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http://prometheusfusionperfection.wordpress.com/ is accepting donations to help pay for his experiments.

ankovacs says in http://www.broadbit.net/download/Spherical-Polywell-geometry_v2.pdf In summary, slow electrons are turned back by towards center by electric force, and fast electrons are reflected magnetically The charge on the magnetic grid is not relevant to the behavior of a charged particle ins...

Ya, that's why it's on my list of things to do.

Back to the topic at hand, how small could you make a copper coiled truncated cube magrid and still get usefull data out of it. More to the point, would it be more economical to do so as a test bed?

I am not understanding why he puts so much faith in the reprap machine. The stuff it can make is extremely limited by size, material, and tolerance. <sarcasm> True, but building your own prototyper is what all the cool kids are doing. </sarcasm> Also there is a convince factor involved in having th...

What kind of figures of money expenses wise did you have in mind ? (Hundreds of dollars, thousands ?) I was thinking that, if this person really intends to go the distance with this, that the power supplies alone where going to be quite expensive. Add to that the vacuum equipment and chamber, plus ...

Honestly I'm half tempted to give this guy money to help him cover expenses... yes, he has no real hope of building anything that works (realistically, how many of us could afford the power supplies or vacuum chamber?) BUT he could actually give us some hard numbers. That is what is most lacking on ...

I don't suppose that anyone has any information on when the results of the wb7 will be published? Did they attempt fusion, or was this just a test of the confinement? So many questions, so little data. I'd like to just know if this is reasonable or not, do we have a new fusser with no possibility of...

Looking at the videos of the single electron simulations, the paths reminded me more of a marble in a bowl. So, would it be fair to say that the whiffle ball is more of an asymptotic potential well where the energy to escape through a cusp is sufficiently high that few electrons have that much energ...

Well, looks like google failed me on that one. The Los Alamos page had a revision date of Dec 08 2008, so I had assumed that the information was more recent.

http://www.lanl.gov/p/rh_pp_park.shtml Primarily about POPS though they reference two papers that have ,as far as I know, not been published: J. Park et al., “First experimental confirmation of periodically oscillating plasma sphere (POPS) oscillation,” submitted to Physical Review Letters. R.A. Neb...