...that the future will be a from-the-ground-up affair: the Makers Faire, sponsored by the publishers of "Make" magazine:
As important as tinkering has been to the nation’s past, it could become a much bigger deal before long, said David Pescovitz, a research director at the Institute for the Future, a consultancy in Silicon Valley. A new report from the institute argues that the makers could force enormous changes in the ways that goods and services are designed and manufactured. The renewed urge to tinker, along with flexible manufacturing technologies, could shift production from big companies and stores to communities of makers and consumers, Mr. Pescovitz said.
Just a thought, but using high voltage to produce fusion might be like attempting to do therapy physics using an X-ray machine. Therapy physics instead uses small linear accelerators, about 18 inches long, to achieve acceleration. These make use of standing waves or traveling waves. I wonder if a spherical traveling wave moving inwardly could be created in a spherical fusor chamber? The wave could then compress the fuel as it accelerates it toward the center of the chamber. Again, just a thought.
Posted by: C Herring | July 08, 2008 at 10:37 AM