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"Fusion We Can Believe In"
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| Dec 16, 2008
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 01/01/2009 11:41:19 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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This is the first report I've seen on the final report on the experiments run to duplicate Dr. Bussard's experiments with WB-6. It looks like a "go" for the next step. The above is a pretty severely limited except (300 words just ain't enough, moderators).
To: Wonder Warthog
except = excerpt (I can spell, just not type!!)
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:47:51 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
( The Hog of Steel)
To: Wonder Warthog
Is this an attempt at aneutronic fusion?
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:48:49 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
To: Wonder Warthog
Sounds like a scam to me.
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:50:26 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Wonder Warthog
Working on a shoestring budget, researchers have found no reason why a low-cost approach to nuclear fusion won't work. .... The sun's been doing it fer years without spending a penny!
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:50:45 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Illegal Zombies: Just Eating the Brains that Ordinary Americans Won't Eat)
To: ConservativeMind
"Is this an attempt at aneutronic fusion?" This particular experiment is not, but Bussard hoped that the "polywell" concept could reach sufficiently high energies that the aneutronic proton-boron process would be workable.
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:51:52 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
( The Hog of Steel)
To: Moonman62
"Sounds like a scam to me." If so, then everything you hear must "sound like a scam". This is serious, peer-reviewed science, and, in fact, this report is about the final result of the peer-rev9iew process.
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:55:21 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
( The Hog of Steel)
To: Lazamataz
"The sun's been doing it fer years without spending a penny! " True, but God does things on a large scale. We need something that works in a smaller package.
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:56:32 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
( The Hog of Steel)
To: Wonder Warthog
Buckminster Fuller’s “buckyballs”?
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posted on
01/01/2009 11:57:46 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Balkanization - perhaps one of the few remaining ways to preserve American ideals.)
To: Wonder Warthog

We haven't had an advance in arc reactor technology in 30 years. Maybe it's time.
To: Wonder Warthog; Admin Moderator
(300 words just ain't enough, moderators). Don't feel too bad. Recently I jumped through all kind of hoops to do radical surgery on a CNN story so it would meet the posting and excerpting guidelines and still make sense.
Only to have a mod come along and excerpt it down to two sentences which destroyed the story.
I posted a reply asking why that was done but got no response. Go figure.
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:08:04 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Get ready for 2009: Pray; Raise/conserve cash; Pay your debts; Pray; Stockpile; Buy ammo; Pray)
To: Wonder Warthog
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:09:37 PM PST
by
Rick_Michael
(Have no fear "Senator Government" is here)
To: Wonder Warthog
Thanks for posting this. BMFLR.
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:10:06 PM PST
by
Kevmo
( It's all over for this Country as a Constitutional Republic. ~Leo Donofrio, 12/14/08)
To: Wonder Warthog
The Polywell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
To: Wonder Warthog
For 50 years knowledgeable scientists have been asked, “when will Fusion be viable. Here are their answers:
1970: “In about 25 years!”
1980: “In about 25 years!”
1990: “In about 25 years!”
2000: “In about 25 years!”
2008: “In about 25 years!”
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:29:15 PM PST
by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
To: Wonder Warthog
The above is a pretty severely limited except (300 words just ain't enough, moderators).Don't worry about it. The excerpt is to hook the reader. The Read more at is for those who are hooked. Those who are interested shouldn't mind going to the 'trouble' of clicking the link. Those who aren't interested won't even make it through the excerpt.
If I see a topic I like, such as this, I won't bother with the excerpt. I go directly to the article. Anyway, thanks for this good post.
To: HangnJudge
Polywell in action...
To: TRY ONE
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:34:33 PM PST
by
fuente
To: TRY ONE
"2008: In about 25 years!" FWIW, Dr. Bussard said nothing like that about the polywell. He was convinced that it could be done quite quickly.
To: upchuck
Only to have a mod come along and excerpt it down to two sentences which destroyed the story.
I posted a reply asking why that was done but got no response. Go figure. I've done the same and had it chopped away several times myself. Never had a real explanation or correction when I asked either.
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posted on
01/01/2009 12:41:38 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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