“If WB-7 was similar to WB-6 it means an increase from 3 neutrons a shot to 12,000. A real countable number i.e the error bars will be much lower. A count of 3 can actually be considered a count of 3 +/-2. That is a big error bar.”
Paydirt for Polywell, isn’t the same thing as a revolutionary new power generator for the rest of us. I mean, I’m glad the results are good enough to proceed. That said, this is make or break time. If the scaling model is wrong, then this is another cold fusion mess. Good luck to the team.
Well, I would say that the fact that the Navy is planning to explore PB11 that the results must have been "really, really good". And no, it won't be "another cold fusion mess", at worst it will be on a par with the Tokamak. Nebel has been VERY careful to do peer review.