• The polywell is a proposed design for a fusion reactor using an electric and magnetic field to heat ions to fusion conditions. The design is related to...
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    beam devices are linear instead of spherical. Other IEC designs, like the polywell, differ largely in the arrangement of the fields used to create the potential...
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  • new type of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusor, called the Polywell, that has a magnetically shielded grid (MaGrid). He founded Energy/Matter...
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    cloud. These include a plasma oscillating device, a Penning trap and the polywell. The technology is relatively immature, however, and many scientific and...
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  • by Robert W. Bussard to develop fusion power with a device called the Polywell EMC2, the first computer-based non-linear editing system, introduced in...
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    gave talks on a reactor similar in design to the fusor, now called the polywell, that he stated would be capable of useful power generation. Most recently...
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    device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television...
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    Mirror Experiment in 1981. Polywell fusion was pioneered by the late Robert W. Bussard in 1995 and funded by the US Navy. Polywell uses inertial electrostatic...
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    D–3He fusion, a number of other reactors have been proposed – the Fusor, Polywell, Focus fusion, and many more, though many of these concepts have fundamental...
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  • General Fusion History of nuclear fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement Polywell Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production TAE Technologies FuseNet: The European...
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  • to avoid the grid-collision problems was made by Robert Bussard in his Polywell design. This uses cusp magnetic field arrangements to produce "virtual...
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    Dynabook TX/68E Toshiba Laptop Computer with HD DVD-ROM drive Polywell Minibox 780G Polywell PC Complete System (Internal Blu-ray Disc & DVD Writer, HD DVD...
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  • to accelerate ions to fusion energies with room temperature equipment Polywell fusion, uses inertial electrostatic confinement to attract and confine...
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    electrostatic confinement (IEC), such as in the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor or the Polywell variation under development by Energy-Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2)...
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    Fusion Reactor which was supported by Lockheed-Martin starting in 2007. Polywell Magnetic mirror point This convexity can be seen in the diagram at the...
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  • Magnetic sail Nuclear pulse propulsion Nuclear thermal rocket Nuclear reactor Polywell Radioisotope thermoelectric generator Spacecraft propulsion Rocket propulsion...
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    are simple enough to build that amateurs have fused atoms using them. Polywell: Attempts to combine magnetic confinement with electrostatic fields, to...
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  • Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...
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  • electrode (PoF, Sanns) IEC with beam/spherical capacitor (STAR, Sesselmann) Polywell (Fusor and Magnetic mirror hybrid) IEC with Penning trap (Penning Fusion...
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  • problems arose. A later device that shares some design with the cusp is the polywell concept of the 1990s. This can be thought of as multiple cusps arranged...
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  • Ventura, Tim (13 December 2019). "Robert Bussard on IEC Fusion Power & The Polywell Reactor". Dialogue & Discourse. Medium. Retrieved 2 August 2023. Li, Stephanie...
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  • Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...
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  • when studying the magnetosphere, magnetic mirrors, biconic cusps and polywells. See Aurora and Ring current It is customary to discuss the direction...
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    the required energies. The best-known examples are the migma, fusor and polywell. When applied to the fusor, Lawson's analysis is used as an argument that...
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  • steady-state plasma confinement under fusion conditions. In January the polywell is presented at Microsoft Research. In August, MIT announces the ARC fusion...
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    Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...
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    Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...
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  • Systems Dense plasma focus Fusion Industry Association General Fusion Polywell Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production Boyle, Alan (30 November 2017)...
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  • the early nineties, theory and experimental work regarding fusors and polywells was published. In response, Todd Rider at MIT developed general models...
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    2025 and generate power as early as 2028 Fusor List of fusor examples Polywell FRX-L FRCHX General Fusion – under development LINUS project "International...
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