Posted by: Paul M
« on: July 10, 2013, 09:15:46 AM »It has all the hallmarks of what my supervisor called "accentuating the positive and downplaying the negative" at the end of the day.
At the coffee discussion I brought it up and generally speaking most of the comments were of the doubtful nature. It was questioned even if it would work theoretically due to the fact getting sufficient compression to bring a plasma to ignition conditions seems doubtful. Mind you this is what that part of NASA is mandated to explore so principally there is nothing wrong with them supporting the research. You never know if something viable will come out of some off the wall study.
At the coffee discussion I brought it up and generally speaking most of the comments were of the doubtful nature. It was questioned even if it would work theoretically due to the fact getting sufficient compression to bring a plasma to ignition conditions seems doubtful. Mind you this is what that part of NASA is mandated to explore so principally there is nothing wrong with them supporting the research. You never know if something viable will come out of some off the wall study.