Tom Ligon - 1/2/2007 9:05 AMThere actually is a much smaller investment to make first, a few million to build WB-7 and WB-8. These would be the same basic size as WB-6, one a truncated cube, the other a truncated dodecahedron. The main intent is to figure out if the 12-magnet model works enough better than the 6-magnet model to be worth fiddling with on the big machine. In the process, it should be possible to try for considerably extended run time. That should cost a few million.
Tony Rusi - 16/2/2007 12:23 PMOne of the possibilities that Bussard specifcally mentioned was a horizontal take off spaceplace that was single stage to low earth orbit with this clean fusion technology. You call it clean because his proton-boron fuel combination produces no neutrons....