I have been spending what time I’ve had available over the past month or so trying to edit the “Bahnson Lab Footage” so that I could put it on the web, and now I see that somebody has already done that. This is a five-minute condensation of nearly an hour of silent, 8 (or 16)mm […]
Dr. Robert Bussard has been experimenting with variations on the Farnsworth Fusor for at least two decades. His recent lecture to employees at Google was presented here. Now we learn that Dr. Bussard’s latest effort has been recognized with the International Academy of Science “Outstanding Technology of the Year” award for 2006. The latest incarnation
I see the world is all fired up this morning about the ITER, the International Thermonuclear Test Reactor that will combine all the of world’s vast knowledge about Tokomak design into one giant money pit somewhere in France. Sorta reminds me of “The Machine” in the movie “Contact:” No single nation could afford to build
Dr. Robert Bussard recently visited the Googleplex to discuss his latest developments in controlled nuclear fusion: Or click here for a larger-screen version: Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really) Description: Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT This is not your father’s fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional
Finding verifiable information Townsend Brown’s visits to Europe in the mid 1950s is just one of the many challenges this enterprise faces. Here, we wonder if Brown was somehow affiliated with UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, aka GCHQ. Recently we have been discussing in the forums Dr. Browns various travels through England and France in the
“Another country heard from” was one of Townsend Brown’s favorite expressions. According to an old associate who heard him use it any number of times, “the expression usually meant that someone else had chimed in who you didn’t expect to hear from; the phrase ‘another country heard from’ told you immediately what was going on without more explanations.”
