Jul
10
More News From the Nebel Led Bussard IEC Fusion Team
July 10, 2008 | 4 Comments
Monday saw the Internet come alive with a posting on a New Mars forum where it’s thought with considerable credibility that Dr. Richard Nebel of EMC2 discussed some of his thoughts. The news made was an aside by Dr. Nebel that the one of the next logical steps could be a larger Bussard unit that [...]
Jun
17
Bussard’s Machine Runs Great!
June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
I should have read the emails sooner – last Thursday night saw Alan Boyle put up his report about his conversation with Richard Nebel at EMC2. Quoting Mr. Nebel saying, “We’re fully operational and we’re getting data. The machine runs like a top. You can just sit there and take data all afternoon.”
Whew, what a [...]
Jun
2
Fusion Starts To Spin Off Technology
June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
Focus Fusion, the process name of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. the company of the estimable and innovative Eric Lerner is first to reach a noteworthy milestone in fusion research. Mr. Lerner’s research, well on its way to developing a breakeven fusion process, has a product being readied that benefits humanity as the fusion research [...]
May
22
The Cruel Honesty of the Merits
May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments
The price of oil has about doubled in less than a year. Coal has jumped up a similar percentage, too. The specialty press, the Internet writers, mainstream media, investors, producers and customers are by some perspective or another agog at the whole thing. Things are different now and will get a lot [...]
May
19
Buzzard’s IEC Fusion Lets Loose A Little Info
May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
With masterstrokes of enthusiasm, diligence and genuine niceness, M. Simon who runs iecfusiontech.blogspot.com has enticed the best minds that are most knowledgeable about Dr. Robert Bussard’s inertial confinement technique to fuse atoms to participate with him in a forum. With the people like himself, the estimable Tom Ligon , and lately the leader at [...]
Mar
18
What is a Stellarator?
March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The marvels of human imagination are astonishing. Way back in 1951 Lyman Spitzer at Princeton University proposed a design for plasma containment now called a stellarator. Stellarator is a word supposed to suggest a connection to a “star machine” and is being built by the Max Planck Institute as a way to contain [...]
Feb
19
Why the Pure Hydrogen Economy Is Dying
February 19, 2008 | 6 Comments
Man has been moving to carbon enriched with hydrogen for a couple of centuries now. One could say we’re decarbonizing, because since the dawn of the fire until the discovery of coal we burned primarily wood. Wood has a carbon to hydrogen (C:H) ratio of 10 to 1 or wood has 10 carbon [...]
Feb
15
Hopeful Signals About Bussard’s and Other Fusion Projects
February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
Some time back another fusion view was offered by Karl Schroeder, more famed for his science fiction work than his noticeable knowledge about technology. But the fiction guys have a long and distinguished history of getting the future plotted for us and when one of the better insight makers offers his thoughts, they are [...]
Jan
21
Cheap Fusion Energy Lost To the Atmosphere
January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
You were thinking wind turbines right off. This is a more serious atmosphere that as I learned more over then past few weeks has been saddening and distressful. It’s the atmosphere in the science community and the press that watches and writes stories about developments. Just a few weeks ago I too [...]
Jan
14
Watching the Small Stuff for the Big Results
January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When we’re looking into energy and fuels we tend to overlook the size of the products at work. Most of the press attention and technology news tends to be huge numbers like millions of barrels, billions of mega joules, trillions of quads and so forth. The endless parade with such numbers gets a [...]
