MSimon, you successfully dragged me over from NASASpaceFlight.com. Helps that I just joined a Yahoo bicycling group and had not yet forgotten my user name and...
OK, if you got Tom over here, then you can have me too. :) Brief introduction: I'm a software engineer, currently working on my own internet start-up and...
joe@...
Mar 22, 2007 3:50 pm
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OK, one more thought, as I was pondering that "food chain of the rich and famous"... does anyone know whether Sir Richard Branson has been made aware of this?...
joe@...
Mar 22, 2007 4:06 pm
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Joe, The problems with an amateur building a Polywell machine are two. One is not so hard - electron guns. The second is much harder: magnetic fields. For a ...
... OK, thanks for this detailed reply. Time for me to ask some of my naive physics questions. Now, I know Wikipedia is not always a reliable source, but I...
joe@...
Mar 22, 2007 7:32 pm
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... The I believe it has already been tried. Tom would know more about that. I expect that the limit is that the field is not strong enough. ... The problem is...
The Boron compounds suitable for injection into the system all have an excess of Hydrogen. Diborane is a gas (used in the semiconductor industry). Its formula...
On Mar 22, 2007, at 21:46 UTC, M. Simon wrote: [re. use of permanent magnets] ... Probably -- some more reading has turned up that permanent magnets max out at...
joe@...
Mar 22, 2007 10:56 pm
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Joe, The iron thing is definative. I assure you. Also there may be some minimum field stregth required for the Polywell to form. Tom can you help on this? ...
Nice page on electromagnets: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=539901 I slipped a decimal point. 10,000 gauss = 1 Tesla. A metal called Permadur...
Polywell - As I Currently Understand It This is my current understanding. If you have anny corrections or additions post them to the list or to the www site: ...
... Have you looked up the references in the "Should Google go Nuclear" transcript? In particular, I think the ones on page 8 (Bussard et al. 1995, and Krall...
joe@...
Mar 24, 2007 3:26 am
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... I think this may be right. In the 2006 IAC Paper, p. 20, Dr. Bussard writes: "The only small scale machine work remaining, which can yet give further...
joe@...
Mar 24, 2007 3:37 am
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I have a new one up with drawings and pictures. http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2007/03/polywell-adding-details.html Simon ...
Patent #4,826,646 is quite enlightening on the structure of the magnetic confinement device. You can read the text here: ...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 3:45 am
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... Well, except for WB-6 and maybe PZLx-1, which use the truncated cube geometry. (Though I'm at a bit of a loss to understand how PZLx-1 works at all.) I...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 3:57 am
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... Well shoot -- sorry to keep replying to myself, but this is important. I was confused above because that write-up is simply wrong. The machine pictured on...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 4:11 am
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... All right, at last I get it. Looking at WB-6 (which, we now all understand, is the final machine, with the toroidal coils), it's finally sunk in how this...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 4:25 am
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Tom Ligon says my description was correct. Simon ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web...
Or possibly they were not trying for maximum confinement. Simon ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV...
... Possibly so. I'm going to work towards simulating the field resulting from various configurations, and possibly even the paths of electrons within the...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 1:59 pm
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The easiest simulation to start would be to get four bar magnets. Glue them to a surface and then put a piece of paper over them. Sprinkle the paper with iron ...
Hate to be a naysayer without coming up with a constructive path forward, but...Bussard himself said his coding guy couldn't get the numerical simulation of...
... I meant simulate computationally, not study experimentally. Though of course there's merit in the experimental approach too; it just requires more time...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 3:27 pm
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... Oh yes, sorry, I see I was unclear: I had in mind basically qualitative simulations, with the purpose of giving us an understanding of what the 3D field...
joe@...
Mar 26, 2007 3:38 pm
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Moving charges create magnetic fields. This affects other charges moving with respect to the moving charges and every thing happens at right angles to evry...
Go for it Joe. And thanks for the link to the software. Simon ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV...
Getting a 3-D field shape would be most interesting, yes. Point well taken. Mathematica, anyone? ;-p Simulating well depth, etc. will require more than...
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