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...

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...

new type of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusor, called the Polywell, that has a magnetically shielded grid (MaGrid). He founded Energy/Matter...

cloud. These include a plasma oscillating device, a Penning trap and the polywell. The technology is relatively immature, however, and many scientific and...

device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television...

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...

General Fusion History of nuclear fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement Polywell Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production TAE Technologies FuseNet: The European...

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...

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...

to accelerate ions to fusion energies with room temperature equipment Polywell fusion, uses inertial electrostatic confinement to attract and confine...

are simple enough to build that amateurs have fused atoms using them. Polywell: Attempts to combine magnetic confinement with electrostatic fields, to...

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...

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...

electrostatic confinement (IEC), such as in the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor or the Polywell variation under development by Energy-Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2)...

to avoid the grid-collision problems was made by Robert Bussard in his Polywell design. This uses cusp magnetic field arrangements to produce "virtual...

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...

Magnetic sail Nuclear pulse propulsion Nuclear thermal rocket Nuclear reactor Polywell Radioisotope thermoelectric generator Spacecraft propulsion Rocket propulsion...

Ventura, Tim (13 December 2019). "Robert Bussard on IEC Fusion Power & The Polywell Reactor". Dialogue & Discourse. Medium. Retrieved 2 August 2023. Li, Stephanie...

Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...

the early nineties, theory and experimental work regarding fusors and polywells was published. In response, Todd Rider at MIT developed general models...

Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...

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...

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...

electrode (PoF, Sanns) IEC with beam/spherical capacitor (STAR, Sesselmann) Polywell (Fusor and Magnetic mirror hybrid) IEC with Penning trap (Penning Fusion...

steady-state plasma confinement under fusion conditions. In January the polywell is presented at Microsoft Research. In August, MIT announces the ARC fusion...

2025 and generate power as early as 2028 Fusor List of fusor examples Polywell FRX-L FRCHX General Fusion – under development LINUS project "International...

Toroidal solenoid Magneto-inertial Magnetized liner Magnetized target Inertial Bubble (acoustic) Laser-driven Ion-driven Electrostatic Fusor Polywell...

Systems Dense plasma focus Fusion Industry Association General Fusion Polywell Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production Boyle, Alan (30 November 2017)...

Field-reversed configurations, the Levitated dipole experiment and the polywell. In tokamaks a set of loops is used, and these are spaced slightly off-center...

when studying the magnetosphere, magnetic mirrors, biconic cusps and polywells. See Aurora and Ring current It is customary to discuss the direction...