Nuclear Fusion - NOT Fission

jowey · 12-02-2007, 01:46 PM

Geez, researching this post I just found out that Dr. Bussard died in October.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/...as-passed.html
He got funding from the Navy again in August 2007 cool
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/...or-funded.html

He made an excellent presentation to Google November 2006, they made it available again.

Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear...

http://www.strout.net/info/science/polywell/
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/

jowey · 12-02-2007, 03:28 PM

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/ne...-passing-away/

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Through the grief of those closest to Dr Bussard some details are coming out. Dr. Bussard was a cancer victim of two kinds who was in the last weeks enduring radiation and chemotherapy for the disease.

Reports are he worked continuously while in treatment and assembled a good team to continue the research and development of the IEC fusion method he has been developing from funding provided by the US Department of Defense.

When funding for the research resumed Dr. Bussard attracted a friend who is a PhD plasma physicist recently working at Los Alamos and a PhD whose experience is in experimentation. Some staff from the previous lab in San Diego are on their way to join the team.

Dr. Bussard’s friends assert that he did everything he could to ensure that the work on IEC fusion will continue.

This morning M. Simon at Power and Control Blogspot posted an excellent eulogy that contains a brief list of some of Dr, Bussard’s most noteworthy work and a strong link list. See:

http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/...as-passed.html

jowey · 12-05-2007, 03:48 PM

I find the lack of interest in "Fusion" in this forum rather interesting. Here is a power source that will not run out, is relatively safe and if Polywell is successful could be set down beside the current power plants and changed over.

Again it seems like the government is the only one interested in this power source for their submarines and the government will do the R&D.

I think it would be so ironic if someplace like China was successful in achieving energy independence, just because they are hungry.....

Of course I would prefer to get off the grid....

GuitarWizard · 12-05-2007, 06:33 PM

I find it insisting for a power resource but the waist it produces last to long.I saw this program were thay were constructing the wast depot and it was so far barried into solid rock not to even talk abought the three ply outer casing corrosion proof storage container's and making sure through testing it would pass the elements test like earth quakes and I'm afraid at one point we may just run out of mountains to store the stuff.
And also it is to bad to loose someone like him seems like a fine man and passionate abought his work.

What do you think ?

GuitarWizard · 12-05-2007, 07:32 PM

Big label on the thread that some how I over looked Hahaha...

But still would like to know your thought's and is there no radioactive product left as a result of this process ?

The_Heretic · 12-05-2007, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jowey

I find the lack of interest in "Fusion" in this forum rather interesting. Here is a power source that will not run out, is relatively safe and if Polywell is successful could be set down beside the current power plants and changed over.

Again it seems like the government is the only one interested in this power source for their submarines and the government will do the R&D.

I think it would be so ironic if someplace like China was successful in achieving energy independence, just because they are hungry.....

Of course I would prefer to get off the grid....

The problem is there's no method that's been shown to be reproducible, puting the original event into doubt.

jowey · 12-06-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Heretic

The problem is there's no method that's been shown to be reproducible, puting the original event into doubt.

They have produced fusion (not the bomb either), so far as I understand it has not been sustainable and/or generating more energy than that put in.

http://www.fusor.net/
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/
http://fire.pppl.gov/

The_Heretic · 12-06-2007, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jowey

They have produced fusion (not the bomb either), so far as I understand it has not been sustainable and/or generating more energy than that put in.

http://www.fusor.net/
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/
http://fire.pppl.gov/

The Los Alimos fusion experiments are problematic not because of the fact fusion is reproducible, but that the process isn't yet practical. It takes them a day or more to reset all the equipment, recahrge the capcitors that run the megawatt rated X-ray lasers [256 in all] and then precisely load their deuterium-tritium sample into the fusion chamber. For that reactor to match a regular nuclear reactor they'd need to generate 80 fusion events a day and yet they can- baely manage one a day.

That's why I think there's got to be an easier way via "cold" fusion.

jowey · 12-07-2007, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Heretic

The Los Alimos fusion experiments are problematic not because of the fact fusion is reproducible, but that the process isn't yet practical. It takes them a day or more to reset all the equipment, recahrge the capcitors that run the megawatt rated X-ray lasers [256 in all] and then precisely load their deuterium-tritium sample into the fusion chamber. For that reactor to match a regular nuclear reactor they'd need to generate 80 fusion events a day and yet they can- baely manage one a day.

That's why I think there's got to be an easier way via "cold" fusion.

Just like the electric car is not practical because of the battery problem. What I found upsetting was that Dr. Bussard was having problems with funding for his process before he passed away.

From what I read his process, guess it is now called the "Polywell", was promising, his last test for the Navy apparently proved the concept sound. The last day of the contract they ran the test and months later, after they evaluated the data the numbers were good - but interest was lagging.

http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/HSblog.php?itemid=2815

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Unfortunately, no "cold" fusion experiments that gave an otherwise unexplainable net release of energy have so far been reproducible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Fusor, Polywell and Tokamak are all close - an engineering problem.

Dr. Zaius · 12-07-2007, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jowey

I find the lack of interest in "Fusion" in this forum rather interesting. Here is a power source that will not run out, is relatively safe and if Polywell is successful could be set down beside the current power plants and changed over.

Again it seems like the government is the only one interested in this power source for their submarines and the government will do the R&D.

I think it would be so ironic if someplace like China was successful in achieving energy independence, just because they are hungry.....

Of course I would prefer to get off the grid....

I doubt it is a true lack of interest, but a lack of understanding. The differences between Fusion and Fission are not really something the general public is aware of.

There have been a number of movies made on the subject. Both comedies and dramas. Yet what the subject is about escapes most people because for years Nuclear fusion was thought to be impossible (and many people still believe this) and therefore was not something taught in school. In recent years there has been a lot more discussion about it because of experiments from different labs. I have to wonder if it is something obtainable in our life time.

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jowey Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 888 Blog Entries: 20 Thanks: 10 Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts	I find the lack of interest in "Fusion" in this forum rather interesting. Here is a power source that will not run out, is relatively safe and if Polywell is successful could be set down beside the current power plants and changed over. Again it seems like the government is the only one interested in this power source for their submarines and the government will do the R&D. I think it would be so ironic if someplace like China was successful in achieving energy independence, just because they are hungry..... Of course I would prefer to get off the grid.... __________________ O homines ad servitutem paratos...Emperor Tiberius A long standing member of the "Moronic Order of Singularity"
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GuitarWizard Even a bolt need's a nut Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 205 My Mood: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I find it insisting for a power resource but the waist it produces last to long.I saw this program were thay were constructing the wast depot and it was so far barried into solid rock not to even talk abought the three ply outer casing corrosion proof storage container's and making sure through testing it would pass the elements test like earth quakes and I'm afraid at one point we may just run out of mountains to store the stuff. And also it is to bad to loose someone like him seems like a fine man and passionate abought his work. What do you think ? Last edited by GuitarWizard; 12-05-2007 at 07:13 PM.
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GuitarWizard Even a bolt need's a nut Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 205 My Mood: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Big label on the thread that some how I over looked Hahaha... But still would like to know your thought's and is there no radioactive product left as a result of this process ?
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