Quote from: MarkE on May 12, 2014, 04:33:30 AM
chrisC 200W might as well be the extent of the universe.  The incredible barrier that Hope Girl lied when she said they had broken it is the barrier between under unity and over unity.  Actually crossing that barrier would be a monumental development.  It means the difference between conservative systems and those with infinite COP.  FTW hasn't crossed it.  FTW's efficiency hasn't even matched ordinary off the shelf equipment.  Hope Girl is a scam artist.

@MarkE
Personally, I think HopeGirl has no business writing about technical stuff she does not understand herself and making herself look real silly with all the written promises of a working device. No professional organization would ever do something like that to attract legions of trigger happy lawyers.  That said, James R worked his butts off trying to reproduce what may seemed to be a working WITTs device. I believe he is missing some pieces not disclosed by T.T - the difference between O.U and not. Wait and see.
As to the cheap shots angled at FTW for defrauding people so they can have an exotic holiday afar? Seriously, I don't equate exotic holidays with getting stomach flu, living with flies and donkeys. Get real. FTW may be naive in the way they have chosen to do things their own way but that's their choice.
cheers
chrisC

Again, you are assuming that Witts ever had an OU device. There is nothing to support that.

Quote from: memoryman on May 12, 2014, 04:26:44 PM
Again, you are assuming that Witts ever had an OU device. There is nothing to support that.

Are you having memory loss, Mr. Memoryman? Did I not say, 'seemed'?
cheers,
chrisC

No Chris, my memory is fine. In what way did it SEEM to be a working OU device? Does Witts use them to power their facilities? Did they show it self-looped for days? I am just curious. It SEEMS to me that Witts are frauds.

Quote from: nickec on May 12, 2014, 02:51:54 PM
I feel compelled to point out that a great deal of effort and capital, indeed enormous effort and capital, has been expended to design, test, and construct fusion power systems.  I refer here to magnetic confinement fusion.

Is it unfair to compare these MCF efforts to QEG trials and tribulations?  Perhaps.  Yet in many ways they may be reasonably compared.

I do not claim that the average QEG advocate/experimenter has the science chops of the average ITER employee.  I only wish to point out that MCF and QEG both ask for money and show, as yet, little, or in the eyes of some observers, no results.

I apologize for neither the MCF camp nor the QEG camp.

The choice to risk time and money, raised by taxes, donations, or from personal coffers remains problematic yet essential.

I hope that we all appreciate this forum and other forums where our views and critiques may be frankly shared.  Let us all wish that progress will result from the actions we take thanks to our interactions.

We know that fusion as a process actually works.  What we haven't been able to do is make fusion happen in a way that is net positive without being a bomb.  If someone were to declare that they had a working hot fusion reactor that they were going to open source, just give them money and then turned up empty handed like FTW I would be equally critical.