[ExI] A step closer or another one for the dustbin?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 6:19 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> >>…
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/10/30/a-breakthrough-in-american-energy-dominance-us-navy-patents-compact-fusion-reactor/
>
>
> >…Disinformation campaign - and apparently probably known to its intended
> targets.
>
> Agree.  Containing plasma is not something likely to be discovered by some
> maverick inventor.
>

Rather, this is a guy with the full backing of the US Navy - and given his
prior patents plus this, it's a disinformation campaign.

We can take half a glance at the sketches and see this isn’t going to
> contain plasma.
>

Due to the potential to leak between the containing elements, right?  If
they could get a strong enough magnetic field to keep the plasma out of the
cracks, then maybe...but evidence suggests they haven't.  (And even if this
was legit, the patent is still "my calculations suggest that" rather than
saying they had actually done it.)
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