IEC Fusion vs Tokamak Fusion

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.

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News & Politics

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• Tokamak
• IEC
• Fusion
• Bussard

[hekma]

@ FogerRox ... any news on the fusion front ? .... I read in a thread the WB-7 has started working but is not upto par

[FogerRox]

WB-7 saw 1st plasma, yes. By summer testing should be done. talk-polywell dor org is the polywell hub.

[boobtubious]

Dr. Bussard passed away on October 6 this year. RIP good Doctor.

[99stein99]

save boron-11 polywell fusion, save the world :-)

[deusAtheismus]

I really hate the state.

Fuck'em!

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Polywell will never be properly funded. It is too simple, relatively compact and when perfected it will be cheap.

The energy cartells that run this world want a system that is complex and expensive to set up initually and requires large scale centralised power generation which they can monopolise, not smaller scale, cheap power generation units (Like polywell) that all can afford. So the Tokamak fiasco goes on and Polywell no matter how sucessful will remain out in the cold forever.

[hekma]

I know, I tried registering there but guessing from the lack of reply e-mail i was apparently denied

[Ryukacho]

Bussard is rapidly approaching a working fusion model. As soon as he gets something that can run easily (even if it doesn't give off any power), he can tout it around and get a good chunck of funding. From there, he can refine and perfect the design until it archives break even.