[lbo-talk] Cheap, safe, clean fusion ...

Dwayne Monroe idoru345 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 6 12:14:35 PDT 2007


from the EETimes article:

When all six electromagnets are energized, the magnetic fields meld into a nearly perfect sphere. Electrons are injected into the sphere to create a superdense core of highly negative charge. Given enough electrons, the electrical field can be made strong enough to induce fusion in selected particles. Positively charged protons and boron-11 ions are injected into the sphere and are quickly accelerated into the center of the electron ball by its high negative charge. Protons and boron ions that overshoot the center are pulled back with an oscillatory action of a thousand or more cycles.

If the negative charge of the core is high enough, the positively charged particles will accelerate enough during their oscillations to induce a fusion reaction. The boron-11 collides with a proton to create carbon-12, which then splits into a helium nucleus and a beryllium nucleus. The beryllium particle splits into two more helium nuclei, resulting in a total of three helium nuclei, each of which has almost 3 million electron volts of energy. The force of the final splitting step drives the helium nuclei out of the center of the reactor, where a surrounding electrical grid directly dissipates their energy by generating electricity at a claimed efficiency of 95 percent.

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Of course, this method will have to be extensively tested to verify its usefulness and efficiency (for ex. is it just [just!] a fancy helium nuclei factory?).

Even so, at first glance it has an elegance that excites me.

.d.



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