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What Is Fusion and How Do You Get It to Work?
I have downloaded all of his videos. I would have liked to have him as an instructor in college.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 02/22/2020 2:19:41 PM PST by Jonty30
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.
(Excerpt) Read more at newatlas.com ...
Can anyone confirm if this version
is low or no neutron radiation?
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Even if we could generate all the electricity we wanted very cheaply, which would be wonderful, petroleum is essential to modern society in many other ways than just burning for electricity.
AND....for all you EV lovers, most of the environmental negatives of EVs would still exist. Even free electricity could not change that.
lol
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
One laser ionizes the end face of a solid fuel cylindrical pellet (hydrogen ice) to form a plasma, and accelerates the protons toward an ionized target of boron. The fast moving protons strike the slow boron ions composing the target; and, fuse to form a highly excited carbon isotope, which immediately decomposes to three helium ions (alpha particles.)
The second laser interacts with one of two metallic plates forming a capacitor, the two plates being shorted by two single-turn windings, one at each end of the hydrogen pellet. The laser-on-plate interaction liberates electrons, which travel as a neutralizing electrical current in the metallic loops located at each end of the pellet, so as to equalize the induced voltage.
The currents in the pair of loops serve to generate a solenoidal magnetic field, which induces a counter-current in the enclosed plasma. The plasma counter-current generated magnetic field bucks the field of the current carrying loops. This pinches the ends of the plasma channel shut and highly compresses the enclosed plasma.
“AND....for all you EV lovers, most of the environmental negatives of EVs would still exist. Even free electricity could not change that.”
ROTFLMAO!
The statement within the article that
...cascading avalanche of reactions is an essential step toward the ultimate goal: reaping far more energy from the reaction than you put in.
I would think that, that statement right there is the "Achilles heel" in their research. Or maybe I'm way off.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Reverse of a particle accelerator. The alpha particles (positively charged) are generated already moving fast, and are brought to a halt by a bucking high positive voltage. The output in the external circuit is megavolts at a low electron current, the flow required to neutralize the alpha particles. The neutral helium is then drawn off by vacuum pumps.
Low neutron—some X-ray—some gamma. Water jacket with a dissolved boron compound, plus a dense metal shield will absorb the radiation from side reactions.
Got it. In my college days I worked on a research project relating to MHD. Great idea and based upon some validated theory(ies) but very difficult to get the particles to follow the path we wanted them to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamics
I hope this new approach works, but fusion always seems to be a pipe dream - pushing an area we may not completely have a full grasp of.
The only really effective and thermodynamically valid replacement for carbon based fossil fuels is some form of nuclear power. There are actually practical alternatives now to the pressurized water uranium fueled reactors from the 60’s. Small scale Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) using Thorium fuel could be commercially produced in less than 10 years with a serious effort by government and industry.
I’ve sometimes imagined what would happen if Elon Musk developed his own strategy to build an underground MSR reactor and generator that would replace the gasoline storage tanks at gas stations. He could set up his own network of recharging stations for EVs and solve the whole problem of powering these vehicles from electricity generated by a coal or gas fired plant.
I honestly wasn’t going that deep into it, I was just saying I wouldn’t bet against Elon Musk. If your vid disproves that ok, but I don’t have an hour to spend watching it.
It would be a game changer, if it works as described.
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“I’m no scientist,”
I can believe that!
Interesting. Definitely a very new and different approach to both initiation and confinement. Extraction of electrical energy directly by magnetohydrodynamics applied to the generated alpha particles is VERY exciting. I look forward to hearing more about this tech.
Yeah, but what about their statement “...reaping far more energy from the reaction than you put in.”
Doesn’t that seam impossible?
Liberals need to get a running start on how to make this sound scary so they can ban it.
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