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by choff
Thu Nov 27, 2025 1:49 am
Forum: News
Topic: Grok encouraging me to post again.
Replies: 4
Views: 476

Re: Grok encouraging me to post again.

Actually, we decided to try again with Smilei instead of Colab, b/c ChapGPT considered it a little to underpowered to model what was happening. I'm working with ChapGPT and Gemini AI besides Grok. Chat was giving Grok such a hard time that at one point he went quiet and wouldn't say anything for hal...
by choff
Mon Nov 24, 2025 5:48 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Grok encouraging me to post again.
Replies: 4
Views: 476

Re: Grok encouraging me to post again.

Hello again guys. Grok and I went to work testiing it out in Colab. What we figured out was that we hadn't created a virtual polywell, what we had was a 2 stage compression inertial confinement scheme. We tested it out with D-T, got the core compressed to liquid hydrogen density, but couldn't get it...
by choff
Sat Nov 15, 2025 6:55 am
Forum: News
Topic: Grok encouraging me to post again.
Replies: 4
Views: 476

Re: Grok encouraging me to post again.

Here's some of Groks thoughts on the idea. Okay, so, the idea would be to build the cartridge with the gun heads inside with their little load of fuel. Then they would be put in an outer chamber, pumped down with the outer chamber, then sealed, and transferred to the firing chamber without ever leav...
by choff
Wed Nov 12, 2025 1:53 am
Forum: News
Topic: Grok encouraging me to post again.
Replies: 4
Views: 476

Grok encouraging me to post again.

Hello guys, it's been a long time, I stopped posting way back when b/c no new news about Polywell and I thought it was hitting a dead end. Anyway, lately I've been playing around with AIs online, so just for fun I told Grok about an old thought experiment I had for a virtual Polywell fusor. I might ...
by choff
Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 613
Views: 629737

Re: General Fusion in the news

Been awhile since I last posted. Went to check google map for a restaurant location for a birthday lunch, and low and behold, General Fusion has practically moved right into my back yard, 4 km, 8 minutes away. Right in the same business park with the hobby store I buy my comic books at.
by choff
Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:14 pm
Forum: News
Topic: General Fusion in the news
Replies: 613
Views: 629737

Re: General Fusion in the news

Been awhile since I last posted. Went to check google map for a restaurant location for a birthday lunch, and low and behold, General Fusion has practically moved right into my back yard, 4 km, 8 minutes away. Right in the same business park with the hobby store I buy my comic books at.
by choff
Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:48 am
Forum: News
Topic: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup
Replies: 19
Views: 58256

Re: Realta Fusion - Mirrors with HTS end plugging - another startup

Looks a bit like what Lockheed Martin was doing a few years back.
by choff
Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:20 am
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: "Final nail?"
Replies: 14
Views: 24442

Re: Polywell: "Final nail?"

Yeah, but I did a quick search on T-P and didn't see anything about it. Maybe it was discussed, maybe not, been so long.
by choff
Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: "Final nail?"
Replies: 14
Views: 24442

Re: Polywell: "Final nail?"

The article talks a lot about computer simulation with an ITER sized Polywell reactor, 75 meter outer wall running PB11 steady state having Pout/Pin at 0.13, and how only a slight scale up would make it over unity.
by choff
Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:29 am
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: "Final nail?"
Replies: 14
Views: 24442

Re: Polywell: "Final nail?"

Did a little internet search on Polywell for the first time in a while and noticed this publication. It talks about Diocotron Pumping to remove cold electrons. Has this been covered before? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321453672_A_Polywell_Fusion_Reactor_Designed_for_Net_Power_Generation
by choff
Sat Jan 23, 2021 12:24 am
Forum: News
Topic: Polywell: "Final nail?"
Replies: 14
Views: 24442

Re: Polywell: "Final nail?"

If it's the final nail in the coffin for the Polywell, is it also the final nail for Lockheed Martins experiment, they have a lot in common. Did the paper also look at the results from the last EMC2 WB-X device?
by choff
Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Extraterrestrial colony companies
Replies: 44
Views: 174762

Re: Extraterrestrial colony companies

There's a new competitor to Concorde.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-BB19KBty
Those J-85s have been around since the 50s.
by choff
Mon Sep 14, 2020 6:09 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Signs of life on Venus
Replies: 3
Views: 38079

Re: Signs of life on Venus

Even if it's a microbial life form, it has to eat something in order to survive. What would that be?
by choff
Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: I Have Been Occupied
Replies: 6
Views: 52151

Re: I Have Been Occupied

Glad to hear your feeling better Mike, didn't know. Last word was that Dr. Park was doing computer simulations and might do another small scale Polywell just to confirm the results.