Posted on 07/07/2021 10:37:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Thanks to a reader for letting me know about the claims of a new company named Electric Fusion Systems who have announced success in creating a compact fusion reactor which they state “heralds a monstrous leap in clean energy technology, not an incremental improvement to existing technology.” (https://electricfusionsystems.com/#tech).
Here is how they describe their reactor:
“We have designed and tested a compact aneutronic fusion reactor capable of delivering tens of kilowatts of power, yet scalable to megawatts. It can deliver constant, distributed energy, anywhere, anytime, without generating greenhouse gases or other waste products, or requiring expensive capital infrastructure or exotic materials, or even any oxygen or solar energy to operate”
Electric Fusion Systems published the following press release on May 25, 2021
New Physics Insights Enable Table-Top Hot Fusion
Offers a clean, safe, and low-cost solution to the world’s energy needs. The implications are profound for all forms of energy generation, while simultaneously mitigating global carbon emissions. Very inexpensive solution to global warming–billions not trillions.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Electric Fusion Systems (EFS) announced today that it has successfully demonstrated fusion reactions in a laboratory setting. EFS is pioneering revolutionary energy technology, using novel fusion physics that does not emit dangerous radiation. The inventors and co-founders, Ken E. Kopp and Ryan S. Wood, have found an easier and safer way to generate fusion chain reactions. Their fusion reactor has been physically reduced in size to a small, portable, safe device, suitable for a wide range of applications, unlike traditional approaches to fusion technology. “We have built a series of experiments that show fusion reactions on a laboratory table top. This is confirmed via neutron detection, gamma and optical spectroscopy that substantiate fusion reactions,” said Kopp.
“What the EFS technology enables is a small, modular, and scalable fusion reactor that is safe and inexpensive to manufacture in a factory, rather than on an installation site. Our patent-pending embodiments create a globally transformative change in energy production, delivering constant, distributed energy, anywhere, anytime, without generating greenhouse gases, other waste products or dangerous radioactivity. This breakthrough technology has the ability to sustainably reduce greenhouse gases and retard climate change,” said Wood.
“We believe we have cracked the code for practical fusion. First, we do not try and contain the sun in a huge reactor as do several other technologies under development, rather, we use a cyclical induction process to harness the energy of fusion chain reactions as an electrical arc, passes through a dense plasma fuel, resulting in direct conversion to electricity. One of the keys is our unique fuel that creates a super dense plasma ten orders of magnitude denser than historically failed approaches,” said Kopp.
“What this means in a practical sense for the global consumer or industry is that EFS technology can lower the cost of electricity by a factor of ten or more for everyone. Currently, our costing models indicate an $8 per megawatt hour (or 0.8 cents per kWh) and we have not yet factored in mass production.” said Wood.
“The billions of dollars invested over the decades into fusion have been for the most part wasted. Our technology will sweep away all of those failed attempts, creating tremendous possibilities along with disruptions. Our climate challenges can be addressed in a truly meaningful way, thereby creating massive improvements in the wellbeing of humanity as a whole. With an aligned investment partner, on a small scale compared to the capital-intensive fusion projects, we can uncork the genie and begin the transformation,” said Wood.
For more information, visit www.electricfusionsystems.com or email: info@electricfusionsystems.com
The company’s website states that they have built two prototype reactors that are in the R&D stage, and are seeking $10 million to continue the R&D process an bring commercial products to market.
What’s your take? This one feels kinda scammy but eventually I’ll take a look.
While I am skeptical about this supposed new fusion technology, I would say there is more likelyhood of fusion technology powering our country than the green wet dream of windmills, solar farms and unicorn farts.
A stink bomb of fake technology on a Rossi pumping site, still using that ecat scam name in their domain.
Look at those fake Fusion pictures in a test tube, laughable...
You can see the electrical leads dropping into the gas within the tube to provide the sparks.
Interesting, but I want to see much more and harder data.
Take your pathological skepticism elsewhere, I'm not interested in such comments.
You’re just specieist against unicornianism.
Is it just around the corner?
“The company’s website states that they have built two prototype reactors that are in the R&D stage, and are seeking $10 million to continue the R&D process an bring commercial products to market.”
If their claims were through, they would have so much money pouring in they wouldn’t know what to do with it.
If they ever get to a point where their device, unhooked from any electric source, batteries, or other external sources of power can keep a 100w light bulb glowing for a week or so, I would gladly invest a whole bunch of money in it.
If anyone fessed up to a pure fusion device, not a fission initiated fusion, one could detonate within an enclosed space repeatedly to keep the steam flowing.
Positron Dynamics is still out there after a decade. Ask NASA.
Aneutronic fusion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Lithium-6–deuterium fusion reaction: an aneutronic fusion reaction, with energy released carried by alpha particles, not neutrons.
Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which very little of the energy released is carried by neutrons. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions release up to 80% of their energy in the form of neutrons, aneutronic reactions release energy in the form of charged particles, typically protons or alpha particles. Successful aneutronic fusion would greatly reduce problems associated with neutron radiation such as damaging ionizing radiation, neutron activation, and requirements for biological shielding, remote handling and safety.
Since it is simpler to convert the energy of charged particles into electrical power than it is to convert energy from uncharged particles, an aneutronic reaction would be attractive for power systems. Some proponents see a potential for dramatic cost reductions by converting energy directly to electricity, as well as in eliminating the radiation from neutrons, which are difficult to shield against.[1][2] However, the conditions required to harness aneutronic fusion are much more extreme than those required for deuterium-tritium fusion being investigated in ITER.
PATENT:
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2009108331A2/en
A hybrid fusion fast fission reactor
Abstract
A hybrid nuclear fusion fast fission reactor is disclosed. The hybrid reactor may include an electrolyte solution comprised of PdCI2 a conductive salt and D2O, an anode of a noble metal, a cathode consisting of a conductive high Z (atomic number greater than 46) material wound around a deuteride-forming actinide nuclear fuel element, a power source providing constant current to the + anode and the - cathode, an applied power profile for fabricating the PdD nanoalloy, and a co-deposition of a PdD nanoalloy on to the high Z cathode winding as well as the nuclear fuel element. A preferred embodiment stablizes the actinide deuteride nuclear fuel element from hydrogen isotope de-loading. A preferred embodiment initiates deuterium-deuterium fusion in the deuterized fuel element and fissioning deuterized fuel element actinides. A preferred embodiment includes surrounding spent nuclear fuel elements with deuteride nuclear fuel elements that will fast fission the spent fuel elements. Another preferred embodiment includes surrounding the deuteride nuclear fuel elements with spent fuel elements as fast neutron reflectors that will also fission.
J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 29 (2019) 95–118
Research Article
Space Application of the GeNIE Hybrid
Fusion–Fission Generator
Lawrence P. Forsley∗
and Pamela A. Mosier-Boss
Global Energy Corporation, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
https://www.fulviofrisone.com/attachments/article/469/VOL%2029..pdf
Abstract
JWK Corporation and Global Energy Corporation (GEC) have spent the past two decades understanding and applying nuclear
reactions in condensed matter with the US Navy and NASA. The Navy cooperation resulted in US Patent, 8,419,919, System and
Method for Generating Particles. The use of this patent to fission uranium is described in a companion paper, Uranium Fission
Using Pd/D Co-deposition. GEC is applying this technology as a non-fissile reactor core suitable for deep-space power under its
second NASA Space Act Agreement. This paper discusses the need for space-based nuclear power, the alternatives, the hybrid
fusion-fast-reactor and the spaceflight readiness testing facilities.
1. Overview
NASA has used solar power for 50 years and nuclear power beginning three years later. Solar powered spacecraft are
generally limited to the inner Solar System out to Mars, with the exception of the 60 foot solar panel span of the JUNO
Jupiter orbiter. Other than the US SNAP-10 fission reactor, each of nearly 40 missions, including New Horizons to
Pluto, were powered by plutonium (238Pu) radioactive thermoelectric generators (RTG). Although run for decades as
seen with the now 41 years extended missions of the two Voyager spacecraft, RTGs provide less than 1 kW of electrical
power (kWe). Meanwhile the Soviets flew 31 fission reactors in low-earth orbit (LEO) each producing up to 10 kWe.
Unfortunately, the Kosmos-954 satellite came down over Northern Canada in 1978 and contaminated 124,000 km2 of
territory. Hence, there’s reluctance to fly fissile material and non-fissile RTGs as used on the Jupiter Galileo, Saturn
Cassini, Pluto New Horizons and Mars Curiosity spacecraft as well as the earlier Voyager and Pioneer Missions
Another need is to develop high Specific Impulse (Isp) propulsion exceeding chemical rocket efficiencies. Various
Hall Effect and Ion Drive systems have flown using solar power. Rather than expel oxidized propellant like a chemical
rocket, these systems ionize and exhaust heavy ions, like xenon. The ions can exit at 40 km/s vs. a chemical rocket
maximum exhaust of 7 km/s. However, it has long been recognized that neither solar nor RTGs can provide sufficient
power for driving larger ion engines for propelling voyages past the asteroid belt. Consequently, NASA has considered
higher power fission reactors for decades including the cancelled 500 kWt (>100 kWe) Project Prometheus [1] during
the mid-2000s and the current 43 kWt (10 kWe) Kilopower Program. The goal is to produce long duration, multi-kW
to multi-MW reactors for planetary probes, planetary surface power and manned nuclear electric propulsion as in the
movie, The Martian [4]. High power space nuclear reactors for thermal nuclear propulsion have also been tested but
not launched.
GEC has had two Space Act Agreements with NASA. The first was a prelude to the NASA Advanced Energy
Conversion Project (AEC) [2,3] under the Radioisotope Power System Program (RPS). The second GEC Space Act
Agreement is to develop a space-ready, non-fissile nuclear generator using thorium. Both Space Acts have been
conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), near Cleveland, OH, and at the Plum Brook Station, 45 miles
away outside Sandusky, Ohio with related work at JWK facilities in San Diego, CA and at the University of Texas,
Austin, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory. GRC developed ion engines, heat pipe thermal transport, advanced
Sterling Engines for power conversion and the KRUSTY fission reactor. Plum Brook provides space flight qualification
facilities for both launch and space conditions. Each of these facilities provides staff, equipment and facilities for GEC
to develop and test a non-fissile, deep space power generator suitable for long duration power and nuclear electric
propulsion.
That line of thinking didn’t work out too well for the French ‘elites’ in 1789.....................
My motivation is because of the people that get scammed on here with these posts to give money. Don’t you feel any guilt about posting these money scams?
Anybody sufficiently gullible not to do the technical due diligence that "gets scammed", deserves what happens to them.
I have sufficient science background to understand what is science and what is not (PhD Chemistry with Nuclear Science minor). You, OTOH, are apparently just a knee-jerk critic.
Get lost!
Ok, talk to you later Mr. “Sufficient” Science Background of a PhD in Chemistry with a Nuclear Science Minor.
LOL..
Uh, NO. Did you not understand "get lost". I mean permanently.
It would be better if you showed that you have some real chops in the subject matter before you start talking scams.
This dude claims to work at EFS and is commenting at LENR Forum.
https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6607-electric-fusion-systems/?postID=158566#post158566
k.e.kopp
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Hello, Thanks so very much for your interest!
While as has been noted, the EFS LEEF approach is not LENR, it is unique.
We have updated our FAQ section with the following information:
HOW DOES EFS’S APPROACH ACHIEVE PRACTICAL FUSION?
The standard of fusion system performance is the Lawson Criterion. The Lawson criterion is a figure of merit used in nuclear fusion research. It compares the rate of energy being generated by fusion reactions within the fusion fuel to the rate of energy losses to the environment. The criterion consists of three basic elements: density, temperature, and time. These elements are used to calculate a value known as the “Triple Product”
EFS’s LEEF Triple Product is favorable for the follow reasons:
1. EFS’s LEEF fuel operates in a supercritical fluid state with a density orders of magnitude higher than any other known approach. LEEF densities are literally off the chart used to document the plethora other approaches.
2. Ion temperatures orders of magnitude higher and measured in MEV as opposed to KEV seen in other approaches result in significant chain reactions during every fusion cycle. Again, LEEF energies are literally off the chart.
3. In other approaches stability of magnetic confinement is the primary driver of the confinement & Fusion burn time. This has been a failure point for other approaches. The LEEF process is cyclical and fusion EMF energy is extracted every cycle via magnetic induction at very high efficiencies exceeding 90% as compared to the ~30% seen in “heat” based extraction used in other approaches. Our induction field by nature is not a steady state field nor should it be lest we suffer the same issues plaguing other programs.
4. In a preignition state our fuel exhibits a modified coulomb barrier by orders of magnitude through a phenomenon known as electron screening.
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