Indeed simpler is better, especially when the other approach is know to be hopeless.
Anyway, back to the subject line matter, we haven't seen a reference to an ionized (and thus conductive) laser path electrode as I suggested yet. This might have some potential (pun intended) since collisions with the inner grid, whether of ions when it is negative, or of electrons when it is positive, seem indeed to be the limiting factor when that grid is solid. However, honestly, none of this seems to me as promising as DIESECF (Desorbing vs Incident Excess Surface Electron Catalyzed Fusion) on a (solid) D-permeable cathode, where the slow, and thus large De broglie wavelength, and thus large cross-section, target deuteron D+ walks up to the projectile deuteron behind the mask of a D- (the incident deuteron's mirror image charge synthesized by the fuzzy excess surface electrons). We will soon know if this works... one parameter which we identified as needing optimizing, and which will thus be scanned, is the cathode temperature (too cold = desorbing flow too low, too hot = target cross section too small). Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Virtual inner electrode Fusor? (was Re: Chlorine photo-reactivity) > --- Michel > >> The Elmore-Tuck-Watson machine is the reverse > of a Hirsch Farnsworth machine ... > > To some degree, but Philo did something similar. It > looks like Tom Ligon is more optimistic than I am > about the ultimate prospects, even if he got some of > the details blurred. He is a former employee of > Bussard. > > That device - or more likely a derivative or further > hybrid - is one which, had 1/10 or even 1/100 of the > hot fusion budget been allocated, might have made it > to breakeven by now ... while ITER and the follow-ons > languish in blinding mediocrity, costing far too much > to ever be useful. Why cant they see it is hopeless? > > It is not too late for the simpler approach ... but it > is very difficult to 'just say no' to the likes of > MIT, Princeton and the other tin-cup geniuses, since > they are playing dual roles - musical-chairs - in the > management of DoE. > > Jones >
