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FogerRox

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14. I started leaning to scrubbing about 6 yrs ago
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 08:14 PM
Jun 2013

EMC2 ran Wb-8, and got more money to deal with anomalies near the E-guns. This was predicted by Bussard in a medium sized reactor like WB-8. IT appears they have not gotten to what the contract calls WB-8.1, which would be using WB-8 with Proton Boron11 fuel. The current contract phase appears to be over this September, after which we may hear something.

One thing I'm positive about Wb-8 uses liquid nitrogen to cool the magnets. Weather this is to allow more shots per time period, or longer shots past the 6 milli seconds WB-6 & 7 ran, I dont know. I will guess that Ln2 cooled magnets might allow runs as long as 5-10 seconds, not that thats required.

300 gigs of Polywell P-B11 electricity might get us to the point where dedicated scrubbers could run 24/7 - years on end. Now that we're at 400ppm, the only way to get back to 350ppm is take it out of the air.

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