Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Rezwan]

Hi Folks,

I contacted the Committee on Science and Technology (CS&T;) – the organization that was tasked with managing the ARPA-E grants. I was following up on why we didn’t get the opportunity to apply for a grant. Aside from the great number of applicants, I wanted to see if they had any particular issues with aneutronic fusion. It does appear that they hold Aneutronic fusion in low regard. In even lower regard is the PolyWell. Adam Rosenberg, on the professional staff of the CS&T;and former DOE Office of Science Program Manager had this to say about it:

2) A spherically symmetric magnetic field is impossible under the laws of physics as we know them, and so Bussard’s PolyWell is essentially based on hokum.

As I am not familiar with spherical symmetric magnetic field requirements – I’ll put this here for to you to discuss.