Re:Isaac Asimov's predictions 50 years on
by BugBrother on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:14AM
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Addendum:
General Fusion has gotten tens of millions of dollars from serious investors. The idea that their design would need to accelerate many tons of molten lead to 2 km/s every pulse (i.e. once per second!) is just too ridiculous.
I need to be less polite/trollable.
So you repeat the claim of 2km/s for a vortex in the GF reactor.
A few decimeters irregularity in the bottom of the vortex for the lower plasma injector invalidates that, which you certainly know.
I have no physics background (cs/chemistry), but considering e.g. your insisting on the exact definition of Asimov's prediction above (which I acknowledged in my first comment), I believe you're trolling.
So I'd really like to see other's arguments on this. I'm not going to spend time to get the cobwebs out of the part of my head where old math studies are stored for what likely is a troll. I have lost too much time as it is.
Edit: I don't think you really care, but cavity compression for a 1 m sphere was done 2012. Google for a pdf called "Update on Progress at General Fusion". ("Fusion Power Associates, 2012 Annual Meeting")