Next Big Future: Bussard EMC2 Fusion Project Publishes on Arxiv Wit...

5/10/24

7:53 AM

A brief search yields some basic info: 1) Discover magazine 2011 article ( last updated in 2023)

and 2) is a video ( actually a podcast), which is called "The Fusion Podcast - Dr Jaeyoung Park". It doesn't have that many views, and it's over 5 years old. Dr. Park is connected to Bussard's Polywell Fusion device and EMC Corporation. There might be more info out there, but it may be wrapped up in confidentialty, or mystery ( for want of a better term).





8:00 update end, 6:03 AM post follows:

It has been awhile since I've looked at Bussard's fusion device. The chief advantage of the Polywell Technique is that it doesn't get hot. If it gets hot, it fails. My recollection is that this wasn't the problem with Polywell Fusion. Seems like they were losing too many electrons that it needed in order to make the "well" deep enough for fusion to occur.

I'm scanning my posts on the subject, and will update this post accordingly, provided that I find anything interesting. At the moment, I don't recall what the results were on the last batch of experiments, and when those experiments occurred.



end update of 6/8/14 post:



6/8/14:

Next Big Future: Bussard EMC2 Fusion Project Publishes on Arxiv Wit...: EMC2 Fusion reports experimental results validating the concept that plasma confinement is enhanced in a magnetic cusp configuration when b...

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I've been kinda sorta watching Polywell for at least 7 years.  As with everything else that seems promising, it gets little support.