Aug
24
IEC Fusion Development May Apply to the Bussard Effort
August 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
It seems that Richard Nebel, leader of the Bussard Fusion effort at EMC2 in New Mexico while on leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) isn’t so much left as still working a wide ranging in the effort to get Inertial Electrostatic (IEC) Fusion into a successful technology. It’s a very good sign to see [...]
Jun
29
The Cold Fusion War Is Lost
June 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
An advantage to writing for site like this is the willingness and directive to look into things that are at the edge of technology and watch the progress. The reporting can be just a joy, but for years now the joy has been smeared by the motives of a few in an important field. Steven [...]
Jun
24
A TriAlpha Energy Update
June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Rostoker & Monkhorst, the near famous physicists who are chasing an idea for fusion using an interesting if bewildering containment vessel have been granted a patent that has more information that may – or may not – present clues as to the progress of the group’s research and development. A little background from what is [...]
Jun
17
A Focus Fusion Update About the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Fusion Effort
June 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
Eric Lerner’s Focus Fusion team let go a little information at Focusfusion.org on the progress. While not a milestone, for those watching with interest the posting is welcome news. The Lawrenceville plan for the current course is made of eight steps: Get the machine to pinch, i.e. achieve a focusing of the input energy – [...]
May
20
A Worthwhile Foray Into Nuclear Energy
May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments
Brian Wang over at NextBigFuture posted an interesting collection of nuclear energy pages under the title ‘Carnival of Nuclear Energy’. Brian did a good job of catching the current events and in his way of brief titles and very short summaries puts out the bait for linking out to more info. Brian covers some 14 [...]
May
17
A Self-Sustaining Fusion Reactor Plan
May 17, 2010 | 6 Comments
MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi will be the principal investigator for a new fusion reactor that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of requiring a constant input of energy. Coppi originated the design. Now it’s time for some “brain drain” from the U.S. [...]
May
13
A Fusion Power Breakthrough
May 13, 2010 | 5 Comments
Noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber leading a research team at Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque has taken a big step towards meeting two of the greatest technological challenges of pulsed power for fusion – current amplification and pulse compression. Fusion, particularly inertial confinement fusion, requires that tremendous power be concentrated almost instantaneously into the fuel. [...]
Apr
13
Better Than Expected Results From Focus Fusion
April 13, 2010 | 13 Comments
Eric Lerner’s Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LLP) is developing a dense plasma focus fusion reactor, to use proton-boron (pB11) fuel. Lerner’s work was initially funded by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is now investor-funded. The project is aiming to produce an extremely economical, compact, environmentally safe and essentially inexhaustible source of energy. The projections can get [...]
