Reply To: Proliferation?

[belbear]

While “baby” was built, things went very fast and open-sourced. This whole worldwide community was allowed to know how it works and looks like, in itself a remarkable openness in comparison to other small-scale fusion projects. Some call this an overhyped website, but I really like it. Gives me “room for thought”

Now the experiment starts taking data I presume Eric wants to keep the lid on releases because now it’s really getting serious.

The really important data, the one that shows that p-B11 break-even has occured or not, will have to be peer-reviewed before release anyway, to avoid a possible “Pons-Fleishman-disaster”. Important intermediate breakthroughs, such as confirmation of the “Lerner magnetic field effect” on electrons, will also need such a review process.

It would be real trouble if LPP first cried victory on CNN worldwide, only to find out that a fundamental mistake was made and break-even is still a long way to go or outright impossible with the available hardware.

We humans may theorize and tinker, but the physics is there since the big bang (or NOT??) and it won’t comply to our wishes.

After all, we do have some time: ITER isn’t due before 2018… 😉

However, as anyone in here, I do hope to see some intermediate results published, such as first D-D neutrons and first p-B11 fusion.