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Solo wrote:If you take that exponential decay curve from Kevin's thesis and do a bit of algebra, you will find a particle confinement time of 0.02 ms, which is pretty crappy.

2 kilogauss is about the same as a small NIB magnet, so I wouldn't expect much confinement.

Yeah, not quite yet I think. Once they get the refractometer in place and working in concert with the interferometer, then they'll be able to do much more useful plasma diagnostics over a wider range of operating conditions. The "real" definitive evidence of the wiffleball effect that Art would prob...

I am just reading Kevin’s master’s thesis. I like it. His explanations were very clear. Kevin’s thesis has density measurements from WB-8. At present, I do not think you can get that information anywhere else. I just finished reading the thesis myself too, and I agree, it was very well done. Howeve...

So really (assuming that all extraneous inputs have been eliminated and the experiments to date HAVE proven Mach's principle within a reasonable margin of doubt) the remaining question that Jim, Paul and Andrew (and to a lesser degree Sonny) need to answer is whether the wormhole term is a truly exp...

Didn't actually intend to post that ill-thought out conjecture about polaritons somehow muddling with universal constants :P I had connectivity issues to T-P and assumed that post didn't go through, but I decided not to send it anyway. Guess it did. Anyway, after reading up on Widom-Larsen theory, ...

Didn't actually intend to post that ill-thought out conjecture about polaritons somehow muddling with universal constants :P I had connectivity issues to T-P and assumed that post didn't go through, but I decided not to send it anyway. Guess it did. Anyway, after reading up on Widom-Larsen theory, I...

Certain polaritons require an EXTERNAL EM signal to interact with the surface for it to be generated so it MAY be that the heater is providing a certain IR frequency to create the polariton which continues on for a while after it is created. Just a plausibility. If plausible meant highly doubtful t...

This entire thread, and the fascination with this entire 'E-Cat' phenomenon is frankly ridiculous. I'm a software engineer and a complete layman when it comes to LENR, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and whole slew of other things, but even I can see that this whole thing is a complete j...

This entire thread, and the fascination with this entire 'E-Cat' phenomenon is frankly ridiculous. I'm a software engineer and a complete layman when it comes to LENR, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and whole slew of other things, but even I can see that this whole thing is a complete j...

This entire thread, and the fascination with this entire 'E-Cat' phenomenon is frankly ridiculous. I'm a software engineer and a complete layman when it comes to LENR, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and whole slew of other things, but even I can see that this whole thing is a complete jo...

Existing TPVs must be abysmally inefficient for 3% to be a remarkable improvement. Nothing to see here, move along (for Polywell at least).

Hah, nice. Yeah, I didn't see any numbers in the article, and couldn't find a paper to reference either.

Saw this today ( http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/sun-free-photovoltaics-0728.html ) and thought how it could be used to enhance the energy collection in a pB11 polywell. Line the inside of the vacuum chamber with arrays of these devices, allowing the alphas that escape the deceleration grids to h...

Just looking over their papers, it seems that this could be adapted to be used with a electromagnet type solenoid configuration instead of a permanent magnet. The novel bit is using a material with temperature-controllable magnetic permeability to modulate the field of another magnet to induce a fie...