About main Polywell fusion reactor - it should give at least 10 GW (20 GW would be better) of power, fuel should be hydrogen and boron B11, direct energy conversion should be used. An idea I like to play about is to have a couple of kilograms of He-3 and Deuterium mixture. For "turbo" mode. If you ...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:23 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Plasma/Fusion Research Journal - FREE
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4525
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: X-Prize Foundation
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10928
I truly believe that ground-breaking innovations will ONLY happen as a result of competitions such as ones organized by the X-prize foundation... Don't forget a more powerful force: necessity and curiosity. Heavier-then-air flying was a long time a fancy dream that many hobbyist savoured. And, perh...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talk
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24036
The object is not for the USA to rule the world. The object is to make the world safe for people and business. And for the profit of corporations and other entities that can hugely profit from it. Of course you can always hide stuff like that behind high idealism. For oil? We could have got it chea...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talk
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24036
I think Dr. Bussard was extremely modest about the benefit to mankind from polywell fusion. One of these reactors in any country is a potential Von Neumann machine, providing the means to make dozens more. Imagine a country like Haiti developing an electrical capacity equal to all North America wit...
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:10 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ITER Video
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7925
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:54 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talk
- Replies: 36
- Views: 24036
I notice he makes a rather silly logical mistake: he argues that to decrease poverty, you would need to make energy cheaper. While not unrelated, this argument is fallacious. Cheap electricity alone is not enough, you still need to develop agriculture and industry. While cheapening the electric bill...
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Project Orion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3325
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:41 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Zero Point Energy Video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6132
Newton is force; Work is Force * displacement; and for the Casimir effect the displacement approaches nothin'. Almost no work is done, almost no energy. Beside, what do you do then? Pull the Kilometer plates apart? How do you reset the ungainly machine that just produced almost zero energy. Zero po...
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Zero Point Energy Video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6132
Amusing side-note: the effect you can attribute zero-point energy is the Casimir (spelling?) effect. This is the effect that when you put absolute nothing between two plates, then they will attract eachother. To take advantage of the Casimir effect, you would need kilometre long plates to gain one n...
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:42 pm
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: Let's make an FAQ of Polywell
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17475
- Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:39 pm
- Forum: Awareness
- Topic: Let us start discrediting tokamak fusion. Wrong Shape.
- Replies: 61
- Views: 53153
Tokamak fusion is real, published and measured. Polywell is barely, and on the verge of fringe science. Do not demonise the competitor. There is more then one way to fusion. I'd prefer Polywell over tokamaks. That doesn't mean Tokamaks are wrong. esecallum Stop repeating and exaggerating what Bussar...
- Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:01 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Neutron & radioactive waste production in p11B polywells
- Replies: 38
- Views: 36002
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:40 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: Farnsworth experiments
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17573
- Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:08 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Rockets!
- Replies: 48
- Views: 46838
The need for coastal launch/recovery facilities is another one of those minor engineering problems you seem blissfully ignorant of. And it is a problem of aerospace engineering, not of nuclear nor anything regarding the Polywell. I do not see how having a launch facility makes a Polywell-based rock...