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complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the basics and the best part we will know in two years h t rschaffer8 at talk polywell posted by m simon at 12 04 2009 05 21 00 pm no comments labels alan boyle rick nebel tuesday december 1 2009 iter back to the drawing board the iter fusion test reactor project is getting a schedule review pdf because the project is seriously out of whack the scientific and engineering team building the iter fusion reactor failed to win an expected endorsement from the project s governing council last week the council which represents the seven international partners in the project china the european union india japan south korea russia and the united states sent the team back to do more work on the proposed construction schedule for the mammoth undertaking so what is being done to fix this mismatch between means and ends iter staff have been racing for months to get the final project baseline documents which describe the design cost estimates and planned schedule ready for the 18 19 november council meeting at cadarache science 13 november p 932 but some council members voiced concern that the schedule which aimed to start the reactor by 2018 was not realistic and that there was too high a risk that some part of the immensely complicated effort could go wrong a slip in the schedule would invariably mean increased costs and the council is already concerned about budget estimates which sources say may have doubled from 5 billion since the partners signed up in 2006 so the council told iter staff to nail down more firmly the risks both technical and organizational involved in the schedule and come back in february with earliest and latest possible start up dates and they are not even going to discuss costs until they get a schedule estimate good i wonder if the fact that focus fusion and tri alpha energy and general fusion and other groups promise results much sooner at much lower costs also has something to do with the reevaluation of course you all know my favorite the polywell fusion reactor you can learn the basics of fusion energy by reading principles of fusion energy an introduction to fusion energy for students of science and engineering polywell is a little more complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the basics and the best part we will know in two years here is a good page to keep up with iter news i love what it says at the top of the page 18 years until 1st q 10 dt pulse 400s long at 500mw on iter plasma physicist and author of principles of plasma physics dr nicholas krall said we spent 15 billion dollars studying tokamaks and what we learned about them is that they are no damn good posted by m simon at 12 01 2009 05 03 00 pm no comments labels iter saturday november 28 2009 tom ligon on space show tom ligon is going to be on the space show this sunday from 12 to 1 30 pdt you can call in or listen information at the link update 29 nov 2009 2020z i had my dates mixed up tom will be on the space show for tuesday evening december 22 7 8 30 pm california time there is a good chance i will be on the show as well posted by m simon at 11 28 2009 12 33 00 pm no comments labels education sunday november 22 2009 designing computer chips my latest article at ecn discusses how to design computers in the context of forth chips posted by m simon at 11 22 2009 07 08 00 am no comments labels forth friday november 20 2009 first fusion prometheus fusion has announced his first fusion neutron drop by and give him an atta boy h t talk polywell posted by m simon at 11 20 2009 04 21 00 am no comments labels experiments fusor construction sunday october 25 2009 the dod looks at energy security the gentlemen and gentlewomen at talk polywell have come across a couple of major finds the first is a discussion of american energy security and its military implications energy national security an exploration of threats solutions and alternative futures pdf abstract findings of multiple department of defense dod studies and other sources indicate that the united states faces a cluster of significant security threats caused by how the country obtains distributes and uses energy this paper explores the nature and magnitude of the security threats as related to energy some potential solutions which include technical political and programmatic options and some alternative futures the nation may face depending upon various choices of actions and assumptions specific emerging options addressed include polywell fusion renewable fuel from waste and algae cultivation all electric vehicle fleets highly efficient heat engines and special military energy considerations interesting to say the least that polywell gets a mention in the very beginning of the paper we have come a long way since the polywell program was nearly permanently shut down in 2006 the second paper is about funding for various quick reaction pdf programs by the dod the interesting bits are on page 11 of the document look at just how small the effort was in fiscal year 2008 emc2 ief boron fusion the objective of this project is to continue research towards a proven validated and reviewed and approved final design basis for engineering development and construction of full scale clean nuclear power plants boron hydrogen reactions are radiation free and non hazardous and well suited to direct electric power applications to navy propulsion as well as to modest scale ground power plants systems able to be run without fossil fuels such power plants would revolutionize dod power systems applications and requirements fy 2008 accomplishments this project continued research towards a proven validated and reviewed and approved final design basis for engineering development and construction of full scale clean nuclear power plants payoff would be elimination of the need for fossil fueled plants boron hydrogen reactions are radiation free and non hazardous and well suited to direct electric power applications to navy propulsion as well as to modest scale ground power plants systems able to be run without fossil fuels such power plants would revolutionize dod power systems applications and requirements things are picking up speed in the polywell research you can find out more about the latest funding for polywell at wb 8 contract details and at wb 8 contract progress you can learn the basics of fusion energy by reading principles of fusion energy an introduction to fusion energy for students of science and engineering polywell is a little more complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the basics posted by m simon at 10 25 2009 01 59 00 pm 7 comments labels polywell wb 8 thursday october 22 2009 mach einstein drive i have a new article up at ecn magazine on experiments testing out the possibilities of a mach einstein drive i call it maching einstein why is this important if the experiments work and even if they don t we will learn more about how our universe is constructed if they do work we can get propulsion without having to build huge rockets earth to mars travel in a few days would be a definite possibility if it works really really well faster than light speed travel is a definite possibility posted by m simon at 10 22 2009 09 55 00 am 10 comments labels physics tuesday october 6 2009 a new look at pid loops my latest at ecn magazine posted by m simon at 10 06 2009 03 41 00 am 4 comments labels pid loop sunday october 4 2009 wb 8 contract progress the us navy has just published a justification and award for emc2 s polywell fusion reactor experiment the highlights the award is for 10 million wb 8 0 report to be delivered 30 march 2010 wb 8 1 report to be delivered 30 march 2012 the wb 8 1 effort is contingent on success with wb 8 0 experiments what does all this mean it is possible that there has been much more progress than was expected you can read about the expected progress at we will know in two years that was published in may of 2009 the minimum time expected for results when that was published was 18 months which would have been november of 2010 actual time from the prediction to the end of the wb 8 0 contract is 10 months of course this is speculative it may be that we won t know until march of 2012 which would make the actual time line almost three years and not two you can read some of my previous posts on the wb 8 contract at polywell gets the dough the boys at talk polywell have struck paydirt wb 8 in the works and if you are not familiar with fusion in general or polywell in particular may i suggest principles of fusion energy an introduction to fusion energy for students of science and engineering polywell is a little more complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the polywell basics posted by m simon at 10 04 2009 12 59 00 pm 3 comments labels wb 8 tuesday september 22 2009 major electronics magazine covers polywell ecn magazine has an article up on polywell and other small fusion efforts you will never guess who the author is heh posted by m simon at 9 22 2009 12 08 00 am 5 comments labels polywell saturday september 12 2009 polywell gets the dough emc2 has gotten almost eight million dollars to do further experimentation on the polywell fusion concept energy matter conversion corp emc2 santa fe n m is being awarded a 7 855 504 cost plus fixed fee contract for research analysis development and testing in support of the plan plasma fusion polywell project efforts under this recovery act award will validate the basic physics of the plasma fusion polywell concept as well as provide the navy with data for potential applications of polywell fusion work will be performed in santa fe n m and is expected to be completed in april 2011 contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year this contract was not competitively procured pursuant to far 6 302 1 the naval air warfare center weapons division china lake calif is the contracting activity n68936 09 c 0125 i think this is the award based on the solicitation discussed here and here and here evidently the 2 million promised in may was just a place holder and the actual funds are significantly greater this means that the work on wb 8 and the engineering for wb 9 will go forward with the next milestone in april of 2011 which is in accord with rick nebel s promise that we will know in two years if you would like to keep these reports coming visit five years of blogging and do what you can you can learn the basics of fusion energy by reading principles of fusion energy an introduction to fusion energy for students of science and engineering polywell is a little more complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the basics h t marc bruggeman via e mail thanks to instapundit for the link update 14 sept 2009 22 59z there is new information about the award research development test evaluation rdt e plan plasma fusion polywell project the naval air warfare center weapons division china lake has awarded a cost plus fixed fee contract for research analysis development and testing to validate the basic physics of the plasma fusion polywell concept as well as requirements to provide the navy with data for potential applications of polywell fusion with a delivered item wiffleball 8 wb8 and options for a modified wiffleball 8 wb8 1 and modified ion gun the requirement is sole sourced to energy matter conversion corporation emc2 who is the original developer of the plasma fusion polywell approach and holds the proprietary data rights the address for emc2 is 1202 parkway dr ste a santa fe nm 87507 7253 award includes an option for a wiffleball 8 1 for an additional 4 455 077 by dividing up the contract this way there are probably milestones that need to be met before further work is authorized posted by m simon at 9 12 2009 11 51 00 am 12 comments labels polywell sunday august 23 2009 a word for the sceptics i was looking at the comments to my american thinker article fusion energy and came across an interesting sequence of comments i had missed earlier the first comment is by a sceptic there are earlier comments by him in the comment section posted by wr jonas jun 19 01 18 pm i have spoken out here about my skepticism based on a provable dynamic and truth there will always be ample reasons to spend other peoples money to give this research or any other some noble purpose or cause does not necessarily make the aims correct or worthwhile if we were still shooting rockets at the moon and coming up empty or failed we would have stopped it a long time ago this canard of try until we run of money is the basis for continuing a proven failure because it is navy project doesn t give it any greater chance of success so how about we put the fusion research industry on a time results or dollar limit to see if it is ever going to produce anything any takers i added the emphasis and then there is a reply to the question by rick nebel posted by rnebel jun 23 04 11 pm mr jonas i ll take you up on that it seems rick is confident of getting a yes no answer on time and within budget for the question is it worthwhile to scale up the polywell fusion concept to the size of a modest 100 megawatts net power reactor and what is rick s time frame the answer rick gives is we will know in two years you can learn the basics of fusion energy by reading principles of fusion energy an introduction to fusion energy for students of science and engineering polywell is a little more complicated you can learn more about polywell and its potential at bussard s iec fusion technology polywell fusion explained the american thinker has a good article up with the basics same article referenced above why hasn t polywell fusion been fully funded by the obama administration posted by m simon at 8 23 2009 10 44 00 am 10 comments labels polywell sunday august 2 2009 feynman physics lectures video eric f via e mail alerted me to the fact that microsoft has made the feynman lectures on physics freely available you can watch them here and as a very helpful adjunct may i suggest the book version the feynman lectures on physics posted by m simon at 8 02 2009 06 17 00 pm 4 comments labels physics thursday june 18 2009 room temperature superconductors one step closer we are one step closer to room temperature superconductors menlo park calif move over silicon it may be time to give the 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