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I'm to lazy to research it in depth, but the anti-infective properties of vitamin C, despite Linus Pauling's enthusiasm are modest at best. The human body will only hold a small quantity of vitamin C (ascorbic acid- a mild acid), any excess over that is quicky excreted into the urine. The excess in ...

I have been looking on Google for some mention of 4th power scaling of fusion power output compared to magnetic field strength. Most end up talking about Tokamak's, as does the below article. I finally found this article that actually agrues the benifits of coper windings as opposed to superconducte...

The theory forum has not had much input recently, so I'll start a new topic, expose my ignorance, and hopefull initiate some discussion and learn from it. It seams the r^3 scaling is straight forward. So long as the 'reaction core' remains a nearly fixed percentage of the volume of the beast, the vo...

If local pits/ variations are introduced, so long as they are small ( how small are they?) and randomly distributed they should average out and not have much effect on the interior electrostatic field- no net electrostatic field contribution from the external 'spherical shell' magrid. And those area...

As tombo, said, no liquid needed. vaper deposition, or sputtering in reverse would add layers- like coating telescope mirrors. I don't know how many layers/ thickness would need to be added to restore the surface. And, does the surface need to be restored? So long as the shell is structurally sound,...

In the presumed sucessful DD configured Polywell, the He3 and trituim produced directly or by B10 bombardment by neutrons are both fuel for generating more power. Once harvested, processed and reentroduced into the reactor the helium 3 may be silghtly more complex to burn due to bremmstralung, etc, ...

This U-tube video shows how the system works with great detail- err some pretty pictures. From the little I could extract with a brief viewing- ions are injected with an ion gun, further accelerated with injection of high energy(?) electrons , apparently confined laterally with a magnetic field, and...

The WB7 was about .3T if memory serves. Thus a 100T unit of the same size would be about 333^4 ~ 10^10 as powerful at the same size. Of course, there may be no way to contain that power... I dunno. Instead of 2 neutrons, we'd have 2*10^10 neutrons? 2 mJ? I think we could handle it. :wink: Nice Art....

Another perl from that paragraph that I, at least, had not considered is the production of Helium 3. As a reactor fuel with deuterium it is comparable to deterium alone, to moderatly easier ( closer to DT in Barns in a broad range of eV), so it would not only be a possible power booster for it's par...

Assuming a breakeven DD Polywell at 3 meters diameter, what would be the average ion density and number within the Magrid at any given time? And, what would the flow rate of ions per second be to replace ions lost from fusion and containment leakage? And, what would the (input=output) power be under...

Direct conversion of charged fusion products is mentioned by Bussard (?) in this dated (~1992) review. He discusses it on page 43 and also gives a reference to a 1980's study. The link was provided to me in another thread by KitemanSA http://www.askmar.com/Fusion_files/EMC2%20Reports/IEC%20Electric%...

Thanks for the reference. I had not seen it befor. If has alot of information about the science and engeneering concerns at that time ( 16 years ago. There is alot of math, which caused my eyes to glaze over, otherwise a very interesting read.

Dan Tibbets

Or- comparing apples and apples... If the Polywell can fuse deuterium- tritium (but not any other fuel) at high enough efficiency to make a power producing reactor- like a Tokamak, how would it compare to a Tokemak in size and cost. The x-ray problems, and drive conditions would be eased compared to...

List of accidents at LHC lifted from Wikopedia. 'American made' (Ferilab) magnet design flaw found March 2007 was unrelated to this Fall's accident (I assume). "Construction accidents and delays On 25 October 2005, a technician was killed in the LHC tunnel when a crane load was accidentally dropped....

You could say, if you wanted, that the electrons shield the ions from the positive charge on the far side. But then you'd have to subtract that effect from the accelerating effect of the electrons. The upshot is the same; the correct way to look at it (to first order) is that the ions see the ball ...