This film explains the Polywell in 15 minutes. It is organized into 7 sections:
I - 0:00 Introduction
II - 1:23 The Geometry of Bussards Machine
III - 3:54 The Mechanism
IV - 9:13 Plasma Details
V - 11:55 Scale Up
VI -12:27 The Next Step
VII - 13:31 Citations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkQeiRJjJs&feature=plcp
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If you like, you can just watch the mechanism portion (6 minutes). The mechanism has been broken down into 6 steps:
I. 0:10 -- Electrons are emitted, fall to rings
II. 0:45 -- Electrons caught by rings
III. 0:56 -- Electrons trapped by rings
IV. 2:12 -- Cloud of electrons trapped
V. 3:17 -- Deuterium puffed in, ionizes
VI. 4:11 -- Ions fall towards cloud, hit, fuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1V8BjcEm-o
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