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> Those can be made from plastic, according to some old patents

Citation needed

> If you put all the pieces together, you should be able to pull off Boron 11 fusion in a manner similar to the Polywell

Citation needed

> and extract most of the energy directly as high voltage DC.

Citation needed

> You could then use that high voltage DC to power a field effect lifter.

Citation needed

> One day I want my own personal Megawatt box powered by this technology. It should be about the size of a 2 drawer filing cabinet with a small display for setting the output parameters, and a set of 480, 220, 110, 12 volt, and USB-C outputs.

Imagine just handing everyone a Megawatt of energy, to do with as they please. We'd be living in a very different world.

However, for any of the above to be believable, there have to be some reputable sources to look at, no? Why is no one working on this and why isn't there more news of this, when this can just be done by 'putting all the pieces together'?

I am just as enthusiastic as the next guy about progress, but these extraordinary statements require extraordinary evidence IMO

Plastic superconductor -

  https://patents.google.com/patent/US5777292A/en
  https://patents.google.com/patent/US6804105B2/en?inventor=Kevin+P.+Shambrook

Polywell - Fuses Boron 11

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

Extract energy directly

  https://www.helionenergy.com/our-technology/

There are MANY working on fusion, see page 26 of this:

  https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2102/ML21026A315.pdf

Field Effect Lifter - Dedicated Lifters Homepage (2006)

  http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/liftbldr.htm

It was late night, and I didn't feel like pulling all the links together for a some speculation.

Those patents aren’t for superconductors. They claim “a material with a conductivity in excess of 10^6 S/cm.” That’s not too far off from copper at around 6*10^5 S/cm. Pretty good for a polymer if it works I imagine, but not superconducting.

Just because someone names their company “ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS,” doesn’t mean they’ve made a fundamental physics breakthrough.

The actual polaron chains that do the conducting have far, far more conductivity, the challenge is growing them in bulk.

After 1/2 hour of digging, I found a page that mentions conductivity on the order of 10^11 S/cm.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070704235516/http://www.ultrac...

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