Polywell Nuclear Fusion Reactor 3D

[happyjack2700]

i wrote my own polywell simulation software for a GPGPU and made lots of videos of the sims.

on the order of 10s of thousands of particles, both ions and electrons, sim includes all particle-particle interactions, both electric and magnetic, as well as all static electric and magnetic fields from the grids.

check it out. youtube user: happyjack27 (since i can't seem to post a link here)

[hekma]

@ huangbilly ...at what time can we expect results from the WB-7 experiment ?

[roidroid]

Team leader Dr Nebel has said that the results of WB-7 experiments are all looking positive.

(google: "Verdict Positive for Inertial Electrostatic Fusion" )

The Navy is continuing funding for a new modified version of WB-7 (nicknamed WB-7.1) for further experimentations.

[huangbilly]

Not entirely theoretical, the wiki entry on the polywell is quite descriptive on actual experiments performed. This simulation is based on the WB-6 design which has been tested live.

[Bonecrkr]

Aren't they really close to reproducing those experiments for the benefit of several large corporations interested in developing the technology? I thought Polywell was firmly out of the realm of the theoretical and in the realm of the practical. In other words only issues of engineering are in the way of making it a practical technology and there are corporations interested in solving those engineering issues if the theory can be proven to their satisfaction. By the end of this summer?

[huangbilly]

Many experiments have already been produced under Dr. Bussard (his company was known as E=MC^2) however the experiments were only run for fractions of a second. Additionally the experiments used a confinement volume too small for continued fusion reactions. Therefore it is necessary for a larger scale reactor to run a continued fusion reaction that achieves "break even", however as Dr. Bussard noted, doubling the volume more than doubles the confinement time.

[huangbilly]

Dr. Bussard indicated an intermediate reactor size would not be necessary, and that it would be economical to go straight to a full size reactor. However this would be in the region of at least $200m. I think if the remaining engineering issues could be solved, and the theory could be proved to support a larger scale project then the Polywell is indeed a promising hope for Nuclear Fusion, but I think this is a few years out until someone is willing to provide money to support the research.

[hekma]

nice ....but this is still theoretical right ?

[huangbilly]

This doesn't have many particles (250) and isn't very clear, but I'll work on enhancing the image quality and doing a larger longer simulation.