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zbarlici · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 201 Location: winnipeg, canada

Dr. Nebel sure knows how to single-file all these electrons firing in the brain. No use getting too excited until we get peer-reviewed results.

Here`s a thought. Suppose the "encouraging results" of WB6 turn out to be some kind of erroneous reading, do you think funding for this research will continue?

tonybarry · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 219 Location: Sydney, Australia

Dr. Nebel, thanks again for your post. I too work in research (cardiology) and do not expect eureka moments twice a week. Once in ten years is pretty darn good ...

That said, progress is measured by milestones - WB-7 has been delivered from the stainless fabricators; the magnetic grid has been installed; we have first light; the detectors are being set up ... all these kinds of things are good for me. In some ways I don't really need to know the details (other people ere might well want them! but it's not necessary for me). Just the plod forward, crossing the T's and dotting the i's and getting it right so Robert Bussard's ideas get the best chance to come to pass.

I correspond with some other people here in Australia and keep them informed on a layman level about your progress. You see, for many of us, we see that ITER is just not going to happen. Coal, oil, natural gas, wind, solar ... all these forms of current energy production are not going to keep going and supply what we need. Polywell may be our best hope for a future where energy is not a rationed item.

For all these reasons - your work is important. In some ways, it may be more important for the future than the research I support right now, and for that reason (like Simon and many other people here) I think I would be ready to do a move and offer what assistance I could to getting the Polywell running. I am sure you have no lack of willing workers, but the reason I write is so you understand that for many of us, Polywell represents more than just a bloody marvellous bit of kit which will actually do what it's supposed to do. It may be the only road forward for my children into a future where their choices are greater and more diverse than what mine were.

Regards,
Tony Barry

jlumartinez · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 142 Location: Spain

Let´s be patient. Research has its own tempo. So we should be glad of having some info from rnebel (Thank you !!) but they need time and tranquility to develop their ideas.

Rnebel, as you could have guessed this website is full of "freaks" (fondly) - I am one of them- so don´t get too involved in answering all our questions because we are trying to get from you as many news as we can and all the info may be -and surely will be- exaggerated and misinterpreted in our hands. Thanks for your posts but please it will be better just one weekly update: if not it will be a long suffering.... trying to read what is not written and trying to imagine the rest... Good luck and go ahead!!!

Fellows, we should be patient and realize ourselves that in days or weeks any research is not going to evolve . It needs time, dedication and good food (as any child to grow up fine)

rnebel · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 144

zbarlici:

I think the WB-6 neutrons are probably real. The measured neutron rate matches well against the expected rate if the plasma was operating in the wiffleball. But if we don't see them, then the question will be whether they aren't real or something just got screwed up. If there are open questions that need to be answered, then there is a reasonable chance the the research will continue. Let's hope that we don't get in the mode where we have to perpetually rebuild the laboratory like we've had to do this time.

Roger · Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 635 Location: Metro NY

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Nanos · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 337 Location: London UK

Isn't there enough information available in the public domain that even if not another word was said about the results, that someone else could easily replicate their own version of a WB6 and just continue the research elsewhere ?

Keegan · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

^ Nanos, I believe Dr Bussard said in his video "The Devil, is in the details"
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Tom Ligon · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 625 Location: Northern Virginia

Nanos,

Dr. Bussard did, in fact, believe there is enough information out that someone else could build Polywells. He was quite sure it would be built, one way or another.

My take on it is, they could build them, but based on what Dr. Bussard had published, they would have a lot of work to do to understand them. What went into the math was more or less known, but they would have to re-derive much of the details.

But I'd bet some people in this forum have a good head start on that.

rnebel · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 144

To Keegan:
The worldwide electricity market is $6,000,000,000,000/year. Noone has ever cornered a market anywhere near this size. We don’t think that a little 5 person company in the New Mexico desert is going to pull that off, and we’re not going to try to do that. We are presently developing commercialization strategies to open up this technology. However, right now I’m not going to tip my hand as to what we are going to try. Suffice it to say that are plans are consistent with Doc’s original vision. We’re focused on getting the WB-7 to work first.

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Nanos · Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 337 Location: London UK

If I may ask, is there a specific end date for the project that you have to worry about getting results by ?

rnebel · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 144

The contract is through the end of August.