Talk-Polywell.org

An article on Slashdot where questions on fusion where put forward by members and MIT fusion researchers answered their questions. Polywell is mentioned, but very briefly amongst alternative methods.

Polywell is mentioned a couple of times briefly in the article as well as the comment section along with links back to the 'Talk-Polywell' and EMC2 web sites.

You can read about it here.

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Polygirl

lol, they answered 4 questions (all on non-mainstream approaches) together, lumping even stellerator, which is very similar to toks, (definitely a type of toroidal magnetic confinement) and answered them all with a kinda aggressive form of i dont know by saying they dont know and " these groups need to show that they deserve funding."

I'm very very surprised that they would brand even stellerator, pretty much the sister machine of toks as "alternative", even though in other parts of the world there are most definitely very impressive machines and programs. That's crazy.

I'm also very surprised that they would go ahead and say that NIF, which is apparently further along than toks are (beam compression I mean to say), is not really in the business of fusion energy, wtf?

Not meaning to suggest anything, but maybe Dr. B's bitterness wasnt unfunded, people want to protect their rice bowls.

I'm also very surprised that they would go ahead and say that NIF, which is apparently further along than toks are (beam compression I mean to say), is not really in the business of fusion energy, wtf?

Well, to be on target, NIF is in the business of weapons research. They are funded for this purpose. The power thing is a by-product. NIF is a result of the test ban treaty(s).

Experiments conducted on NIF will make significant contributions to national and global security, could lead to practical fusion energy

https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/nif/