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Polywell fusion reactors

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I've recently been reading about these:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

 

They're a fusion reactor which is a hybrid of a few different ideas including inertial electrostatic confinement and magnetic confinement (if I got that right). They sound substantially less complicated than the much more heavily researched Tokamak design and also carry with them the potential for commercial power production.

 

A quote from someone involved in some recent Navy research into this concept:

 

Dr Richard Nebel commented that "There's nothing in there [the research] that suggests this will not work," but "that's a very different statement from saying that it will work."

 

Spoken like a true scientist, Dr. Nebel

We need to go to the moon and mine that helium 3, aneutronic fusion is the future! Has to be true, being able to generate clean power with out part of it being difficult is just too good to be true :doh:

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