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to solve the thrust problem with the focus fusion you just need to add some material in front of the ion beam and let the beam heat and then eject the material, it would basically function like a pulse detonation rocket engine with the FF acting as a ignition source. so there would still be a lot of engineering problems but it would be possible for a single stage craft. using a deep cooling precooler and then the ff to ignite and then when it gets too high use some stored fuel as a rocket and then when in space just use the pure ion beam or when you need more thrust revert it back to a rocket. adding in optical and magnetic refrigeration would reduce the weight add simplify the design and be useful at all stages of the vehicles life.

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For greater thrust you could do what has been proposed for the polywell fusion call a quite electron discharge, which act by you dumping something in front of the particle beam and it would in effect blow it out the back of the ship for a lot of thrust, comparable to a rocket but of course the isp for what ever you dumping out wouldn’t be much better then a rocket.

since space is filled with junk it wouldn’t be to hard to slow down in the asteroid belt, near a passing comet, or whatever and mine it a bit for the afterburner mix. this is basically the idea in a lot of since fiction books, 2001 a space odyssey just to name one.

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the power of a polywell is related by its size and or magnetic field. the power of a polywell is supposed to be the fifth power of the radius and the forth power of the magnetic field.

the operating conditions for the 100mw power plant are currently thought to be 1.5meters and .1 tesla magnetic field. with Magnifye 17 tesla super conducting magnets that could really improve matters.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/magnifye-powerful-17-tesla.html

and here is some news about other fusion attempts
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/05/nuclear-fusion-and-new-nuclear-fission.html
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10002897/ten-serious-nuclear-fusion-projects-making-progress-around-the-world/

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I think that its suppose to be a high frequency gravity wave generator, using electrons in a asymmetrical orbit between two dielectric materials and making use of the acceleration to alter the mass of the electrons(slight but enough).

any mass moving in an asymmetrical orbit will create a gravity wave in theory at least since this is still unconfirmed.

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from what i have been able to understand about the woodward effect it works by creating mass fluctuation when they are accelerated. So if you design it properly you could get it so that when you supply power to the device you would get it to have more mass in one direction so thrust in one direction.

“Abstract. Owing to the variation in the results of several experiments designed to produce thrust with devices employing Mach effects, it was decided to design an experiment with the simple purpose of determining whether or not Mach effects actually exist, and if they can be produced when the “bulk” acceleration and internal energy changes required to produce them are separately supplied. In the experiment arrays of eight 500 pf high voltage capacitors are mounted on the end of a rotor and spun to and from speeds of about 60 Hz (3600 rpm) while they are excited with a 40 KHz voltage signal with amplitudes up to 6 KV. The capacitors are sandwiched between two accelerometers and any Mach effect mass fluctuation is detected as a weight fluctuation that produces signals in the accelerometers that are antiphase. Those signals are subtracted with a differential instrumentation amplifier that suppresses other signals as common mode noise. Signals with the properties sought have been found and recorded with video equipment. They suggest that Mach effects are real, and that the bulk accelerations and internal energy changes that produce them can in fact be separately supplied. “http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/02/mach-effect-propulsion-iec-fusion-for.html

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The article says that the Ti/Te ratio needs to be about 20 while the google video says that its 55/200 KeV which is way off and it says that the confinement time needs to be improved so i was wondering if the what the new result are and if they are good enough.

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Well for large power plants Gigawatt or more
1. Bussard polywell
2. Crossfire which is a different version of a polywell
http://www.crossfirefusor.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor/overview.html
3. tokamak and similar
4. laser compression
https://lasers.llnl.gov/

medium power plants megawatts
1. focus fusion
then nuclear
1. traveling wave
2. beta voltaic
3. Hyperion
4. thorium

small kilowatts or less
1. cold fusion
2. bubble fusion
3. pyroelectric

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power

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