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Anonymous said...

He's using a design by Robert Bussard, who helped invent the tokamak and later decided it would never work. His "polywell" design is currently being tested by the Navy, and there are a lot of people who think we might actually get practical fusion out of it within the next five years. Things seem to be going well.



To get net power out of the polywell, it has to be several meters wide, which will cost a couple hundred million to build. This guy probably won't manage that, but he may well provide valuable test data and help prove whether the idea works.

Friday, July 9, 2010 at 1:30 PM

Craig said...

He keeps a blog here.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 2:41 AM