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This experiment specifically went for (-) plasma; AKA the "quasineutral" assumption does not apply. The Navy/LANL team injected 3 amps of electrons for 150 microseconds at 7,200 volts. This is what the device looked like compared to earlier (2005) experiments: This was inside a cube vacuum...

Hello All, In this recent Navy publication, a team of researchers said they have discovered cusp confinement. This could be a major step towards fusion power. I am working on a write up of this publication. I am trying to understand their inferometry data. As far as I can tell, the...

A charged particle - like an electron - has a magnetic moment. This moment changes depending on where the electron is. If you apply a magnetic field to an object with a magnetic moment, it experiences a torque. It turns. This turning motion is not included in the overall motion of the...

Hello, When neutrons hit materials, it can cause them to degrade and crack. The way this is measured is in displacements per atom. The equation for this effect is the following: Displacements per atom = neutron flux * time * materials cross section (@ that neutron energy) Cracks...

One fission reaction, of a U-235 nucleouse produces 2.4 Neutrons. In a pressurized water reactor, those uranium fuel rods are clad and sitting in water, giving off these neutrons. They are fast. The water slows them down, but does not absorb them and this generates heat. The inside of that...

Hello, What is Teflon's Magnetic Permeability? It is very close to Chloroform's Magnetic Permeability. It is not easily found in a google search or on Wikipedia or in papers. It is measured in [Henrys/Meter] and is a measure of how well a material "conducts" magnetic fields. I have...

Polywell Links: A 1 hour 15 minute YouTube Film About the Polywell with Thomas Ligon, which trys to objectively present the Pro's & Con's of the polywell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HatEDkNnn8&feature=related The Talk Polywell Forum, which is filled with lots of discussions...