Talk-Polywell.org

I had no idea that the number of members on this forum is so high... this poll is to find out how you first heard about this nuclear fusion approach.

With my vote it is unanimous - the video.

It was nice to go back to check my Polywell link folder to remember how I got knowledge of it.

It was around in start of 2006 thank to a Hirsch-Farnsworth fusor search that I reached the 5th US-Japan IEC Workshop:
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iecworkshop/PD ... ski_US.pdf

I knew Bussard for his Ramjet work, so I started googling to get more info, and after a couple of days I remember that my first thought was: "this makes sense..."

Anyhow, a small trivia, as many might not know.
Guess who is the guy at page 6 of that PDF

OK now I need another vote.

I saw the video on a blog.

I was a lurker on the forums at fusor.net.

I got here in a really roundabout way.

My friends dad did some consulting work for ITER, and brought me back a CD they give folks explaining the concept. Kind of like a demo/business card.

I started googling terminology from the CD and found Dr. Bussards google tech talk, and watched it a few times (mostly in installments. Trying to define he terminology based on sentence context every other sentence gave me a headache). So I had to google more terminology from the video and found iecfusiontech.blogspot.com, read that for a few weeks before finding a link to talk-polywell.

I can't vote cuz you don't have what I suspect will be the biggest answer, Tom Ligon's article in Analog magazine.

I was googling for fusion research and came across Joe Strout's webpage The "Polywell" Approach to Fusion.

The phrase "Should Google go nuclear?" got my attention from some list of links on some unrelated page I don't recall. The bit about funding Polywell (IIRC the full 200M$) being Google's yearly electricity bill was especially interesting.

Cosmic Log

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A magazine cover that showed the empire state building getting bombed.