--- Michel > The Elmore-Tuck-Watson machine is the reverse of a Hirsch Farnsworth machine ...
To some degree, but Philo did something similar. It looks like Tom Ligon is more optimistic than I am about the ultimate prospects, even if he got some of the details blurred. He is a former employee of Bussard. That device - or more likely a derivative or further hybrid - is one which, had 1/10 or even 1/100 of the hot fusion budget been allocated, might have made it to breakeven by now ... while ITER and the follow-ons languish in blinding mediocrity, costing far too much to ever be useful. Why cant they see it is hopeless? It is not too late for the simpler approach ... but it is very difficult to 'just say no' to the likes of MIT, Princeton and the other tin-cup geniuses, since they are playing dual roles - musical-chairs - in the management of DoE. Jones
