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I'll take the "agree to disagree" bit re: polywell, merits discussion in another thread.

I agree with pretty much everything you've said there, especially the part about the sigma-delta converters meant for audio.

About chain-reacting fusion - I didn't word it well. Break-even is what I like to ...

For those that are maybe not familiar with UV - I'd think the UV would be the greatest danger of the ionizing sources most new to the tech would have to deal with - your survey meter isn't going to catch it.

It all gets absorbed pretty shallowly in skin, so the volumetric dosage rate will be quite ...

Maybe you could do it the way gamma-ray astronomy is done, and use two detectors lined up, and a coincidence counter?
Place one close at the "aperture" and scan the other around at the "imaging plane" and just accept counts where both go off at the same time (accounting for the distance between the ...

Greetings all!
Apologies in advance for the wall of text to follow. TL;DR version = (30 / M / Computer engineer, graduated 2011)

I'm a computer engineer by trade - currently working flat out at CSIRO's Energy Technology Centre. I'm still partly fresh out of uni, although I did take my sweet time ...