• 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...
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    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...
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  • new type of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusor, called the Polywell, that has a magnetically shielded grid (MaGrid). He founded Energy/Matter...
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    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...
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    cloud. These include a plasma oscillating device, a Penning trap and the polywell. The technology is relatively immature, however, and many scientific and...
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    device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television...
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  • 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...
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  • General Fusion History of nuclear fusion Inertial electrostatic confinement Polywell Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production TAE Technologies FuseNet: The European...
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    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...
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  • to accelerate ions to fusion energies with room temperature equipment Polywell fusion, uses inertial electrostatic confinement to attract and confine...
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