A schematic look at electron & ion flow in DR. Bussards WB6 IEC/Polywell fusion reactor. GO to http://www.emc2fusion.org/
for more information.
Dr Bussard is the former Assistant Director of the U...
A schematic look at electron & ion flow in DR. Bussards WB6 IEC/Polywell 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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The diagram of the electrons moving through the field isn't ENTIRELY correct. The force on an electron in a magnetic field is V x B, where V and B are the velocity and magnetic field vectors, respectively: electrons will actually spiral about lines that trace through the vector field B.
Poison, thanks. Yes the detail in the video is very simple or non existant. I hope to working with Dr NEbel on a new video to be released late this year.
Thank you! Great video, excellent animations. I have thought about the possibility of building one of these. It's really simple and safe in operation, from what I understand from Dr. Bussard's descriptions. He said the distance between the rings is really important though, so I assume exact dimensions of the 6 tori and their placement, needs to be calculated correctly and constructed accurately.
You know Dr. Bussard passed away recently? The world has lost another great hero of our time.
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The force on an electron in a magnetic field is V x B, where V and B are the velocity and magnetic field vectors, respectively: electrons will actually spiral about lines that trace through the vector field B.
Roger.
LOL
You know Dr. Bussard passed away recently? The world has lost another great hero of our time.
I say go for it.
I expect Dr Nebel to build WB-8, to see if its net power, which has only been done on one machine ever in history.