Posted on 09/25/2015 6:28:38 PM PDT by ckilmer
I don’t understand a headline claiming near commercial with no discussion of one of the most critical requirements of commercial operations.
Economics. At what cost? Thousands of concepts are technically feasible without being economic and therefore worthless as commercial.
There are not many posts that I read aloud to my wife to get a real laugh out of. That one was very funny.
As you say, the production of enough muons to scale this has never been done with Q > 1.
Kevmo was invincibly ignorant. There was just no way to get through to him whatsoever. He finally lost it on JimRob — on a thread completely unrelated to LENR — and got zotted.
You don’t have to be a physicist....Just look at all the LENR machines running in all the countries around the world ( as promoted and promised by all the fan boys for the last three years)
Oh wait.....
Ya mean like a double A battery?
Sure, why not? Nuclear bombs do this all the time.
“I want to see how bat shit crazy people can get.”
You’ve already seen who they vote for, what more do you need?
“instant electrical energy”
What is that? Are they saying they can produce an electric current directly from the fusion process without going through the heat->steam->generator path?
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Yes and this is about the fourth small very high powered academic or corporate team I’ve heard talk about generating electricity directly from fusion reactions of one type or another.
I disagreed with him but I liked Kevmo and understood where he was coming from.
quite true. for example you could get steady net energy generation but if the cost of doing so is exorbitant—why bother?
But likely the fusion scientists will say while the point is valid—in time costs would fall.
There are not many posts that I read aloud to my wife to get a real laugh out of. That one was very funny.
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your point would be insightful and instructive to everyone on the board—if you were first rate physicist and your dad knew edward teller—or you sat in class taught by Richard Feynman.
The results described are intriguing, but there is no venture of a theoretical guess as to where the muons come from [and, I know it's a popularized article, but muons are not "massive electrons."]
The method of detection is in an instruments journal, not a journal of experimental physics, and as I said before there is no guess as to where the energetic muons come from: "must be a weak interaction," is not good enough. Every sophomore with his first course in quantum mechanics knows that you don't get muons without a weak decay.
At least one part of where the rabbit goes into the hat is in the production of this UDD, the energy required for this is not given...
Ultra high density (metallic) deuterium by catalytic condensation?
Has anyone brought up the possibility of leveraging a working concept to a pure fusion military type application?
If lasers can initiate a small mass (3 mg.), then it may scale larger with mere engineering. No tattletale radiation signature to detect if it is purely deuterium fueled.
Different animal here. See
23 posted on 9/25/2015, 10:35:49 PM by FredZarguna
Sure as hell ain’t my old can....I can hardly spell smoak and firre.
Muon catalyzed cold fusion has been around since the 1950’s, but no one has figured out how to make it net energy positive.
I think the output to input ratio has to be around 10 to 1 to be commercially viable.
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The title says
“double net energy gain has been produced and gain of 20 times is within reach”
Yes, and I know a little bit about this because this has been the plan for converting fusion byproducts into electricity for the Polywell Fusion reactor which I have been keeping up with for the last decade.
When you get high speed charged particles flying out of a nuclear reaction, you can simply put an obstacle in their path, and when they strike it, they will charge it to a high electric potential.
It's a viable system for a reaction that produces energetic charged particles rather than high speed neutrons which can only be converted into heat.
They also have 33 job openings according to their website.
This is a company to pay close attention to.
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This is solid research. Its what makes google cool. I’ll bet starting with some combination of “ small modular fusion direct to electricity” and then refining your keywords —you could find 2-4 other groups doing similiar things.
There are two that come to mind. One you’ll find by googling skunkworks fusion. the other you’ll find by googling new jersey fusion. and maybe a third by googling mit fusion
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