[MTd2]

I didn’t mean minimum rate of attaining milestones, but of getting the minimal funding. By the way, I also mean the contrary, of trying to do things out of its natural schedule to rush things and so making the group look bad to who is investing. Too fast, and not accomplish nothing, jumping milestones. But I guess this fear of mine is gone, because there will be updates soon.

[MTd2]

Well, the point here is not falling bellow minimum…

[MTd2]

Well, with a short funding, shouldn’t all steps be followed closely? It would increase the change of getting more funding to show progress rather than doing everything at the same time and risking losing all…

[MTd2]

Alright:

http://www.physicsessays.com/doc/s2005/Lerner_Transparencies.pdf

It is 1.3GG for boron. A mere 3.6 for the actual record. You guys should had told me that before…

[MTd2]

Also, no mention of milestone 4 and 5, and things seems to get confusing, because generally either projects follow linearly or in parallel. It seems these 2 steps were also ignored and preparations for milestone 6 and 7 is just everything that is being done right now.

[MTd2]

Where are these other simulations? The end of the paper mentions a mathematical method to 3D, but no concrete simulation is mentioned.

EDIT.: Hmm. I had to update this post because you provided links to your claims. But where are the graphs of the simulations?

But why shots made at 2 orders of magnitude lower than 10GG is enough to prove any points at this scale?

[MTd2]

Read the full preprint here:

http://w3.pppl.gov/ppst/docs/welch2010prl.pdf

[MTd2]

“On the other hand, the value of n^2V—the density squared times the volume—was about ten times less than predicted. So these plasmoids are hotter and either less dense or smaller than predicted.”

https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/lpp_presents_at_icops/

This is quite bad news. Very bad news. One less order of magnitude sounds too bad, even if instruments are not precise, it shows that scaling is not so good, and attaining positive net positive output will be much harder, if possible ever.

[MTd2]

So you really have a delay now. What is your output power now?

[MTd2]

So, the dev. Time vs. Energy was just a propanda and not a road map?

[MTd2]

But it’s just 0.1J to 10J out of a target of 300KJ, shouldn’t things like calibration be trivial at such relatively small levels?

Besides, it seems that the target to test Boron fusion would be 30KJ of H-H fusion. But only 0.03% fo that was achieved. Isn’t it a bit too early to start worring about boron? I mean, wouldn’t it be more sensible to wait until 1KJ-5KJ?

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