Reply To: X-Rays from Focus Fusion

[Aeronaut]

Henning wrote: 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).

So that explains the bias. I respect Art’s expertise as defined by his license, and honest skepticism is to be encouraged. One way I see that is when somebody asks “Why” and “How would” types of questions- that indicates an attempt to understand new concepts.

But honest skepticism and petty finger pointing are entirely different. That’s why I looked up the Polywell article today. Because any fusion technology with a decent chance is going to be described favorably in Wiki or any objective media.