Posted on 05/07/2014 3:25:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
thxs, for the ping.
“secret... magnetic reconnection”
The process in T shock tubes which produced dense million degree plasmas for the Naval Research Laboatories in 1958. And was well publicized at the time.
It is a likely path, though shock tubes aren’t a good geometry.
Here is a fusion company out of Vancouver. Its called General Fusion. The founder Michel Laberge. Its been at work since 2002. The guy has done a presentation at a TED conference there. The company has about 60 million worth of funding (including funding from the canadian government, and a big staff that’s currently building a fusion machine.) Does anyone understand fusion designs well enough to know whether this design is within the design margins of what might be a successful fusion machine. Does anyone understand fusion well enough to know whether the speaker at the TED conference knows what he’s talking about—even if you might disagree with him.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/michel_laberge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/technology-news/general-fusion-new-ceo-nathan-gilliland/
http://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-future-may-be-getting-close-to-reality-in-vancouver-with-d-wave-and-general-fusion/
I'm still trying to understand how the refrigerator works. I may need to try and fix it myself.
Cold Fusion is safer and cheaper than Hot Fusion.
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