{"id":713,"date":"2008-12-17T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=713"},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:19:11","slug":"bussard-fusion-one-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Bussard Fusion One Step Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team working to duplicate Dr. Bussard’s fusion technique has had some results<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

The team has turned in its final report, and it’s been double-checked by a peer-review panel, [team leader Richard] Nebel told me today. Although he couldn’t go into the details, he said the verdict was positive.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing in there that suggests this will not work<\/strong>,” Nebel said. “That’s a very different statement from saying that it will work.”<\/p>\n

By and large, the EMC2 results fit Bussard’s theoretical predictions, Nebel said. That could mean Polywell fusion would actually lead to a power-generating reaction. But based on the 10-month, shoestring-budget experiment, the team can’t rule out the possibility that a different phenomenon is causing the observed effects.<\/p>\n

“If you want to say something absolutely, you have to say there’s no other explanation,” Nebel said. The review board agreed with that conservative assessment, he said.<\/p>\n

The good news, from Nebel’s standpoint, is that the WB-7 experiment hasn’t ruled out the possibility that Polywell fusion could actually serve as a low-cost, long-term energy solution. “If this thing was absolutely dead in the water, we would have found out<\/strong>,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team working to duplicate Dr. Bussard’s fusion technique has had some results (emphasis added): The team has turned in its final report, and it’s been double-checked by a peer-review panel, [team leader Richard] Nebel told me today. Although he couldn’t go into the details, he said the verdict was positive. “There’s nothing in there … Continue reading “Bussard Fusion One Step Closer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,18,25,19],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-bussard","tag-fusion","tag-nebel","tag-polywell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}