IEC Fusion for Dummies v5

Please see updated version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmp1cg3-WDY

A schematic look at electron & ion flow in DR. Bussards WB6 IEC fusion reactor. GO to http://www.emc2fusion.org/
for more information.

Dr Bussard is the former Assistant Director of the US Atomic Energy Commission, he was the father of the US Fusion effort from the 1970's into the 1980's. As the Assistant Dir. of the AEC, Dr. Bussard went to Congress and pushed the fusion research programs in the 70's that developed the Tokamak design.

Dr Bussard now advocates a different design. For the last 11 years he has been working under US Navy contracts, building small test devices.

Why is this important? World oil production peaked in May of 2005. Dr Bussard says for 200 million he can build a proof of concept reactor by about 2011. The ITER reactor in Europe will be finished by 2013, and the concept may be ready for power generation by 2025. The ITER is slated to cost 13.3 billion. More importantly $3 million keeps Dr. Bussard working. The next step is build variations on the 3 foot square WB6, to test tweaks in the design, before building a full size model. DR Bussard envisions the full size reactor to be about 9 foot square.

When the father of modern fusion tells you the Tokamak wont work, he bears listening to. Funny thing about fusion, it occurs naturally in a sphere (the SUN), just like Dr Bussards design. The ITER reactor will try to create fusion in a donut or torus, which doesn't happen in nature. Its been pointed out to me that that is an oversimplification, yes it is, but I like it none the less.

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[PlanckLimit]

Fantastic video FogerRox. Has there been any update on WB-7 since first plasma last winter?

[FogerRox]

WB-7 was ramped up to full power. Peer review was finished at the end of august. We are now... waiting.

[Arightfuckingcunt]

Your all dummies, and yes thats you too!

LOL

[Fullperson]

pretty cool

[embarquo]

Nice video.... Simply explained.

[warrenmcurrier]

very clearly explained. thanks.