Comments on: More News From the Nebel Led Bussard IEC Fusion Team

By: Dudley Codell

Dudley Codell — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:27:41 +0000

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By: More on Bussard Fusion, now being championed and carried on by Richard Nebel at LLNL. : Canadian Election 2008

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:11:12 +0000

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By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:53:06 +0000

I’m totally honored.

BTW link to this posted at:

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2008/08/bussard_fusion_1.html

Excuse my first comment. Corrected in the second.

And thanks for the link to New Mars. Hadn’t seen that.

And of course Kudos to you and Roger.

By: Samizdata.net

Samizdata.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:58:02 +0000

Bussard fusion reactor under test…

The Bussard ‘Inertial Electrostatic Confinement’ (IEC) Fusion test device has been built and tested. The team is being very tight lipped about precise results due to the terms of their funding. The group leader, Dr. Nebel does seem rather positive ab…

By: TallDave

TallDave — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:30:37 +0000

Oh I should add — the D-D machine can probably be built for around $50M based on some back-of-envelope calcs people have done at TalkPolywell. The rest is getting the damned thing to work, which will be very challenging, and ultimately perhaps impossible. It’s probably worth a shot though, if the WB-7 data looks good. It sounds like there will be a high-level review of that data by a committee various independent scientists from the field in the coming months.

By: TallDave

TallDave — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:26:40 +0000

Heh, I should point out I was the author of an error in the comment that Nebel replied to there. I said “1.5M in diameter” which was wrong; it’s actually 1.5M in radius. Duh.

Anon, $3M was for WB-7. The estimate for a 1.5M radius net power machine is $100-200M.

By: thorium

thorium — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:13:25 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:11:09 +0000

Where did the new $3 Million cost estimate from Dr. Nebel come from, and compare this to past estimates of $150 M to $200 M?