inertial electrostatic confinement fusion

[Serpo]

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This is not your father's fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that's been made new. While the international community debates the fate of the politically-turmoiled $12 billion ITER (an experimental thermonuclear reactor), simple IEC reactors are being built as high-school science fair projects. Dr. Robert Bussard, former Asst. Director of the Atomic Energy Commission and founder of Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2), has spent 17 years perfecting IEC, a fusion process that converts hydrogen and boron directly into electricity producing helium as the only waste product. Most of this work was funded by the Department of Defense, the details of which have been under seal... until now. Dr. Bussard will discuss his recent results and details of this potentially world-altering technology, whose conception dates back as far as 1924, and even includes a reactor design by Philo T. Farnsworth (inventor of the scanning television). Can a 100 MW fusion reactor be built for less than Google's annual electricity bill? Come see what's possible when you think outside the thermonuclear box and ignore the herd. Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT



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[Awoke]

Just curious: Why did you post the text body three times with no paragraphs?

[kregener]

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[Serpo]

Just curious: Why did you post the text body three times with no paragraphs?

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[gunDriller]

Can a 100 MW fusion reactor be built for less than Google's annual electricity bill? Come see what's possible when you think outside the thermonuclear box and ignore the herd. Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT

the whole ballgame with fusion is creating a "petri dish" for the reaction, very very high temperature & pressure. then they drop in a piece of special hydrogen, i think it's gold-plated, it's a different isotope also.

in the past they have used a laser to help create the birth conditions for fusion, and it is sort of interesting.

BUT it uses up a HUGE amount of energy. the lasers they use to raise the temperature and pressure have power supplies that are not very efficient, i.e. they create a lot of heat.

so then the question becomes - how do they harness the energy released in the fusion reaction ? they don't have it down to where they drop one Deuterium pellet after another, it's more like one big POW, "oh wow that's cool, now look at that power bill."


i don't know how they do it yet but i think eventually they will find a way to harness the nuclear energy in the various materials (uranium or plutonium for fission, Deuterium for fusion) - and the process may well get a new name - where they learn to extract the nuclear energy without creating so much heat.

i say that partially based on the descriptions of UFO-type spacecraft in the book Above Top Secret. it is based on reports of uniformed service personnel, and doesn't do much editing, it just reports what they observed.

from those descriptions, it is clear that the spacecraft described have a near infinite energy source (by our standards), yet the spacecraft are not glowing red hot.

as if they found an energy source that generates as much energy as one of our nuclear power sources, but without all the waste heat.