:Gives a whole new meaning to 'Ruff Flight':
Bump!
“We create protons as a by-product of our Foundation thruster that are moving fast enough to induce nuclear fusion with Boron,”
I call BS.
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Is this at Costco yet?
Pretty sure I saw one of these in the same aisle as the power washers at Harbor Freight.
It was very expensive. No worries, they have really good sales, though you have to remember it might be tough to get replacement parts since everything at Harbor Freight is made in China.
You’d have to pay to have it delivered, and it won’t be cheap. Probably costs more to deliver than their biggest safe, and they have some big ones.
bttt
I’ve been following aneutronic fusion for a while now.
Adding a proton to Boron eleven can get the described result of three energetic alpha particles, but getting the proton up to the required speed has been a challenge.
Boron comes in two flavors, Boron eleven and Boron ten. Boron ten has a hunger for a loose neutron and makes good shielding material, capturing the neutron and promoting itself into Boron eleven.
Boron eleven then has a hunger for a loose proton, capturing such if possible and “fusing” into carbon as described, which then gloriously disintegrates into three, (count them), alpha particles (Helium nuclei), which have tremendous momentum controllable by magnetic fields.
One problem with its being “aneutronic” however, is that a portion of the reactions, I think less than one percent, can actually spill out a neutron, which then of course gets a little messy.
There is evidence that the next step up the alpha particle assembly ladder, an isotope of nitrogen, may be able to be a bit more stable as it disintegrates into FOUR alpha particles with the addition of a single proton.
The Nitrogen isotope is somewhat rare, but Nitrogen is not.
Fusion, especially aneutronic fusion, could be very useful. Let me know how your research turns out.