Art Carlson is mainly following the “Ryder Argument” (somebody called Ryder did a rather highly valued Ph.D. thesis about the feasibility of fusion attempts, which Art happened to proof-read). That argument mainly says, only tokamaks work. So he was sceptical to polywell too, just that Dr. Bussard was a much more renowned figure than Eric Lerner. Now after some time he supports the polywell effort, but also that took some time.
And he even buys Eric’s argument about the magnetic field effect.
I value his opinions rather high, although I’m not sharing all them regarding focus fusion. He is a sceptic, and that’s good.
And he lives in Munich. Maybe it’s time for a beer (I hate beer).
