This 3D or hand drawn? Either way looks pretty cool.

It's Philo's. I built one from plans by Philo T. Farnsworth. Pretty accurate reproduction. Failed terribly. Still functional though. Just wimpy. This picture was better than the one I built so I used it.
No one wants to see my weld marks and such. I really need to get a good camera. The lab lighting sucks. And the price of stainless steel is getting stupid. So I'm going straight to the polywell project.

Is this a polywell?

I'm going polywell. These photos are for stimulating conversation. The sealed stainless coil designs Bussard was working on are the way to go for now.

I want to overcome the heating problem. His coils fried when taken to max flux. I'm going to use YCBO superconductor cooled with liquid nitrogen. But since I'm doing this in the city I need to put safeguards in place to keep the house from blowing up. The neighbors would probably object. That's why I had to move last fall. I still haven't found an insulator that doesn't crack when I cool it down sufficiently. I can't afford any discontinuities
in heat flow. I learned that lesson last spring.
Clean clean clean....expensive..... Lawsuits, bummer.

No way! That's awesome!

I hope it will be. I need a source of fast and slow thermal neutrons for another project.

I hope to have phase 1 going by September. My lab flooded a couple of months ago and I lost the scintillators and photomultiplier array. So I'm pulling out some solid state detectors. The frequency spectrum is limited but the replacement tubes are 5 to 10k.

I'm going to be honest: I only have a basic understand of what this is and what it's expected results are. Components and things are way over my head, but I'm trying to read up on it. Seems like a neat little device. Best of luck with this, I'm going to want to keep posted on your progress.

I'm going to try to keep the postings up to date. BTW Love the avatar. I'll bet almost no one knows what it really is. That was a cool advertising stunt.

The expected results are a mini Tardis. ha ha.

Haha. Not to be in the shape of as police box...or whatever the thing is.

And yes, high-altitude furniture is...amazing.

And to think it only weighed 3 pounds!!!!!! Awesome.
I'm lookimg to get a weather balloon at some point
and try the high altitude photography myself.

I want to send up some radiation detectors too just
to see what to expect if I get a chance to go.

I want my Tardis to be in a Delorean, ha ha.

I've been wanting to get an R/C blimp and do the same. And if you go up I'd imagine radiation would be pretty bad, lack of atmosphere and all as a filter. Seeing what it looks like from so high up makes me want to go up and snap photos.

Tardis in a DeLorean? That would be...snazzy.

The biggest problem is getting a balance between enough helium
and too much. you have to start out with the bare minimum. Too
much and it expands and pops the balloon. Too little and you
don't get enough lift. It's not really that hard. You just have to
crunch the numbers and pay attention to the solar flux on launch
day. Recovering it is the big problem. I'm thinking about a guided
ballistic return RC vehicle that uses GPS to get it closer to the
launch zone. With GPS modules getting down to the size of
a Basic Stamp that shouldn't be too hard. Designing the reentry
pod will be interesting though. I still have nightmares over the
Genesis mission mishap. So everything's going to be recorded
to a shielded SD card . They're tough. I saw one that was in a
camera being used to record a demolition. The camera was too
close to the explosion but was set on automatic and even took
pictures of it's own destruction. Ringing endorsement for me.
That camera's photo's are somewhere on the net if you look.

Well it's easy to avoid the Genesis mishap: don't install things upsidedown.

I need to find this footage now. Crazy stuff like that, weather-balloons and your project interest the hell out of me.

I had an awesome experience today. A friend of mine who's retiring gave me some new
shielded photomultiplier tubes. And so many over the top priced Analog Devices chips I
almost pissed myself. The Goddess does sometimes look out for her children. Guess I
did something right recently.

OH snap!

Go ahead and watch and I'll keep you posted. I geek therefore I am.

I had an awesome experience today. A friend of mine who's retiring gave me some new
shielded photomultiplier tubes. And so many over the top priced Analog Devices chips I
almost pissed myself. The Goddess does sometimes look out for her children. Guess I
did something right recently.

Main 20 terabyte server caught fire on Monday. Feels like my heart has been ripped out of my chest.