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November 25, 2011 at 12:19 am #11096
zapkitty
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vansig wrote:

Before he died in 2007, Robert Bussard claimed that given 6 years and up to $200 million he and his team could build the world’s first real net-power clean fusion system electric power plant.

Is this true today of the ECM2 team or any other team? If not, what is the best guess?

as far as i know, scaling parameters for polywell have not changed

LPP said they think that it’ll take about 5 years to get a generator after feasibility is demonstrated… and that test is hoped to happen early 2012.

And I think I recall Lerner-hakase saying that the generator development should cost about $25-30 million.

Now can anyone figure out if Tri-alpha is just flirting with neutronic fusion om the way to aneutronic… or have they simply given up on getting to aneutronic with their device?