Reply To: The North Atlantic Current

[Henning]

Yes I think it should be possible to add an extra section of Focus Fusion (in capitals) into the Eric Lerner article, just before the book review. But by all means it has to be checked by Aaron, and redefined here a few times. He has more experience dealing with Wikipedia bureaucrats. Also one picture like one of the following should be included (maybe take another one of the fully assembled device):

https://focusfusion.org/index.php/gallery/image_med/75/
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/gallery/image_med/81/
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/gallery/image_med/79/

Something along these lines:

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Focus Fusion

As an ongoing experiment Lerner currently conducts research with a Dense Plasma Focus (-> Link to DPF) built at his company Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, which shall reproduce and surpass the conditions allegedly achieved in experiments conducted at Texas A&M University (-> Link to Texas A&M University) by him and others, with which he tries to accomplish fusion of p11B (-> Link to Aneutronic Fusion).

The DPF is constructed with the following characteristics:
Peak-Voltage: 45kV
Peak-Current: 4MA
Inductance: ???mH

On 2009-10-15 the device pinched the first time with 20kV and a peak current of about 0.9MA on the second shot using helium as fuel. (citing https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/lpps_newly_assembled_dpf_achieves_first_shots_and_pinch/ )

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That first section only includes the claim (the rationale), and the rest is pure facts. Additionally the fact section needs to be more spread out, but not too long, before anyone cries out: “Unrelevant! Let’s do more Electric Universe bashing.”

Bussard’s Polywell also has a lengthy article of its own. The rationale goes something along this (in the talk-page of the Polywell article): Dr. Bussard was a well known and respected fusion scientist, therefore we have to include his not commonly supported fusion device.

And the rationale about Focus Fusion seems to be like this: Eric Lerner is a commonly known crook who supports an Electric Universe and questions the Big Bang. So we do not include any scientific work, and just hack about the book he’s published.