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Near light-speed travel possible with Wiffle-Ball 7.1


Ezechiel

Paranormal Adept
Ever hear of Bussard's electrostatic confinement fusion ?
WB7%20Polywell%20Pic.jpg



Its america's attempt at cheap fusion energy (relatively speaking) and the early results are positive !!!
http://www.emc2fusion.org/

The end of fossil fuels ? a guy named Richard Nebel has taken over from Robert Bussard (he passed away in 2007). This would make a great show ;)

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportu...e8521ff4f488a7&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck=

If this pans out we'll be wizzing around the solar system in no time ;)

http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1148


I thought I'd submit this before it gets buried ! Here's the gag order.

5252.204-9504 DISCLOSURE OF CONTRACT INFORMATION (NAVAIR) (JAN 2007)
(a) The Contractor shall not release to anyone outside the Contractor’s organization any unclassified information
(e.g., announcement of contract award), regardless of medium (e.g., film, tape, document), pertaining to any part of
this contract or any program related to this contract, unless the Contracting Officer has given prior written approval.
(b) Requests for approval shall identify the specific information to be released, the medium to be used, and the
purpose for the release. The Contractor shall submit its request to the Contracting Officer at least ten (10) days
before the proposed date for release.
(c) The Contractor agrees to include a similar requirement in each subcontract under this contract. Subcontractors
shall submit requests for authorization to release through the prime contractor to the Contracting Officer.
 
Is there anyway you can explain this in basic laymens terms? I dont understand it at all.

I think the best way to explain this is through Robert Bussard himself while he was alive. Here's the Google link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

In this video, Bussard is making a presentation in order to get funding from Google.

Essentially the idea is to force nuclear fusion through electrostatic confinement (magnets configured in a dodecahedron). The navy just awarded a 300k contract to a group directed by Richard Nebel to complete the last tests. (March 3rd, 2009) The next step is to build the WB-100, a large scale version.

Bussard system uses magnets on the outside to contain the electrons and have the electrons go around and around 100,000 times before being lost outside the magnetic field.

The fuel either comes in as ions from an ion gun or it comes in without a charge and some of it is ionized by collisions with the madly spinning electrons. The fuel is affected by the same forces as the electrons but a little differently because it is going much slower. About 64 times slower in the case of Deuterium fuel (a hydrogen with one neutron). Now these positively charged Deuterium ions are attracted to the virtual electrode (the electron cloud) in the center of the machine. So they come rushing in. If they come rushing in fast enough and hit each other just about dead on they join together and make a He3 nucleus (two protons and a neutron) and give off a high energy neutron.

Ions that miss will go rushing through the center and then head for one of the grids. When the voltage field they traveled through equals the energy they had at the center of the machine the ions have given up their energy to the grids (which repel the ions), they then go heading back to the center of the machine where they have another chance at hitting another ion at high enough speed and close enough to
cause a fusion.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/01/bussards-inertial-electrostatic.html

On Bussard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard

MSNBC:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/16/1718741.aspx


This could remove some barriers to interstellar travel. I hope I'm alive when they test Einsteins light speed limitation ;)
An near infinite source of energy opens up a lot of doors and solves an incredible number of human problems. This WB-100 solution is competing with the ITER program in Cadarache (France) at a fraction of the cost. Iter is scheduled to ignite in 2016. WB-100 could be completed by 2014.
 
Wow, fascinating stuff!!

What bowls me over is that this is not common knowledge and that GW didn't encourage the initiative.

The funding for this was pitiful while the potential is world changing. Tells you about the management of the technology sector in the U.S. and its very surprising that China didn't pick it up by now.

The old tokamak idea doesn't work well. This model simulates real fusion dynamics, it works and its cheap. Maybe too cheap ?
 
I think the best way to explain this is through Robert Bussard himself while he was alive. Here's the Google link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

In this video, Bussard is making a presentation in order to get funding from Google.

Essentially the idea is to force nuclear fusion through electrostatic confinement (magnets configured in a dodecahedron). The navy just awarded a 300k contract to a group directed by Richard Nebel to complete the last tests. (March 3rd, 2009) The next step is to build the WB-100, a large scale version.



http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/01/bussards-inertial-electrostatic.html

On Bussard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard

MSNBC:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/16/1718741.aspx


This could remove some barriers to interstellar travel. I hope I'm alive when they test Einsteins light speed limitation ;)
An near infinite source of energy opens up a lot of doors and solves an incredible number of human problems. This WB-100 solution is competing with the ITER program in Cadarache (France) at a fraction of the cost. Iter is scheduled to ignite in 2016. WB-100 could be completed by 2014.

I played tetherball with Robert Hirsch when I was 7 years old. God linked me to this Polywell thing at least 4 times in my life. For 50 years God was playing with himself until the 5th time when he caused me to see Bussards Google video. Then google acted like a corporation. GREEDY and bought UTube. The Father of TV, Philo T. Farnsworth rolled over in his grave. Robert Hirsch is the middle man between: (1) Fusor invented by Philo T. Farnsworth and (2) Polywell invented by Robert W. Bussard. Bussard is Step Father of the Tokmack. Otherwise the father of the Tokmack is some Soviet dude. Bussard is also Father of NUCLEAR Rocket. The difference from Fusor and Polywell is magnetick confinment of electrons. Fusor didnt have it, Polywell does have it. Otherwise in both designs a large cloud of electrons make a huge virtual negative voltage at the center of either device. Then intraduce the DD and they go charging to the middle. Fun thing is if you can hit a barn door you can do this. One way to give people a head start to understand mag confinment; Electrons circles around the invisible North South Pole. Tetherball: a ball circles around a metal pole. Farnsworth and Bussard are Maverics. Hirsch is a Genius, but otherwise a man interested in money not vision. My Grandmother was refered to as Poly or Polly. Poly is sitting on the well hoping for a cracker but up above her was a Buzzard.
I dont like God, but he is correct (yuk) peace comes from him. Bussard should have known better than to talk as if he could do, that which only God can do. Ordinary man kind is so bad he can even mees up the closest thing to infinit electricity. Me and the neighbor of 50 years ago Robert Hirsch are 15 years younger than Robert Hirsch.
 
Its a bit sad to see no progress reports recently on the wiki page

As of August 15, 2012, the Navy had agreed to fund EMC2 with an additional $5.3 million over 2 years to work on the problem of pumping electrons into the whiffleball. They plan to integrate a pulsed power supply to support the electron guns (100+A, 10kV). WB-8 has been operating at 0.8 Tesla. The review of the work produced the recommendations to continue and expand the effort,[70] stating: "The experimental results to date were consistent with the underlying theoretical framework of the polywell fusion concept and, in the opinion of the committee, merited continuation and expansion."[71]

Polywell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Once the navy got its hands on it, it dropped off the radar. though there have been some more recent developments elsewhere.

But others are working on them

Polywell | Radiant Matter Research

lots of info here too
Talk-Polywell.org • View forum - News
 
Experimental Discharge Characterization and Scaling of IEC Plasma Devices
IEPC-2013-289
presented at
33rd International Electric Propulsion Conference,
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
October 6{10, 2013
Constanze Syring and Georg Herdrichy


University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 70567, Germany
Inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) is considered to be a promising future technology for space applications especially for advanced space propulsion systems with high Isps.
Since this technology was mainly investigated and developed for applications as neutron source until a few years ago, a great potential and need for investigations regarding dis-charge phenomena such as the propellant confinement and the jet extraction for thrust generation is still existent. Moreover, the mechanisms behind the dierent discharge phenomena are not deeply understood yet. However, there are theories giving an insight into the physics that still have to be confirmed by experiments.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...tEMpqHPUnBxrek5E_M57UGQ&bvm=bv.61725948,d.dmQ
 
Skunk works reckon they will be building these by 2017

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, the same crew responsible for the original stealth fighter, say they'll have a trailer-sized fusion reactor running by 2017.
Huh? Lockheed Martin announces Scalable Fusion Prototype Generator by 2017 | Exopermaculture

"Most estimates" do not, apparently, include research being done at Lockheed Martin's secretive advanced development center, Skunk Works. At Google's Solve For X, Charles Chase describes what his team has been working on: a trailer-sized fusion power plant that turns cheap and plentiful hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) into helium plus enough energy to power a small city. It's safe, it's clean, and Lockheed is promising an operational unit by 2017 with assembly line production to follow, enabling everything from unlimited fresh water to engines that take spacecraft to Mars in one month instead of six.

Lockheed's Skunk Works promises fusion power in four years | DVICE
 
To speed up this timetable Skunk Works is proposing a scaled down fusion reactor. “What if… you were able to generate fusion in a compact form-factor? Something that would generate 100 MW of power. Enough power for a small city of 50-100 thousand people, in something that would fit on the back of a truck.”
While technical details in Chase’s talk were sparse (it is a black ops division) he did say that back at Skunk Works they have built a compact experimental apparatus and are already seeing good results.
If the project is successful it would mean that portable, scalable and inexpensive energy might be available to the entire planet sooner than we expect.

Well worth the watching time


If they are telling the truth, the planet will be changed in so many ways in just 3 years time
 
Update:

On April the 13th, Next Big Future published an article on information of the Wiffle Ball reactor dated to 2013 through the Freedom of Information Act.
On May 2 2016, Professor Jaeyoung Park delivered a lecture at Khon Kaen University in Thailand, with a discussion of the idea that the world has so underestimated the timetable and impact that practical and economic fusion power will have, that its actual arrival will be highly disruptive. Specifically, Professor Park stated that he expected to present "final scientific proof of principle for the polywell technology around 2019-2020", and expects "a first generation commercial fusion reactor being developed by 2030 and then mass production and commercialisation of the technology in the 2030's. This is approximately 30 years faster than expected under the first world government-driven International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor (ITER) project. It would also be tens of billions of dollars cheaper."

EMC2_11.11.13.pdf

Its interesting that he predicts the technology will be highly disruptive, this is an often discusssed aspect of hypothetical alien technology being dropped in our laps
 
Fusion to Be Commercialised Thirty Years Faster than Expected - Civil Society's Role | Prachatai English

However, neither the market nor the world's governments are presently ready for a commercial fusion reactor in the 2030's. One effect of commercial fusion would be to drive the price of coal and oil even lower, meaning developing countries, such as South American countries which export oil and those countries which export coal, such as Indonesia, may suffer disruptive shocks to their economies.
 
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