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IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:06 pm
by Dan Knapp
The presentations from the 2015 US-Japan Workshop are now online at:
http://iec2015.es.titech.ac.jp/presentation/index.html

Re: IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:08 pm
by Frank Sanns
Thanks Dan,

These sessions always interest me. Wish I could participate. There are many good things and many missed things. One has to wonder where it is all going.

Many years back I tried to work directly with the University of Wisconsin on some things that I saw in their data. Also wanted to share some specifics of my research and some unpublished results with my patented plasma electrodes (no inner grid to melt) but they were adamant that they did not want information sharing. The word from Kulcinski was that they had it covered. I went on to get the patent 7550741 and continue my own research. A few more things are in the works but the point is that some of these people are too territorial and really think nobody else can contribute. A shame as fusion needs all of the help it can get.

Thanks for the link.

Re: IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:23 am
by Richard Hull
I viewed a couple of presentations and found them interesting. I find that for their size, our 6-8 inch fusors do a fabulous job at higher D2 pressures up to 50kv applied. The simple amateur fusor is still a fun and rather productive unit for so very simple a device.

All electrostatic fusion machines are relatively simple devices with complex operational regimes that can't be codified well, but only studied piecemeal, process by process. This complexity, while making them unsuitable for useful fusion energy production, actually allows fusion to be done very inexpensively compared to machines struggling to produce power.

The fusor, as we build it, is a nearly perfect device for the amateur scientist seeking to do fusion.

Richard Hull

Re: IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 12:53 am
by Adrian Hindes
It seems like a lot of these research groups' interest in IEC devices is more as a neutron source to do irradiation material studies with rather than power generation.

Re: IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 9:16 am
by Bob Reite
The experts feel that the only practical use for IEC is a neutron source that can be switched on and off at will. They are pessimistic about generation of net power from an IEC device.

Re: IEC2015 Presentations

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:49 am
by Richard Hull
Their pessimism is well placed about IEC doing power fusion, just like mine is about just doing power fusion with any process on the immediate horizon.

Richard Hull