Caught the video, and while I don't have sufficient physics or math to certify what he's talking about, I have been following the plasm fusion field for years and am glad that someone has followed up on the fusor concept.
However one of the things that Dr. Bussard points out is that he is unable to simulate the experiment due to a lack of computational resources, in particular he states that he had one contracter bail in the middle of the contract when he realized that the problem could not be computed on a "reasonable budget" with existing resources.
I think there may be a way around this by using the parallel approach initially setup by Seti and now called 'BOINC'.
Can I suggest that some of the really smart numerics guys take a hard look at the processing model and potential resources available by BOINC to see if it's a sufficiently good fit to apply in order to try simulating some runs, perhaps initially targetting the model (WB6?) that gave the high fusion counts? Can it be done? Because if it can, then it *should* be done.
I know that I'd be willing to switch my BOINC processing cycles over to such a simulation, and I doubt that I'd be alone in doing so. Heck, I'd even be willing to help out on the non-numerical coding end of things...
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Caught the video, and while I don't have sufficient physics or math to certify what he's talking about, I have been following the plasm fusion field for years and am glad that someone has followed up on the fusor concept.
However one of the things that Dr. Bussard points out is that he is unable to simulate the experiment due to a lack of computational resources, in particular he states that he had one contracter bail in the middle of the contract when he realized that the problem could not be computed on a "reasonable budget" with existing resources.
I think there may be a way around this by using the parallel approach initially setup by Seti and now called 'BOINC'.
Can I suggest that some of the really smart numerics guys take a hard look at the processing model and potential resources available by BOINC to see if it's a sufficiently good fit to apply in order to try simulating some runs, perhaps initially targetting the model (WB6?) that gave the high fusion counts? Can it be done? Because if it can, then it *should* be done.
I know that I'd be willing to switch my BOINC processing cycles over to such a simulation, and I doubt that I'd be alone in doing so. Heck, I'd even be willing to help out on the non-numerical coding end of things...
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ - for reference...