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Participantasymmertic_implosion – 08 November 2011 09:02 AM
I agree that no issue I mentioned is insurmountable, but it takes time, money and most importantly, data. Data on fusion systems with gain is in short supply at the moment.I presume you’ve reviewed the monthly reports from LPP, found on the same page I directed you to before, or on their website. The reports over the years have shown the difficulties that are being faced as well as the progress made along the way. There is an array of diagnostic tools being employed to quantify and qualify the results. All this takes time, money and expertise to enable. The funding of the research is vital to keep receiving the data to help guide the way toward future improvements. It’s not only hard data that drives the future, it’s also our ability to make the project known and appreciated. This is a task that can be taken on by those of us with no technical background as well as from the scientific community.
There have been many efforts described in these blogs, a lot of input with creative ideas from marketing to legislative to technical. This needs to continue for the ongoing quest for funding as well as convincing the public that this is a different animal from the mainstream power sources, which even has the possibility of uses beyond power generation, such as space exploration or diagnostic tools for metal fabrication and even homeland security. The efforts by the community of bloggers on this site isn’t over zealous and has paid off with increased funding, which has brought us more positive data. You have to start from somewhere. The beauty of the DPF concept is it’s relative simplicity compared to other designs. If it can be made to produce net energy in something close to it’s current form, it would be much easier to commercialize and to persuade regulators to accept than some of the other concepts. Perhaps it will require some other features as yet undiscovered to work, but we need to keep trying out ideas. It could something simple like employing sound waves, radio waves, microwaves or a sprinkling of boron nano particles (pixie dust!) to seed the plasmoid. But keeping it simple and attainable is an asset. These are just ideas from a non-technical person, who knows what you people from advanced scientific backgrounds can think up? Bring it on, make it work and then make it happen! In any case the world needs fusion…
November 7, 2011 at 3:47 am in reply to: optimal geometry of rods to produce desired plasmoids? #10982ParticipantIf you navigate to the home page you’ll find the heading “The LPP Experiment“. At the left sidebar of that page, you’ll see a box (LPP Links) that has links to their technical papers and also check out the Google Tech Talks video.
ParticipantThat’s excellent Dennisp, really interesting approach to the carbon issue. Glad to see you’re getting the word out there, good luck!
ParticipantMore options (if needed), color and BW…
ParticipantIt’s great copy you’re coming up with Zapkitty. I swapped out the burst graphic with the one that’s more generic. I personally think aneutronic is an excellent goal and works well as an alternative energy concept. But as you say any kind of fusion is probably way better than what we’ve got (fission power). Maybe there should be two types of fliers with these issues in mind. The graphics/text/format can be changed if there are other suggestions…I’m attaching another version with a more conventional layout.
ParticipantHere’s a version attached….When the flier is finalized I would send copies to the car magazines and Autoblog website. Even though they mostly promote muscle cars and exotic cars, they occasionally highlight developments with alternatives. Green Car Congress is another website that might take notice…
ParticipantThat’s great news. A very large increase in scaling… Thanks for the progress report!
ParticipantBrian H – 10 October 2011 02:01 AM
Coming next yr, the RAV4-EV from Toyota, powered by TeslaMotors. Then the Model X cross-over from Tesla in 2013. The former with ~100 mi range, the latter with up to 300.I’m with Brian….spend some time at the Tesla booth….Elon Musk, with his Musk Foundation, is someone who should want to be supportive of Focus Fusion.
ParticipantAahh, epiphany…thanks for the links Francisl…I believe lesson #60 from the Khan Academy nails it: Calculating R-Squared. Correct me if I’m wrong…The only problem is I’ve had to start at lesson one and I have quite a few more to go, but they’re jogging my memory of past studies of statistics. It’s for real world application too. Now I know to write R^2 properly!!!
ParticipantI’m wondering if someone could explain the numbers on the chart to those of us who are math challenged??? I’m not sure what R2 is referring to. The spike voltage to the 2.73 power makes some sense but I’m lost with the rest. I’ve looked back at basic math primers, I’m still scratching my head.
ParticipantLet’s hope it’s the start of a trend! Corporations and financial groups are sitting on “billions and billions” too…Maybe they will be encouraged by this program to follow up with investments in new energy research, such as with Focus Fusion.
ParticipantI’ve updated the images and will post them to Basecamp…
ParticipantParticipantOne has to wonder how the Earth’s global magnetic field influences the pattern of these streams. The plasmoid shows patterns of the filaments as well. It will be interesting to see more shots from the ICCD camera to see how repeatable the pattern behavior is and if necessary to try to “tune” or influence the filaments for better performance. I’m attaching a shot of a plasmoid that I’ve contrast enhanced. If you look at it for a while you can make out the helical nature of the filaments swirling around and looping, I believe. Are the filaments organized by the magnetic field, arcing like solar flares, rising and falling from and to the center?
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