Polywell update from May - sounds like things are going really well!

[The Polywell Guy]

56. Polywell Updates (2-3-2014)

Hello,

Polywell Blogger here. I do not post on DU often. So far, your community has been very accepting. I hope you are also skeptical.

The Polywell has not worked or failed - yet. We do not know. We have to try and see. It may fail. There have been several events surrounding the polywell, since August. Here is a quick list:

- In July, "NBC Rock Center" with Brian Williams, interviewed Taylor Wilson about his homemade fusion reactor. His fusor is similar to a polywell.

- In July, the first Polywell PhD Thesis was published

- On October first, the Physics of Plasmas journal published a new polywell paper. This work simulated electron motion inside the machine.

- On October 8th, the 14th annual IEC conference wrapped up in Japan. Several polywell presentations were made available.

- On October 22nd, a Polywell start up in Washington state did its first investor call. I have reviewed/explained some of their work, in detail, on the polywell blog.

- On November 1rst, MIT Colab featured the polywell in it's: "solutions to the climate crisis" conference. Though, people who attended, were not terribly enthusiastic.

- On November 12th, the University of Wisconsin presented its' first Polywell work at the 2013 American Physical Society conference. A young grad student named Jeff, presented some limited simulation work. Hopefully we get a paper out of this.

- On December 27th, The first IEC textbook was published by springier, from the University of Illinois.

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There are also a few new Polywell/fusor groups. The first is the Northwest nuclear consortium. Carl Greinger, a manager at Microsoft, built a fusor in his home in Washington state. 18 high school physics students - Learn & Do Real Nuclear Fusion - on a weekly basis. The group has won several science fairs, and has 4 instructors. The other is Radiant Matter Research - a pair of dutch college students have built a fusor and are on path to building a polywell in the Netherlands. These are small machines with low power but the pair has been at it for a couple of years. Finally, a new amateur (John Dudmesh) has started a project in Brighton, England. He only just started though - very early stages. Lastly, I have two new posts up, check them out:

http://thepolywellblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-serious-need-for-data.html

http://thepolywellblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-have-to-try.html


So far, there is no serious money behind this. I work for free. CSI is working on nothing. The Sydney group has no funding. Carl's organization is small, donations only. Radiant matter is just college students, out of pocket work. John is funding work himself. Despite the hubbub, there is no machinery of government or corporations (aside from the quiet Navy/Iranian effort) behind it. It is grassroots fusion effort, born of the internet.