Author: Dave

In Picture Of WB-7 Bussard Fusion Test Reactor Available I reported that there was a picture of the WB-7 Fusion Test Reactor available. (Well duh). I must sadly report that it is no longer available. Instead EMC2 Fusion has replaced it with a picture of a plasma test of the fusion reactor using Helium gas.…

In my recent post Starting A Fusion Program In Your Home Town I talked about expanding the fusion design and testing environment to increase the rate of progress in the development of a power producing reactor. The lead Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR) experimenter, rnebel, has read that article and has chimed in here with his…

Barry Rubin has an article out at Gloria Center about the destruction of Lebanon. In it he says: The goal of Hizballah, and its Syrian and Iranian backers at present is not the full conquest of Lebanon–something beyond their means–but to control the government so it does nothing they dislike: no strong relations with the…

Except If that hope is succeeding with the mission in Iraq. Althouse reads a letter from Obama. Very good. I ♥ Althouse.

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After Erick’s Post of the Austrian Corporal’s ranting (funny) I thought it would be good to lighten the atmosphere with a different kind of military man. This is Lieutenant Kije by Prokofiev, Suite op. 60 mov. 4 done by the Robert’s College Community Orchestra.

I was looking at a site touting solar energy and remembered an outfit from my hippie days. Zome Works. They have a solar tracker that uses no moving parts. Just liquid in pipes. The liquid is moved by solar energy and because the solar cell holders are balanced it follows the sun. They claim that…

Assume you have 6 coins and flip them randomly (and landing on an edge doesn’t count). How may possible states are there if each coin is identifiable? That would be 64 States. I don’t think that a similar question is what the gentleman in the video has in mind. Notice that he really has to…

It is getting to the point that to make advances in the field of IEC Fusion collaborative efforts will be required due to the range of knowledge required and the cost. The individual with the home built fusor is not a thing of the past by any means, but it is not the wave of…

There is a whole lot to cover on this subject so I’m going to give mostly links and let you make up your own mind. Be sure to read the comments at the links provided as they tend to add information or present countervailing views. Fleet Positions for War. We believe the only successful exit…

Physics World reports that 20 Nobel laureates are asking Bush to work with Congress to restore funding for science that that was cut in the 2008 budget. Two fields financed by the Department of Energy have been particularly badly hit, with funding for high-energy physics falling to $688m — some 12% less than Bush had…

The above image is from a Pew Research Center Report on where the voters are vs where the candidates are. What surprised me most was that the center of gravity in America was Center Right (RINO territory) according to Pew. Althouse of Althouse and Jeralyn Meritt of TalkLeft had a dust up and Jeralyn thinks…

Click on the image for an explanation and more hot images. For a more in depth explanation see World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisited. The image was created by Torulf Greek a biologist from Sweden.

Richard Nebel tells about plans for commercializing the Bussard Fusion Reactor (BFR) at Talk Polywell. Richard starts off discussing who owns the BFR technology and patents. DOD is The Department of Defense. Currently the US Navy is funding the research. …EMC2 owns the patents and the commercialization rights. DOD retains the right to use the…

This is a picture of Obama’s close associate Bill “Bomber” Ayers. He looks so wimpy for a bomber. Let me see if I can decipher the captions. Let me start with the top one. The group was dealing with the past with a kind of amnesia about violent actions. Bill Ayers recollected his adventurous violence…

Real class warfare has always been the upper classes against the masses. Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School in a speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference lays it out: And so, yeah, we will continue the War on Drugs for a while until everybody sees its patent bankruptcy. But, let…

I think what we have here is a telling slip of the tongue. A senior Democrat strategist privy to Obama’s campaign said: “He’s sick of the battle against Clinton. He wants to get stuck into McCain. His people have had to remind him that this thing isn’t over yet and he needs to focus and…

I alway loved the Morse Code opening to news reports. Reminds me of Walter Winchell. In this video clip I believe we have a new parliamentary rule (not found in Roberts Rules of Order). That would be the Respect Rule. Women take precedence over men. Blacks have precedence over whites. And the universal unwritten rule.…

H/T Curmudgeons Corner