Is this site legit

[Michele]

Can anyone here tell me if this site is a legitamate site for the Navy.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=de8a54494d325223f75b34ff01c7ac08&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=

[VFFSSGT]

Enticing someone to visit a website is one of many types of phishing attempts...

[Michele]

Im sorry VFFSSGT, it was a sincere question. I personally have no reason to entice anyone to this site. dont getting your panties up in a bunch over it.

[TJMAC77SP]

FedBizOps is a legit USG site the advertises contract opportunities but that entry is pretty bizarre. It could be the site was hacked and the entry is someone's idea of a joke

[Michele]

Thankyou my little eunuch, I thought it was a bit odd but wasnt sure.

[forcedj]

I think it's legit. I found the below related article on the plasma wiffle ball at this link:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/01/wb-7-first-plasma.html

Dan
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
WB-7 First Plasma
MSNBC Reports first plasma on the WB-7 Reactor.
Bussard's mantle has been picked up by a small team led by Richard Nebel, who has taken a leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory to head up Bussard's EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. Backed by a Navy contract, Nebel's five-person team is trying to pick up the technology where Bussard left it.

"What's there is interesting, OK?" Nebel told me today. "And the bottom line of it is, what we've been charged to do is reproduce that. Find out if it's real. Find out if or if not all this stuff is what it seems to be."

EMC2 Fusion has built an upgraded model of Bussard's last experimental plasma containment device, which was known as WB-6. (The WB stands for Wiffle Ball, a whimsical reference to the structure of the device.) "We got first plasma yesterday," Nebel said - but he and his colleagues in Santa Fe, N.M., still have a long way to get the WB-7 experiment up to the power levels Bussard was working with.

"We're not out trying to make a big splash on any of this stuff at this point," Nebel said. But he said he's hoping to find out by this spring whether or not Bussard's concept is worth pursuing with a larger demonstration project.

The initial analysis showed that Bussard's data on energy yields were consistent with expectations, Nebel said.

"We don't know for sure whether all that's right," he said, "but it'd be horrible for Mother Nature to give you what you expect to see, and have it all be bogus."

[Michele]

I think it's legit. I found the below related article on the plasma wiffle ball at this link:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/01/wb-7-first-plasma.html

Dan
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
WB-7 First Plasma
MSNBC Reports first plasma on the WB-7 Reactor.
Bussard's mantle has been picked up by a small team led by Richard Nebel, who has taken a leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory to head up Bussard's EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. Backed by a Navy contract, Nebel's five-person team is trying to pick up the technology where Bussard left it.

"What's there is interesting, OK?" Nebel told me today. "And the bottom line of it is, what we've been charged to do is reproduce that. Find out if it's real. Find out if or if not all this stuff is what it seems to be."

EMC2 Fusion has built an upgraded model of Bussard's last experimental plasma containment device, which was known as WB-6. (The WB stands for Wiffle Ball, a whimsical reference to the structure of the device.) "We got first plasma yesterday," Nebel said - but he and his colleagues in Santa Fe, N.M., still have a long way to get the WB-7 experiment up to the power levels Bussard was working with.

"We're not out trying to make a big splash on any of this stuff at this point," Nebel said. But he said he's hoping to find out by this spring whether or not Bussard's concept is worth pursuing with a larger demonstration project.

The initial analysis showed that Bussard's data on energy yields were consistent with expectations, Nebel said.

"We don't know for sure whether all that's right," he said, "but it'd be horrible for Mother Nature to give you what you expect to see, and have it all be bogus."

Yeah, thanks for the info, I have been searching for more info on it and have found a few things that indicate the Navy is looking at it. Thats really great stuff. This is history in the makings. Hope it pans out.

[RandomFT2]

Basically this all boils down to tokamaks which are using magnets to contain a fusion reaction. The chronic problem with the idea is maintaining the temperatures required to sustain the reaction is hard to achieve. Currently France claims to be the furthest along with a working reactor scheduled to be activated around 2030 pending the success of the prototype ITER in a few years.