fusion

I keep reading articles like the following: https://spectrum.ieee.org/zap-energy-fusion-reactor and https://spectrum.ieee.org/general-fusion-takes-aim-at-practical-fusion-power Fusion power seems to explain the current state of the art. I remember reading about: in the magazine Nuclear...

Really?

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/iter-still-seeking-approval-and-.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/06/iter_funding_grab/ Well over-budget. And still in doubt of success. Will Fusion be 20 years off forever? This says to me that we cannot defer design and...

No. This will be my crash and burn alone...:D

Postulation: If suddenly, tomorrow for example, a brilliant scientist discovered a method for producing a completely or near completely clean, free energy source, for example, an efficient fusion reactor, or even something along the lines of a sort of "cold fusion" what would be a possible...

COULOMB’S LAW ONLY VALID FOR RELATIVE MOTION RELATIONSHIPS Our experimental data confirms that elementary charged particles behave according to the expectations of Coulomb’s law when the interacting particles have relative motion with respect to each other, but what about when they don’t...

On the z-pinch and sunspots as examples of z-pinch phenomena. In other threads much of the electric sun model has been discussed at some lenth and confusion of subject matter. A certain poster has made two claims in seperate threads, one that sunspots are where Birkeland currents enter the sun...

I'd like to comment more on this, but don't have the time right now. See http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606 for a talk given at Google. According to a very bright, Princeton educated physicist Robert Bussard, who has successfully created fusion in small, magnetically...

Yes, I know, ITER intends to have 500 MW of output by 2016, but what, realistically, is the chance that will happen as planned? All my life, fusion reactors have been just around the corner, but each new Tokamak, Stellerator, Laser Array, etc, has shown us ways we were wholly ignorant of the...

There is a theory that the sun is not powered by internal fusion but by electric currents that exist in the galaxy. This started is a plasma cosmology thread but it seems to warrant it's own thread. http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm Gives an overview of the model, if I understand the...

Hmmm, : http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?site=fusor&bn=fusor_announce&key=1143684406 Look at what dude wrote it, yes, that's the real Robert Bussard, of Bussard ramjet fame. I wonder if this is on the level?

Is cold fusion still considered to be impossible because it breaks the laws of physics? I tried to do a little research on the subject, but with no physics background its hard for me to distinguish between fact and fiction. And there seems to be a lot of woo theories out there. The reason I...

Well, this is an interesting development. With all the political and cultural instability in the world, at least the space race might be on sooner!

Looks like cold fusion is slowly coming back to life :) ….perhaps to haunt those who fail to be sceptical of sceptics too. :o Read http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/JosephsonBpathologic.pdf Written by Brian D Josephson - winner of a Nobel Prize for Physics (1973) Josephson doesn't seem too...

Well? Is it? Is it ever likely to be? Sorry about the blatantly misleading thread title but it's a competitive market out there. My point is this - What is the current state of play with genuine fusion research. Is there even such a thing? Will we ever see fusion power stations and, if so, when?

Wow, those Nigerians really know how to get people to hand over their money ;-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/419_cold_fusion/ Olaf, perhaps you'd like to contribute some cash? ;-)

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_hecht042304.asp