Reply To: Barack Obama on Energy
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AeronautQuantumG wrote: Ok, here’s another one by the same authors, obviously they cleaned it up for public release:
http://quantumg.net/advancements_in_dense_plasma_focus_for_space_propulsion.pdf
It includes pretty pictures. The conclusions are similar, but only the “not wildly optimistic” results are presented 🙂
Eric estimated 2 ton mass (I’m pretty sure it was unshielded) in his Google talk video. A 360 degree water jacket 1 meter thick is the single largest and heaviest component. But I’m sure you can pretty much eliminate the shielding mass if the reactor’s on the end of a 100 foot long boom. Could be tough getting a net reduction of mass…
Eric’s first 2 experiments were funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The incoming Bush Administration defunded the program that JPL was using to fund FF.