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Definition: The Heineken Uncertainty Principle – after 4 beers you cannot be certain of anything.

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Two atoms were walking down the sidewalk when one slipped an fell.
“Oh my,” said the atom. “I have lost an electron.”
“Are you sure?” his companion asked.
The atom replied, “I’m positive.”

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Didn’t Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly already demostrate 1.2 Gigawatts?

Younger Dr. Emmett Brown: [running out of the room] 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!

Marty McFly: [following] What-what the hell is a gigawatt?

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In south Florida – Power stations dump excess heat into lakes and rivers. In one case,
the Manatee have identified the outlet feed and have adopted it as a Sea Cow Spa.

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Bussard’s Polywell Fusion Passes a Major Test

Jaeyoung Park and the team at Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2) have released a research paper (with videos) discussing the results from a scaled down version of the late Dr. Robert Bussard’s famous wiffleball method of seeking a viable net energy fusion reactor.

The earlier wiffleballs leaked so much that the reactor couldn’t ever get to producing more power out than went in. But Dr. Bussard’s results encouraged many to offer that with enough energy and pressure against the magnetic field a sharp boundary would form between the magnetic fields and the plasma – so cutting the losses. What the paper reports is validation of the boundary forming, which shows critical progress toward a polywell fusion reactor.

– See more at: http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2014/06/10/bussards-polywell-fusion-passes-a-major-test/#sthash.7ju8eqbw.dpuf

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It was good to see the report. I was particularly impressed that LPPX is offering a complete copy of their experimental results.

I understand that the current plasma is being ‘poisoned’ by small amounts of copper and silver. But – won’t the tungston cathode contribute tungston impurities to the plasma?

I will be happy to contribute to a crowd funding process. I have said to several friends that if I won the Lottery – I would send a great big check to LPPX. Sans Lottery – I can still send a little one!

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Yes. I should have put it under a different thread.

Thanks.

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Sounds like this might be the Carlo Rossi of Fusion Energy.

I think this is Pie in the Sky talk. Not a real on-going SkunkWorks project.

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I don’t much care for the Iranians. But – if their particiapation helps bring FoFu to a reality,
that can’t be all bad. And, it would undermine their current nuclear program.

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I think that first slide is actually a flux capacitor.

Seriously, if Suppes can figure out how to trap the electrons in his polywell that is terrific.
I can only imagine what the scientists with the big ticket fusion programs will say if someone
working on a shoestring beats them like a drum.

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How in heck are they going to create a heat exchanger that will efficiently
pull from a fusor like that and run a turbine? Just producing heat alone is
of no real value if you cannot use that heat to create electricity.

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They are still debating whether the Sandia Z machine ever actually got to that temperature. And, I am sure that there
will be those who are skeptical of FF’s achievement.

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I am okay with your switching the post. The more people who see it the merrier.

A LOT (and I mean a lot) of really smart people thought LPP would NEVER come close
to this achievement. God Speed to the whole team. The development of practical
aneutronic fusion would be a boon for all mankind.

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Two atoms were walking down the sidewalk, when one tripped.

“Oops. I’ve lost an electron,” said the atom.

“Are you sure,” asked his companion.

“I’m positive,” replied the first.

(Happy New Year everybody!)

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Sometimes we forget that 1/2 of the people on the planet heat and cook with
wood or dung. Cheap fusion would mean real hope for them.

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