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I posted the following question on his blog two days back. It appears to have been rejected by the moderator. [...] Chris Bradley Your comment is awaiting moderation. May 4th, 2011 at 6:00 PM Why do you not run a ‘null’ test before your demonstrations – for example, i) why do you not heat the syste...

It's most likely not real. I've been following via friends in Italy and there are too many holes. Here's a good site which lists many of the possible scams: http://lenr.qumbu.com/ Many are still possible. The key here is the physics is not patentable. If they have new physics, there is no reason to ...

Congrats to Rick and team! Good luck getting all the work in the proposal done on time. Should be a fun project.

I ran across this by accident today: arxiv.org/pdf/0908.4362 "The performance results show that CUDA is an attractive parallel computing environment for MHD simulations." This is similar to the theory we need to model for Polywell, and can be taken as proof of principle. I also priced a 4 Terraflop ...

Early bombs were called fission-fusion-fission bombs, because they worked that way. The U-238 wasn't transmuted, it was directly fissioned by the different kind of neutron put out by the fusion reaction--I can't remember how exactly all that worked. modern "clean" weapons place a greater focus on t...

I'll have to get that from work - at home I don't have xcell. If it's direct numerical integration, should be fine. The problem with blowing things up is that it takes time to replace the parts. :D I mostly have to deal with life this summer, so it will be a long time before I can really have some f...

A little over a year ago Tombo asked about a straight wire configuration, and I posted some math that figured out the field for it. I had the opportunity to actually use that in my day job, and what I found was that my starting point was slightly wrong, so that while I got the units right, I had don...

On a submarine you use one heat exchanger to prevent radiation from getting into your turbines, on a normal plant you use two heat exchangers for safety. You can go direct and gain efficiency, but you lose big on the radiation damage to your turbines. The impurities in the water absorb the neutrons ...

To accurately simulate is really difficult. Every model that does not follow 1e23 particles with 1e-12 second precision must have approximations - right now 1e15 flops is pretty darn good. We need 1e34 to simulate perfection, and that isn't going to happen in the next 20 years. There are many good m...

Another view is to look at back emf. Every time you try to push current against a field, the field pushes back on the current. In a plasma, you can do that to the point where all the current is on the surface and all the field is on the surface too. The plasma inside doesn't see any external field b...

Yes, we discussed that a while back. It's a great idea, but we first need to know which model to use. The Vlasov solver is a choice, but it is not the only one. In a sense it is a chicken and egg problem - without some real data, we don't know which model makes the most sense, and without a bunch of...

And if you really want to go nuts, check out the Journal of Geometry and Physics.

Clifford Algebras and Manifolds are also good things to look into. N dimensional spaces seem complicated, but they tie a lot of complexity together for better understanding overall.

Thanks for the pointer to the quaternian paper. There's a typo in equation 14. The + in front of the v/c^2 should be a - (and that is consistent with the rest of that section). The end of section 3 is kind of dubious to me. The authors use the same vector potential to represent two different things,...

Thanks! I don't have much time these days to play with my own toys, but in a few weeks
I hope that lets up and I can dive into this stuff again. That's a great find!

Speaking of communism and psychology - I always think of "red" as "communist". So when I see republicans in red I just assume they are
communists!! It's really dumb because obviously they are fascists.