Polywell Update 1 May 2011
Finally there is some news about Polywell Fusion progress. From recovery.gov here is the essential news.
Projects and Jobs InformationSo figure another year before the final report. In the mean time testing is ongoing.
Project Title Federal Contract
Project Status More than 50% Completed
Final Project Report Submitted No
Project Activities Description Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
Quarterly Activities/Project Description As of 1Q/2011, the WB-8 device operates as designed and it is generating positive results. EMC2 is planning to conduct comprehensive experiments on WB-8 in the next 9-12 months based on the current contract funding schedule.
Jobs Created 11.00
Description of Jobs Created two full time plasma physicists. one full time equivalent electrical engineer.
There is a funny in the report. Note: jobs created = 11 and actual jobs created (as provided by a description of the jobs) is 3. Government accounting.
If you would like a fuller discussion of what this report means may I suggest a visit to the Talk Polywell board.
Cross Posted at Classical Values
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1 comment:
Ok, good new and bad news.
The bad news is this represents a schedule slip from earlier expectations, we expected that the experimental series would be completed by now.
The cause of the delay could be either good news or bad news. Maybe it took longer to make things work, or maybe they discovered something good, but will take unanticipated time to explore.
Well, fingers crossed.
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