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Message for all you amateur fusion enthusiasts out there: All TV-watching cancelled for today:

Here is your alternative pastime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuAV315__OE

Grab a cold beer, get down in your couch and relax. Come back for a healthy debate when ready.

Lousy technical quality. Almost useless.

If anyone sees these slides ever posted, Please let us know in this thread. I'm not going to finish this video, but I'd like to see the slides.

This Google presentation was apparently by another lab. at the University of Washington. Their RFC is a stationary ... um... bubble in the center of the machine that is maintained steady state. He mentioned that another lab was using a pulsed approach that fires from both ends to meet in the center (version that I believe has been discussed some here). He said the other lab is (?) able to punch in much more energy than they have been able to do. Their maximum temperatures have been ~ 200 eV.

I wonder which of these two approaches Tri Alpha is persuing, or if there are other FRC approaches.

Dan Tibbets

If anyone sees these slides ever posted, Please let us know in this thread. I'm not going to finish this video, but I'd like to see the slides.

Some googling gave this:

http://depts.washington.edu/rppl/presen ... index.html

Look for Grossnickles papers