John Slough gets NIAC PhaseII award!

[paperburn1]

Anyone have an idea what the mechanism and magazine would look like that would be able to load the aluminum (or lithium) foil liners (hoops) into position for magnetic driven collapse? Could they come off a roll onto a drum? Maybe get ahold of some Budweiser engineers?

I toured the budweiser plant and I think they could make that happen easily. Beer bottling section was amazing!

[krenshala]

I would settle for cheap to LEO , then everything else is math and if necessary brute force.

LEO is "half way to anywhere" in the system.

[Skipjack]

I agree that getting to LEO cheaply would be the most important thing. That is more difficult though.

[Betruger]

Helion Energy new plan is to build a 50-MWe pilot of its “Fusion Engine” by 2019 after which licensees will begin building commercial models by 2022.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/05/helion ... t-had.html

[Skipjack]

Very cool! I wish them lots of funding!