Thank you, sir. If I only had videosift to go on I would have expected @Crake to look like a mix of this and this striking at the world from his Polywell-driven fortress, growing little crakers much better than regular people.
>> ^dag:

Nice playing. @Crake looks just as I imagined.

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yeah, even a very high-strung fusion configuration such as a Tokamak wouldn't do much if it went out of control... iirc, the plasma inside a flourescent light is ~45.000 degrees C, but the density is so low that it can be contained in a thin glass tube with no problems.

Also, it's only a couple of months until we get the polywell "WB-8" report, at which point they will hopefully get a lot more funding and achieve breakeven before everyone else .

WTF! Between this and the Polywell fusion reactor...
Apparently we've had the technology to solve our clean energy needs for half a century but they were abandoned and nearly lost because they didn't serve the right masters.

If Liquid flouride thorium reactors don't produce byproducts that can be weaponized then this should be developed as the standard for devloping nations everwhere in the world. This would prevent international concerns like we're experiencing with Iran's nucleur program right now since the technology of liquid flouride thorium fusion apparently does not share any similarities with the process of refining Uranium for weapons.

Good news everybody:
"In September 2009, the US Department of Defense announced further funding of $7,855,504 for Energy Matter Conversion Corp for research, analysis, development, and testing in support of the Plan Plasma Fusion (Polywell) Project. Efforts under this Recovery Act award will validate the basic physics of the Plasma Fusion (Polywell) concept, as well as provide the Navy with data for potential applications of polywell fusion. The project is expected to be completed by April 2011."

^There's another project, The Polywell reactor, which skips the heat engine part and outputs high voltage DC power directly from the fusion process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

This appears to be the best wikipedia page on the subject.

From the other posting:
If anyone wants to follow more on this the main forum is here.

The current state of the research is that the navy funded a research team headed by Dr. Nebel from LANL and his team has completed(around August) experiments intended to confirm Dr. Bussard's findings. The Navy is currently evaluating those findings to decide if they will continue to research this approach. Dr. Nebel has had to remain tight lipped about what they're results have been but it sounds promising that the Navy will pursue for at least one more step, but that still has not been decided.

This was merged with this post, some more comments over there:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Better-Than-Regular-Fusion-the-Polywell-Fusor

Tags for this video have been changed from 'clean, cheap, nuclear power' to 'clean, cheap, nuclear power, fusion, Robert, Bussard, Polywell, fusor' - edited by cybrbeast

>> ^TwiggyJack:
This isn't going to be like the Large Hadron Collider is it? where everyone thinks it will end the world in a heartbeat?


Fusion has quite predictable outcomes, and apocalyptic events are not among them.

>> ^fissionchips:
dupeof: http://www.videosift.com/video/Should-Google-Go-Nuclear
I've never used the dupeof command -- it transfers votes, but what about the comments?

I can't use it either with my star level, I think. Don't know about the comments.
But that really is a horribly tagged video, the tags don't even mention Bussard or Polywell.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
The problem with this system is that it takes 1.2 units of energy to produce 1 unit of energy. In other words you have to put more energy into the system to power it than you actually get out the far end.
Of course Bussard was of a different opinion but it's worth noting that his is a minority opinion among physicists and it's likely that he was simply wrong.


Care to show some evidence to back that claim up ?

If anyone wants to follow more on this the main forum is here.

The current state of the research is that the navy funded a research team headed by Dr. Nebel from LANL and his team has completed experiments intended to confirm Dr. Bussard's findings. The Navy is currently evaluating those findings to decide if they will continue to research this approach. Dr. Nebel has had to remain tight lipped about what they're results have been but it sounds promising that the Navy will pursue for at least one more step, but that still has not been decided.

When they let their seeecret stuff get so old, it should be ok to talk about it.
I'm still waiting for my Polywell fusion reactor, too.