No sleep til fusion

[wbarnhill]

I was reading this article and thought that some of you might find it interesting as well

http://gizmodo.com/5570817/no-sleep-til-fusion

With every thing Mark Suppes fixes, another thing breaks. We're in his workshop, and he's hunched over, tightening the bolts on a squat tubular machine. This is the fusion reactor Suppes built, and it's not working. Suppes never slows down, moving from one problem to the next with an irrepressible smile. The workshop is a few hundred square feet sub-let from a roboticist friend in a warehouse one floor above a hassidic clothing factory near Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. "I'm starting from nothing, I mean nothing," says Suppes, "There's no reason I should be doing this. It's ridiculous on all levels." What he's doing is building a Bussard Polywell fusion reactor.

 

[Steve]

That has about as much chance for success as this design...

http://www.physorg.com/news168623833.html

General Fusion's reactor design consists of 220 pistons that simultaneously ram a metal sphere. This creates a shock wave inside the sphere, so that plasma rings in the center create a fusion reaction.

 

[EdFred]

O hai!
Fewshun: ur doin it rong.
kansel week force, fewshun werks!

srlsy!

 

[Trapper John]

So, who's got a good heat exchanger design for a fusion reactor?