q2 status report
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:46 pm
i don't see that this has been mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =440045690
i like the sound of "has demonstrated excellent plasma confinement properties. "
from my experiments with the sims the mag field strength was a huge determinant of plasma confinement, so this is in line w/what i saw in my sims.
(though conversely higher field strengths also made it tougher to get electrons _in_. but then again i'm not really sure how important it is to really have very many excess electrons circulating, anyways.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =440045690
source:http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/Re ... qtr=2011Q2"The Quarterly Recovery.gov report for April 1 - June 30, 2011 states, "As of 2Q/2011, the WB-8 device has demonstrated excellent plasma confinement properties. EMC2 is conducting high power pulsed experiments on WB-8 to test the Wiffle-Ball plasma scaling law on plasma energy and confinement."
i like the sound of "has demonstrated excellent plasma confinement properties. "
from my experiments with the sims the mag field strength was a huge determinant of plasma confinement, so this is in line w/what i saw in my sims.(though conversely higher field strengths also made it tougher to get electrons _in_. but then again i'm not really sure how important it is to really have very many excess electrons circulating, anyways.)