Talk:Robert W. Bussard

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[edit] More information

Two semi-articles worth using as information for further article development: http://www.randi.org/forumlive/showpost.php?s=e665007961e36e93001813d66ec9a4ea&p=1722023

http://www.fusor.net/board/view.php?site=fusor&bn=fusor_announce&key=1143684406

Note to self:

Toroid 3   5,174,945       Full-Text       Controlled thermonuclear fusion power apparatus and method
Fusor  4        5,160,695       Full-Text       Method and apparatus for creating and controlling nuclear fusion reactions
Toroid 5        5,049,350       Full-Text       Controlled thermonuclear fusion power apparatus and method
Toroid 6        5,019,321       Full-Text       Modular fusion power apparatus using disposable core
Toroid 7        4,859,399       Full-Text       Modular fusion power apparatus using disposable core
Toroid 8        4,836,972       Full-Text       Controlled thermonuclear fusion device and method

- Omegatron 03:04, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Link

The link to "The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor: How To Make It Work" does not appear to work anymore. Does anyone have a new source for this document? James A. Stewart 00:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

fixed. an alternative is: http://www.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0001095/Fusion.0a Kevin Baastalk 20:28, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new-ish video

2006-11-09 video of Bussard discussing the design of the reactor in detail and going into some history

[edit] Interstellar gas

"most interstellar hydrogen exists in an ionized state"

Doesn't that mean "protons"? If so, shouldn't it be called "interstellar plasma"? — Omegatron 22:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More information

This article could be expanded a lot.

PhD thesis: Energy principle for the stability of hydromagnetic plasmas in equilibrium motion, 125 pp 1961 http://w3.pppl.gov/gradprogram/Misc/Thesis-59.htmlOmegatron 18:00, 25 November 2006 (UTC)