Aug
9
Tom Ligon has been generous enough to prepare and send to me a link list of the sites and resources that he suggests for looking into the Bussard Fusion Reactor.
* http://EMC2Fusion.org
* http://Askmar.com/fusion.html See note below.
* http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/
* http://Fusor.net
* NASASpaceFlight.com Forum (Advanced Topics, “Interesting fusion talk …”
Roger Fox animation: http://blip.tv/file/get/FogerRox-IECFusionForDummiesV2681.wmv
* http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IEC_Fusion/
* Bussard & Ligon on thespaceshow.com, May 8 2007 http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=709
* http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/index.php
* http://polywell.org/ (Just getting started)
* http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/fundiecf
* “Should Google Go Nuclear?” Transcript of a talk by R. W. Bussard, by Mark Duncan http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/Should%20Google%20Go%20Nuclear.pdf
* “Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap nuclear power (no, really).” Google Tech Talks, November 9, 2006. On-line video lecture by R. W. Bussard. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606
* Tom Ligon, “The World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor”, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Dec 1998. Updated copy available online at http://fusor.net/newbie/Ligon-QED-IE.pdf
* “The Advent of Clean Nuclear Fusion: Superperformance Space Power and Propulsion”, Robert W. Bussard, Ph.D., 57th International Astronautical Congress, Valencia, Spain, October 2-6, 2006. http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf
* Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, “Currents Limited by Space Charge Between Concentric Spheres”, Phys. Rev., 23, pps 49-59, 1924.
* “On the Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of a Plasma”, William C. Elmore, James L. Tuck, Kenneth M. Watson, The Physics of Fluids, v. 2, no. 3, May-June 1959.
* “Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of Ionized Fusion Gases”, Robert L. Hirsch, Journal of Applied Physics, v. 38, no. 11, October 1967.
* P. T. Farnsworth, U.S. Patent No. 3,258,402, issued 28 June 1966.
* “On the Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of a Plasma”, William C. Elmore, James L. Tuck, Kenneth M. Watson, The Physics of Fluids, v. 2, no. 3, May-June 1959.
* “Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of Ionized Fusion Gases”, Robert L. Hirsch, Journal of Applied Physics, v. 38, no. 11, October 1967.
* R. W. Bussard, “Method and Apparatus for Controlling Charged Particles,” U.S. Patent 4,826,646 (2 May 1989).
* R. W. Bussard, “Fusion as Electric Propulsion,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, v 6, no 5, Sept-Oct 1990, pps 567-574.
* R. W. Bussard and L. W. Jameson, “From SSTO to Saturn’s Moons: Superperformance Fusion Propulsion for Practical Spaceflight,” 30th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, 27-29 June, 1994, AIAA 94-3269.
* Inertial-Electrostatic-Fusion Propulsion Spectrum: Air-Breathing to Interstellar Flight, R. W. Bussard and L. W. Jameson, Journal of Propulsion and Power, v. 11, no. 2, pps 365-372.
* R. W. Bussard, “System Technical and Economic Features of QED-Engine-Driven Space Transportation,” 33rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, 6-9 July, 1997, AIAA 97-3071.
A number of internal documents related to early Polywell work have been released by DTIC under the Freedom of Information Act. Askmar has now posted these, as well as many of the space-application papers posted during the Navy “embargo” on technical publication during the mid-1990 to 2005 period.
Comments
9 Comments so far
Excellent list!
Let me add a blog devoted to IEC Fusion:
IEC Fusion Technology blog
http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/
It is devoted to actual reactor design.
The Yahoo group is a compliment to the blog. It is about 50% design and 50% other stuff, including government relations, fund raising, practical uses, and lots of misc.
At the blog I am focusing on the design of a continuously operating test reactor as a first step to a production reactor.
Let me add that you are now on the blog roll at IEC Fusion Tech.
Tom Ligon, “The World’s Simplest Nuclear Reactor Revisited”, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February 2008. History of the WB-1 thru WB-6 experiments.
I absolutely love reading your posts, your variety of writing is extraordinary.This post as usual was informative, I have had to bookmark your website and subscribe to your feed in feeburner. Your site looks lovely.
Excellent post, bookmarked the blog in interest to see more information!
nice!
Great post mate.
I think one of your advertisements caused my internet browser to resize, you might want to put that on your blacklist.
I as well as my friends appeared to be reading through the great secrets found on your site and then suddenly I had a horrible feeling I had not thanked the web site owner for them. All the guys happened to be as a consequence happy to read all of them and have now been tapping into these things. Appreciation for actually being so helpful and also for obtaining variety of magnificent topics most people are really needing to learn about. My honest apologies for not expressing appreciation to you earlier.
happy every day