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[zapkitty]

zapkitty wrote: Apparently Lerner-hakase is going to be on the podcast Space Show.

Hereafter follows my personal, condensed, and intermittently reordered version of what Lerner-hakase talked about on The Space Show. In my next post I’ll discuss the numbers that were tossed out as some of them seem to be… errors?

Warning: The following is extremely zap-centric stream-of-semi-consciousness and may or may not have some hitherto undefined relationship with what Lerner-hakase may or may not have actually said on the program 🙂

(comments in parentheses are all mine and you can’t have them)

What I think Lerner said:

State of fusion: we’ve already had the LPP updates here and nothing new on the other contenders was discussed.

As for toks… lots of ostriches with heads in sand seemingly unaware that in that position their necks are stretched out very far by now.

(With apologies to Brewer and Shipley: “One tok over the line…” )

… will the fusion ban at NASA ever be lifted?

When pB&j tests start LPP won’t do much talking until iron-clad proof of boron fusion is secured.

LPP Team forgoes “breakeven” phraseology for “scientific feasibility”. That term will mean that they’ve proven that they can generate sufficient excess power to power a generator when generators are ready. Actual generator engineering will be the next step after feasibility is proven.

LPP patents will protect investors but will not enable an LPP fusion monopoly… but the investors should do well.

(very well I’d think)

Callers to the show asked about FF space applications, is FF a Polywell, why pB&j and not D+D…

Space applications:

minimum pulse rate? cooling boron might plate out between pulses?

(would be bad as plated boron wouldn’t easily be removed short of an overhaul – what’s the fuel pre-heater wattage?)

FF best as in-space drive but could power a MHD launcher w/ fuel only 1/10th mass of payload,

Talked about FF as better for robotic missions without mention of electrode core changeout…

(that would mean a disposable stage or a tug that returns for reuse…. … or multiple staged cores? contact mad scientist central 8) )

Talked about FF as power supply for bases, Mars base talk.

(what about in situ reforming of electrodes?)