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October 18, 2012 at 2:59 am in reply to: CNBC Business Wire features Lawrenceville Plasma Physics #12320
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ParticipantZara, staying on topic with your posts would be much appreciated!
October 6, 2012 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Lowering contact resistance between vacu-brazed copper and tungsten #12296ParticipantHere are a few websites I’ve come across on the subject.
CMW
scroll down to the section on Elkonite copper tungsten welding electrodes
Also see their pdfs on machining and brazingPlansee
Component fabricationMarketech
A longer term solution?Perhaps just cleaning with solvents isn’t enough, oxidation needs to be removed through etching or polishing the parts to be joined?
ParticipantPhysOrg.com posted the Chandra discovery of a huge halo around the Milky Way, challenges “dark matter” theories. The halo is described as baryonic “hot gas” (plasma).
ParticipantPatientman wrote: You have to understand there are still 30 million people unemployed and underemployed. Time is of the essence in surviving these times we find ourselves in.
I can definitely relate to this.
Yes, a grass roots approach is a nice starting place for creating awareness; the internet provides a noisy communication vehicle, but your competition has television and radio tools, and billions of dollars.
We aren’t the first to begin a peace initiative. There’s been a long history over the years beginning with the disarmament movement which has received the attention of mainstream media at different times. Getting their attention has to start from somewhere though and with this issue it will need to start from local communities forcing it to be a priority.
ParticipantThere are actually two videos to view:
“This simulation of a current filament in a plasma focus fusion device shows the outward motion of a shock wave (black density line) and its reflection back from a neighboring filament, disrupting it before magnetic fields could pinch it to high density.”
“This simulation of a current filament in a plasma focus fusion device shows the outward motion of a shock wave (black density line) and its reflection back from a neighboring filament. Because of the greater spacing to the neighbor, there is enough time for magnetic fields to pinch it to high density. But that process will be visible only in upcoming 2-D simulations that show the motion of the filament. Stay tuned! ”
(Simulations generated by Focus Fusion Society-LPP team of Dr. Warwick Dumas, Dr. John Guillory and Eric Lerner)
ParticipantThe link to the PDF is fixed now, sorry for the hang up.
Participantopensource wrote: So Lerner,
The above list of reactions creating neutrons and ionizing radiation is exhaustive?
An the second one (11B + p → 11C + n − 2.8 MeV) is the only one you think can’t be avoided?
I’m focusing on the need for shielding, not byproducts that affect maintenance. To me this is a bigger issue affecting my investment in DPF research.
The subject of radiation has been debated many times in the Forum, which you can easily do a search for. The upshot is that with pb11 the DPF is going to be the cleanest burning fusion generator out there and will be producing prodigious amounts of power. All with a very compact footprint. What more do you need? What more do you think is really possible with any other design?
I think your investment dollars would be well rewarded in DPF research.
April 12, 2012 at 6:34 am in reply to: Anyone willing to post a more final version of Delta the randomness figure please… If not I will! #11746ParticipantHow’s about this one Zara???
ParticipantI got a little confused as to what to sign. There are two places to sign (for those who might be wondering). One is at the Fusion For Peace website, where you can also leave comments. The other is the White House petition.
I noticed the entry by Sterling D. Allen from the Free Energy News website signed. I first found out about Focus Fusion through that site. The Focus Fusion description listing could maybe use a little updating, though there is a link to the latest news further down on their page.:)
ParticipantGreat idea, I’m spreading the word…I’m reminded that the Nixon (edit:,Carter) and Reagan administrations conducted exchanges (with the Soviet Union) on fusion technology for peaceful purposes.
ParticipantI came across this Sandia Lab MagLIF presentation on Sandia’s website, which illustrates the magnetic field design. Perhaps the control over the magnetic field and associated maths could be of some use in the future?
“Whatever the difficulties,” said Sandia manager Daniel Sinars, “we still want to find the answer to what Slutz (and co-author Roger Vesey) propose: Can magnetically driven inertial fusion work? We owe it to the country to understand how realistic this possibility is.”
I hope this quote doesn’t lead to another boondoggle of the NIF or Solyndra type….The DOE seems enamored with some projects that show high difficulty to produce…But I agree if they show that fusion net gain can be achieved, at least by simulation or in a lab. One hopes LPP will get there way ahead of them.:-)
ParticipantDerek- yes I could take a look now. I haven’t transferred video files using skype but could give it a try. Or is there an FTP site I could pick up from?
ParticipantI could work on it in Premiere and/or After Effects. I’d pass on the Microsoft and Google ideas. That’s a different approach I’m not too familiar with. Maybe someone else has tried them out?
March 3, 2012 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Publication of 1.8 billion degree confinement set to confirm LPP's fusion lead #11558ParticipantBeing peer reviewed will hopefully move attention away from Rossi (e-cat) and Mills (blacklight)….
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