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If you were a Mechanical Engineering student and really wanted to work on this, or a similar project, what would you do to make that happen? Would you stay at a school such as Western Michigan University, complete your degree, and attempt to sell yourself cheap to get your foot in the door? Switch p...

What do we need for output to support the B-field for pB&j?

I know this thread was based on the idea we need varied strengths for each shape...

But for the hypothetical round magnet with the 15cm hole, and boron... what do we need?

Ok... lets build one. We need a dozen research grade 50-60 Tesla MRIs to pull apart, a tank the size of a small living-room, pumps, enough batteries to light up a medium size city, some very high end power management equipment... electron guns, ion management hardware, a full machine shop, some micr...

KitemanSA re: "The prime reason I have been looking for other polyhedra is the question of sphericity. MSimon believes that any lacking of sphericity can be made up by additional size; and for terrestrial use, I concur 100%. But trying to squeeze things into ships, submarines, and spacecraft can ma...

So, a more spherical form, made up of minimally sized coils would be the most efficient from a size to core diameter standpoint. Spheres are the best way to contain any given volume. We have our min. coil diameter to avoid Alphas heating them up on the way out... 15cm I said, but MSimon said slightl...

Ladies and Gentlemen, there is Hope! And Change! Media as we know it is changing. How many of you still watch the homogenizing broadcast news? Is it your major source of information? Do you trust it? In one of the new polls, 18% of the people said they were "Tea Party"! That group has been derided a...

For a full-size machine, the issues that would stop a small school/group would seem be the power requirements, and the large vacuum tank/pumps. How much could we salvage out of other machines? ie coils and cooling from MRIs, tanks from "x?", and pumps from "?", power controls and instruments from "?".

What would stop us from constructing a hectogon, or megagon for that matter, polywell? Sorry for the snootiness, but -ogons are planar figures and as far as i know, we can't have a planar polywell! :o _-ahedrons are 3D figures. The hexahedron will only work well if it is truncated, and the more tow...

Huh? You've got me confused, Heath. I'm talking about something that puts itself together, and it sounds like you're talking about a reusable SSTO with significant payload. Sort of both. My first statement referred to the automated/self docking/self assembling structures. I thought all that was dis...

What would stop us from constructing a hectogon, or megagon for that matter, polywell? So long as the exterior magnetic field exists, and it's cusps are pushed closed from internal electron population... does it matter what % of the reactor core radius those fields extend?(inward) If the contained e...

http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2007/05/operating-voltage-for-b11.html I'm reading.... Thanks for the link! I love this blog! I promise, I'll get up to speed on the math and terminology in a few weeks. Can you direct me to a description of the electron distribution inside an operating WB reactor a...

Just wait. A major player with a good patent will fund another "Chicken Little-esque" environmental uproar, and the politicians will ride the funding and votes to make it law. Greenhouse gasses and Carbon Credits may be on their way out, but I have faith in human nature and purchasable science/activ...

Come now, at least we aren't still fighting about CFCs and the chemistry of ozone depletion by heavier than air substances. Odd how that seems to have evaporated as an issue. Dupont must not have a new patented chemical it needs to sell for refrigeration.

I know the MIT patents showed real promise for energy density... of course they also arranged the nanotubes like hairs on the surface of a very small sample and extrapolated the implications. If the Graphine layers can be separated just enough to allow the electrons to populate the boundary, instead...

If it wasn't for those pesky neutrons...

This reads like something Bussard might have written explaining why Tokamak was "No darn good".