[jowabea]

I like the web site. The headline grates on my grammatical sense of matched tenses. Can’t it be “What If Tomorrow Is Different?”

Edit:
I really didn’t emphasize how much I like the website. It is a great short essay for generating excitement.

[jowabea]

If the plasmoid is small enough, and perfectly located at the center of the chamber, wouldn’t all of the X-rays and neutrons have essentially the same point of origin, and a spherical chamber would guarantee pretty much a 90 degree exit angle?

What am I missing?

[jowabea]

I read a few sections of the site. It looks interesting, and they’re certainly optomistic that they can get costs way below NASA expenses. They are attempting to coordinate all the different uses that they possibly can into a single launch. They start with Space Tourism and Solar Satellite launch. Then they convert their external fuel tanks into orbiting lab space and lease that out to reasearch groups.

They are super-optomistic that long term they can do everything with these satellites. They believe they can use Solar energy through either solar cells or solar reflectors to generate electricity, prevent or redirect hurricanes to prevent property damage, evaporate ocean water to create rain for agriculture and fire fighting, and warm entire cities to reduce heating and winter street plowing costs.

They seem to be quite convinced that the science and technology for all of that is proven and available.

Obviously initial financing is the elephant in the room, which they think they can conquer by first convincing the Insurance and Energy corporations to fund them, and then they believe they can get bank loans after they start getting leases for lab space signed.

I’m not at all optomistic that they’re having any where near the level of success they were hoping for since I can’t find any evidence that their web site has been updated in the last 2.5 to 3 years.

[jowabea]

I didn’t say stupid, only ignorant. And given how simple the answer is, I feel it was accurate, even if unnecessary.

So that makes me wonder, is there any difference in fusion reactions involving atoms in existing molecular bonds, versus D+D or D+T type reactons? Do the decaborane molecular bonds fall apart once the ultra-high temperature plasmoid is formed?

[jowabea]

This is going to be a bit of an ignorant question, and somewhat behind the flow of the thread. But, at the temperatures discussed, can someone help me understand what temperature and pressure the fuel chamber will requre to maintain gaseus Boron, given that wikipedia reports the boiling point at over 3900C?

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