On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:54:15 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:23:52 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Somebody that I know who knows somebody that knows somebody who knows
somebody else (wink wink - nudge nudge) has an AK that, um..."works"
if you get my drift. He had it up at the Turkey Shoot the other day -
man, it still shoots sweet as can be.

That's one fine weapon.

Certainly a fine boat defense weapon... :-)

Especially if it, um, "works".

PS, have you ever heard of these guys?

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

Yep.

The concept has been around for a while. Based on what I know, it
seems like an awful lot of work to produce a rather insignificant
increase in output - the input/output energy ratio if you will.

I mean if you have to power the thing with a nuclear reactor to get a
reactors worth of output plus 20% what's the point?

Unless there is some significant and major development in containment
technology, this is only an interesting experiment. And while it may
advance the fusion power knowledge base, which is a good thing (I'm
all for research and development), I still think that the only usable
fusion power in quantities to power everything and anything, will be
free space fusion power contained by magnetic bottles rather than
physical bottles and that is only going to be done in space - not here
on Earth where it is needed.

It's a Holy Grail type search. I'm all for going for it, but I'm not
holding out hope we'll get there in the next 50 years.