Comment: two words - rack slides (Score 1) 402
Comment: Re:Linux car distros (Score 1) 45
Comment: Chevy Volt is linux already (Score 1) 45
Comment: Re:Farnsworth Device? Have one here. (Score 1, Troll) 244
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Peer reviewed journals? That's for academics trying to keep others out of the club. Grow a pair boys, and do as I do - just make it all open source - we keep no secrets, and yes, many of us dupe one another's results, we're doing science truer to the original ideals than the so called "pros" more often than not.
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One thing I don't like about tokomaks - energy disperses into too many degrees of freedom and while it radiates well from all of them (losses), it only makes fusion when there are near collisions. I'm working with an idea here that also takes into account various conservation laws tokomak (all thermal approaches) ignore - like spin conservation, to see if I can mess around with the relative probabilities of the 3 possible DD reactions - and it's looking promising.
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Focus fusion is interesting, but there are some engineering problems Lerner brushes off I can't go along with as easily. Bussard's thing - well, where's even a small scale one we can compare with Farnsworth/Hirsch/Meeks? All talk, no results - even amateur - so far. NIF is as they say, a way to test nukes without breaking some treaties about testing nukes, they add an energy spin to it for PR purposes primarily.
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See my sig for links to my work, and some of our group. It's not always at the top of the discussion boards, but there's plenty there, and some movies on DCFusor's youtube channel.
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Best of luck MIT - while I don't think tokomaks are the way - too many degrees of freedom - I hope for success for us all!
Comment: Re:Who Bought Them? (Score 1) 443
Comment: Re:You are not innocent (Score 1) 410
Comment: Re:Culmination of a dream (Score 1) 372
Comment: Re:Zinc reusable, better than solar? (Score 1) 406
My question too. I've been off-grid on PV solar since 1980 or so, even charge my Volt with it. 3k degrees won't be reached easily or often with the tech I know, even with trackers and concentrators. So not only "how much energy does it make vs the same sq feet of PV panels" is in question, but how much per average day per sq foot when it's partly cloudy and so forth. Gheesh and then, electricity is hard enough to store - but hydrogen? Natures way of storing hydrogen is, unfortunately, as a hydrocarbon. I guess that's why my car is electric.