Screw Gas, make your own sunlight! Mr. Fusion Here we come!

So yet another morning of generating reports has gone by, I came across IEC based Fusion in my last post, Electron Power Systems.

Then I thought, why not look into that idea? it's a viable form of low cost fusion, so what the hell right?

In my mind physicists are people that have energy complexes, they love putting huge amounts of energy into tiny spaces; say like a macho man that drives a really nice car, although science won't let you afford a nice car, but it just might save the planet. (tm)

Enter the Google talk with Doctor Robert W. Bussard, available here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

If you have the hour and thirty six minutes as well as a good command of the English, engineering and physics languages you may just understand what he's saying.

I'm not even going to attempt to digest it at the moment because I am still digesting what he means by B-fields (H/B magentic feilds?) and gyro-radii (radius of rotation of an electron?), of course this could be old time cyclotron & gyrotron & thyratron speak with a hint gaseous electronics experimentation creeping into it. I'm a layperson and this man reminds me of how lay of a layperson I am when it comes to real hardcore physics.

Symantecs aside, he has in essence proven that there's a cheap alternative to Tokomaks, now EPS the guys I posted about earlier are using an electron tube you know things we acclerate neutrons with in large radius cyclotrons to smash atoms? Dr. Bussard goes into the limitations of that configuration in this video (and his paper) due to "Force Equinoxes" as he calls them, with their relation to actually fusing hydrogen, however he uses the same hydrogen boron mix.

The Paper's here:
http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf

I also found this guy:
http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2007/05/polywell-making-well.html

Whom is also on the same quest to understand polywell based IEC's however he mentions this paper on his site:
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/aesj/division/fusion/aesjfnt/Yoshikawa.pdf

Basically this is a huge ass source of neutrons on a small scale, however that device might be able to scale up to power generation standards.

The device itself is simple, based on the orginial design a sphere with a cage inside it to accelerate the ion's into a well utilizing current.

The EMC2 device (bussards company) utilizes magnetic fields to accomplish the "sphere".

I just thought I'd mention it here since Dr. Bussard died in August 2007 but his company EMC^2 has recieved funding, they need 200 Million to produce a radiation free form of sustainable fusion, he even left us with a list of people to do the job.

It's sad to think that had we taken all the money spent on war over the past decade and put it towards this technology, and say oncology we may just have saved the inventor of the worlds most efficient fusion device.

Once he is proved correct I hope that his children will accept his Nobel prize.