I wouldn't believe that for a moment, and Google probably didn't either.
It's interesting how the internet enables wishful thinking like this. You'd have thought the dearth of peer reviewed papers about Polywell would have been a clue, but true believers admit no impediment to their belief.
There are good theoretical reasons to believe IEC fusion cannot work on advanced fuels, reasons that HAVE appeared in the peer reviewed literature.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Would it be so terrible to do a little more research? If only to honor Dr Bussard's (RIP) memory? Google's not hurting for cash right now?
"When a physicist tells you something is possible you should believe him, when a physicist tells you something is impossible you should doubt him."
I forget who said that, but it holds. Lots of things had "good theoretical reasons" for not working until someone figured out how. Planes? Visiting the Moon?
If someone is making a claim, especially a remarkable claim, it is their responsibility to provide evidence for their claim. If they cannot, or if their evidence is such that it cannot pass peer review, something stinks, and one should be highly skeptical.
This is not a case of "no one has shown X, therefore X should be dismissed". It's "P has claimed X, but has not shown evidence to justify their claim, therefore their claim should not be believed." If someone holds a position, presumably they had a good reason to do that, and one can ask for that reasoning and evidence (and ask that that reasoning and evidence be verified by peer review.)
Dude, Dr. Bussard died not long after the video I linked to, so maybe you don't realize you're kind of disparaging a man who's no longer here to defend himself.
In any event, I didn't mean to upset you. I'm not a physicist, nor some sort of "true believer", I just think Dr. Bussard's ideas deserve more research before we can rule them out so definitively. Maybe I'm a gullible dufus. On the Internet.
It's interesting how the internet enables wishful thinking like this. You'd have thought the dearth of peer reviewed papers about Polywell would have been a clue, but true believers admit no impediment to their belief.
There are good theoretical reasons to believe IEC fusion cannot work on advanced fuels, reasons that HAVE appeared in the peer reviewed literature.