Old video from Mark Suppes fusor attempt

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Old video from Mark Suppes fusor attempt

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back in 2010 or thereabout, Mark Suppes made a national splash in a funded effort in New York city. He, of course, failed to beat the odds at improving the fusor and soon sold most of his stuff in the trading post here. He never posted here much, but here is a video of him being interviewed.

Got to the middle of the page for his video on Vimeo.

https://inchbyinch.de/inch25/fusioneer/

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Re: Old video from Mark Suppes fusor attempt

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"Why is nobody working on the Bussard Reactor?"

"Because It's so new."

Hmmm...

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Re: Old video from Mark Suppes fusor attempt

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The Navy spent a gang o' bucks on the polywell device both while Bussard was alive and well after his passing. Bussard moved his whole effort from Virginia to San Diego, CA so that he could help ramrod the Navy effort. Their final report was in general, somewhat negative, but I think the fact that the funding money ran out was the main reason for the failure to continue in the effort.

A true Bussard device is far, far beyond any amateur effort to detect any fusion. The stopping point is the complex magnetic field strength needed to make it go. There is or was a site dedicated to the Bussard device. Alas, much wind over the decks with no amateur successful fusion. Pretty much "armchair theorizing" around the device with some false starts. It just demands far too much expense and effort at the amateur level.

A good search point is

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+bus ... e&ie=UTF-8

As we know, most who try or claim to want to try the far more simple fusor here fail at a rather tremendous rate. Many once arrived here and some even started to "do", but found the doing too expensive or too taxing. Lately, most who arrive here stay active and at least make the plasma club.
The rest tend to actually do fusion and stick with us. This is very refreshing.

All the multi-million dollar efforts like Lockheed and numerous others that made a splash with predictions are not really living up to their bold timelines. Will they join Mark Suppes, but be in the super big failure class?

When the billion dollar class fails they just move on to the next big thing in fusion touting all that they have learned for the billions spent.

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Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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