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- From: rfheeter@pppl.gov
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion,sci.answers,news.answers
- Subject: Conventional Fusion FAQ Section 8/11 (Internet Resources)
- Supersedes: <fusion-faq/section8-internet_934723436@rtfm.mit.edu>
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- Summary: Fusion energy represents a promising alternative to
- fossil fuels and nuclear fission for world energy
- production. This FAQ answers Frequently Asked Questions
- (from the sci.physics.fusion newsgroup) about conventional
- areas of fusion energy research. It also provides other
- useful information about the subject. This FAQ does NOT
- discuss unconventional forms of fusion (like Cold Fusion).
- X-Last-Updated: 1995/02/26
- Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu sci.physics.fusion:44326 sci.answers:10877 news.answers:170949
-
- Archive-name: fusion-faq/section8-internet
- Last-modified: 26-Feb-1995
- Posting-frequency: More-or-less-quarterly
- Disclaimer: While this section is still evolving, it should
- be useful to many people, and I encourage you to distribute
- it to anyone who might be interested (and willing to help!!!).
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
- 8. Internet Information Resources
- # This FAQ deals with conventional fusion only, not Cold Fusion. #
-
- Last Revised February 26,1995
- Written by Robert F. Heeter, rfheeter@pppl.gov, unless otherwise cited.
-
- What follows is a listing of many, but not all, of the fusion
- energy/research information resources available via the internet.
-
-
- *** A. Newsgroups:
- sci.physics.fusion (unmoderated)
- sci.physics.plasma (moderated)
- - this latter is for plasma science discussions,
- not for fusion issues.
-
- Sci.physics.fusion postings have been archived on a couple
- of internet sites. For more information see the sections
- on WAIS and Anonymous FTP below.
-
-
- *** B. WAIS (Wide-Area Information Server) Databases
-
- [ Information on the sunsite.unc.edu WAIS database provided
- by Chuck Harrison, harr@netcom.com ]
-
- * sunsite.unc.edu has a searchable WAIS archive of all postings
- on sci.physics.fusion (1989-present). According to Chuck
- Harrison (harr@netcom.com), "WAIS access means it is
- *searchable* on free-text keywords, which means alot when
- you're trying to find old vaguely-recollected postings from
- the 30MB or so of archive. I created the thing because I
- found that hunting through the vm1.nodak.edu [anonymous FTP
- site, see below ] archives by ftp was prohibitively
- time-consuming, so I suspect anyone who *wants* to look in
- the newsgroup history (who knows why? ;-) ) should try
- the WAIS database first if they have access (e.g. swais,
- WWW, gopher, or telnet to sunsite)."
-
- * Accessing the sunsite archives - directions:
- [ The information below is straight from Chuck Harrison ]
-
- 1. If you are directly connected to Internet, you can
- log onto a public WAIS server at the University of North
- Carolina:
-
- %telnet sunsite.unc.edu
- ...
- login: swais
- ...
- TERM = (unknown) vt100
- It takes a minute to load ...
-
- <use ? for online help>
- <use /fusion to locate the fusion-digest source>
- <follow the prompts to select the source and enter your
- keywords for searching>
-
- 2. If you have a "gopher" client, you can use it for WAIS
- access. Many university campuses provide gopher as a
- public information service.
-
- 2a. On most systems, you first select an option
- labeled "Other Systems", then from that menu
- select "WAIS based information". Since each
- gopher site creates its own menus, I can't tell
- you exactly where to go from there.
-
- 2b. If you can gopher to SunSITE, at UNC, navigate
- the menus down thru SunSITE archives..All
- archives..Academic..Physics..Cold-fusion.
- [ Sometimes conventional fusion comes second! ]
-
- 2c. If you can 'telnet' but not 'gopher', you may telnet
- to sunsite.unc.edu and login as 'gopher'. Then follow
- 2a or 2b above.
-
- 3. If you have World Wide Web (WWW) browser, such as
- Mosaic, Cello, or Lynx, you may use the following URL:
- wais://sunsite.unc.edu/fusion-digest (newsgroup archive)
-
- [ More info on other Gopher and WWW resources is given below. ]
-
- 4. If you have a WAIS client on your system (the most common
- ones are "swais" -- character-based, and "xwais" -- for
- X-Windows), use it.
-
-
- *** C. World-Wide Web:
-
- * Much of the public-domain fusion info is now available
- via WWW: At this time, it appears that most of the
- major U.S. fusion research labs have information available
- on the Web, and the amount of available information is
- growing rapidly. Available materials include basic
- fusion information, all sorts of pictures, information
- about each lab's research projects, and more.
-
- * Navigating the Web is a little hard to explain, but for fusion,
- the easiest way to start is to go to the Department of Energy's
- Office of Fusion Energy page. (Address given below.) From here,
- you can (I think) move upwards within DOE to the Office of
- Energy Research, or downwards to many of the fusion labs.
- Alternatively, once you know the "URL" addresses of a lab's WWW
- documents, you can open them up directly with the "Open URL"
- menu command.
-
- * Address (temporary) for this FAQ: http://www.pppl.gov/~rfheeter
-
- * Some of the Principal Fusion / Plasma URL addresses to try:
-
- http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/ (Office of Fusion Energy)
- http://www-plasma.umd.edu (Plasma Science Home Page)
- http://www.pppl.gov/ (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
- http://demo-www.gat.com/ (General Atomics / DIII-D)
- http://www-phys.llnl.gov/X_Div/index.html (Livermore's ICF Group)
- http://www.jet.uk/ (Joint European Torus)
-
- * Additional Web Sites that may be of Interest:
- http://cmfd.univ.trieste.it/cmfd.html (Trieste, Italy, MHD Site)
- http://cmod2.pfc.mit.edu/ (MIT Plasma Fusion Center)
- http://w3fusion.ph.utexas.edu/frc.html (U. Texas Fusion Res. Center)
- http://www.ornl.gov/divisions/fusion_energy.html (ORNL Fusion Division)
-
- (Apologies to those labs I left off this list; I figured this
- would give anyone interested a decent start, and then the rest
- of the labs are easy to get to.)
-
-
- *** D. Gopher:
-
- * Garching (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics):
- The host is uts.ipp-garching.mpg.de (Port: 70)
- Or, from the top: Gopher -> Europe -> Germany
- -> Information Servers in Germany
- -> MPI fuer Plasmaphysik Garching-Gopher
- (and, if you like, -> IPP Information)
-
- According to Art Carlson at Garching:
- "It's probably not very useful, since most of the info,
- press releases and the like, is in German. There is
- other *great stuff* on the computer, like drawings
- of ASDEX-Upgrade and time schedules, but it's not
- publicly available (as far as I know)."
-
- * University of Texas - Austin:
- Gopher -> North America -> USA -> Texas
- -> University of Texas Austin Fusion Studies
- (Machine name is hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
-
- This gopher server has a variety of material regarding
- physics and fusion, including archives of the periodic
- status reports for TFTR, Alcator C-Mod, and TEXT-U.
- This is also accessible via Mosaic with the URL
- gopher://hagar.ph.utexas.edu/1, I believe.
-
- * There are also a large number of Gopher sites which have
- partial or complete archives of the Fusion FAQ postings.
- A Veronica search on Fri, 2 Dec 1994, yielded a large list.
- I would recommend accessing MIT's gopher server and finding
- rtfm.mit.edu, then looking in /pub/usenet/news.answers/fusion-faq.
- If you aren't able to connect to rtfm, you can certainly find
- the fusion faq via your own Veronica search, too.
-
-
- *** E. Anonymous FTP Sites:
- sunsite.unc.edu
- Sunsite also collects the fusion digests archiving
- the sci.physics.fusion, in the directory
- /pub/academic/physics/Cold-fusion.
- The recent digest files are in subdirectories whose
- names begin with "fd," and the older stuff is
- archived by year in files fd89, fd90, etc...
- This material is also available under WAIS (see 8A).
-
- vm1.nodak.edu (134.129.111.1)
- This site has the complete archive of
- the sci.physics.fusion newsgroup, from its inception.
-
- In particular, this FAQ is (will soon be) archived here.
-
- To log in: use the username anonymous, type your
- email address as the password, and then type "cd fusion"
- to get to the fusion directory. Beware: the index is
- large! To download something enter "get" and then
- the name of the file you want.
-
- rtfm.mit.edu
- This is the primary archive for the FAQ, at least in
- the United States. The latest version of a given
- section FAQ crossposted to sci.answers or news.answers
- can be found somewhere in either
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/fusion-faq or
- /pub/usenet/sci.answers/fusion-faq
- (Sections with multiple parts have subdirectories.)
-
- neutrino.nuc.berkeley.edu
- Here you can find fusion-related GIF images.
- As for vm1.nodak.edu, log in anonymously, then cd to
- the directory /pub/fusion, and "get" what you want.
-
- There are other FTP archive sites for the FAQ as well.
- A list of these is included in Section 0, Part 1 (Intro).
-
-
- *** F. LISTSERV ("FTP by email"):
- vm1.nodak.edu also works as a listserver:
-
- "You get a (large) index of the archives by sending
- an email to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu, with a blank
- SUBJECT line, and the "message" 'index fusion'. To get
- any one of these files, you then send to the same address
- the message, e.g., "get fusion 91-00487", etc, according
- to what you're after."
- -- quoting Dieter Britz, BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk
-
- To obtain the FAQ, rtfm.mit.edu also works as a listserver:
-
- If you do not have direct access by WWW or FTP, the
- rtfm.mit.edu site supports "ftp by mail": send a message
- to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following lines
- in it (cut-and-paste if you like):
-
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section0-intro/part1-overview
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section0-intro/part2-outline
- quit
-
- The mail server will send these two introductory
- files to you. You can then use the outline (part2)
- to determine which files you want. You can receive
- any or all of the remaining files by sending another
- message with the relevant lines from the following list:
-
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section0-intro/part3-revisions
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section1-physics
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section2-energy/part1-technical
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section2-energy/part2-enviro
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section5-devices
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section6-results
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section7-education
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section8-internet
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section10-biblio
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/section11-acknowl
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/intro
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/a
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/b
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/c
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/d
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/e
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/f
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/g
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/h
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/i
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/j
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/k
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/l
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/m
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/n
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/o
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/p
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/q
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/r
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/s
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/t
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/u
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/v
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/w
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/x
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/y
- send usenet-by-group/sci.answers/fusion-faq/glossary/z
- quit
-
- (Delete those lines which correspond to files you don't want.)
-
- While there are many files, the full FAQ is not more than
- a megabyte in size, so it is not excessively huge.
- Please note that several files (section9, for instance)
- are omitted from the above list; this is because they
- are still being written and are not yet available.
-
-
-
- *** G. Electronic Bulletins
-
- * TFTR Updates - published occasionally by Rich Hawryluk,
- forwarded automatically to sci.physics.fusion and sci.physics.plasma.
- Also distributed via electronic mailing list.
-
- * Alcator C-Mod Weekly Updates - posted by MIT researchers to
- sci.physics.fusion and sci.physics.plasma periodically.
-
- * TPX Updates - published occasionally by Rob Goldston,
- forwarded automatically to sci.physics.fusion. Also distributed
- via electronic mailing list.
-
-
- *** H. Individuals Willing to Provide Additional Information
-
- Many of the participants on sci.physics.fusion are conventional/hot
- fusion researchers. Many names and email addresses are to be found
- as sources for various slices of the FAQ, and so on. (See the
- acknowledgements for a more-or-less complete list of contributors.)
-
- A few people have expressed a willingness to serve as sources for
- people seeking additional literature, such as laboratory reports,
- pamphlets, and assorted other documents. What follows is a short
- listing:
-
- * Robert F. Heeter, rfheeter@pppl.gov
- - Graduate Student at Princeton -
-
- I have the FAQ, all sorts of archived postings and additional
- information used to generate the FAQ, a bunch of PPPL literature,
- a set of quicktime movies made from television coverage of the
- TFTR D-T runs (and GIFs from the QT movies), and access to just
- about anyone here at PPPL who would have something I don't have.
-
- * Joe T. Chew, jtchew@lbl.gov
- - Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory -
-
- "I've also got a variety of pamphlets put out by this or that
- lab or agency over the years; feel free to give out my address
- as a source for photocopies of such things."
-
-
-