Puppy Dog,
Just a preview of the Chan dancing hydride ion (H-) locked into an
orderly line by a magnetic field courtesy of "The Coil" and Ni/C nano
structures, but oscillating to the beat of an RFG accelerant.
Reminds me of the recently proposed Noble Gas Engine theory where He-
(Helium-electron adduct) attempts to do the same dance but falls apart
with a reversal just before climax. Same initiator (Spark), same coil,
same RFG but Noble Gas mix instead of Ni/C. I suspect that if one
someone put a spoonful of Ni sponge into a Papps Engine a kiloton
explosion would result. That's right, one engine did explode come to
think of it.
Quickly
Reference:
[Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration
Puppy Dog
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:22:13 -0700
Axil,
What ever happened in the field of FRC? You predicted the fruit of
efforts would ripen in 2013 and be ready for harvesting.
Cheers,
Puppy Dog (AKA DD or Detective Dog)
<<<<August 2009 in Technology Review Published by MIT
Axil wrote:
The answer to the energy revolution is an old idea whose time has come.
It is best to configure a “system” of reactors in which one type
produces fuel, a clean fuel, a pure fuel, and another that consumes
this fuel. This is analogous to a bakery that bakes bread for a
populace that hungrily consumes its loaves as they are baked.
Hans Bethe played an important role in the development of the larger
hydrogen bomb, though he had originally joined the project with the
hope of proving it could not be made. His scientific research never
ceased even into the later years of his life. He is one of the few
scientists who can claim a major paper in his field every decade of his
career, which spanned nearly sixty years. Freeman Dyson called Bethe
the "supreme problem solver of the 20th century." One of the most
innovative ideas that he was noted for was his advocacy of the
fission/fusion hybrid. See this old article by Bethe as follows:
http://www.marcobresci.it/docs/fusione_ibrida.pdf
As a bridge technology to pure fusion, the fusion/fission hybrid is at
the root of a large network of fission reactors that feed off the U233
fuel produced by the fusion reactor. Bethe thought that such fusion
capability was just around the corner. But fusion took some wrong turns
that slowed it down. However, certain types of fusion reactors are
currently at hand. Their fusion approach has been demonstrated. As is
common in fusion technology, they must show a scaling up of the neutron
production rate that will make a thorium fusion hybrid effective and
productive.
My intent is to examine and describe in simple terms where the thorium
fusion/fission hybrid stands and to evaluate the probability of its
success in the near term.
The basic physics of the field reverse configuration (FRC) fusion
process has been demonstrated in a small test device referred to as the
Inductive Plasmoid Accelerator (IPA).
The IPC forms two packets of Tritium-deuterium plasma at each end of a
beryllium tube and accelerates them at each other to collide at a
central point in a fusion burn chamber. These two packets combine both
their energies together to form a stable ball of high energy ions that
are both well mixed and well formed.
A surrounding large magnet compresses the ball of plasma together to
reduce its size and hold it in the burn chamber for a period longer
then what was expected from past experiments. That is good. When fusion
experiments are scaled up (made bigger) something almost always goes
wrong and the experiment does worst than expected. Much work must be
done to find out what the problem is and how to fix it.
The ball of plasma was much stronger than expected. This is great since
fusion in plasmas that don’t stay together just won’t work. The fusion
guys don’t really understand the way this type of FRC fusion works much
better than their theoretical models predict. They think it might
somehow be due to the ash produced by fusion. They just don’t
understand it yet, but they surely are happy about it. Sometimes it is
better to be lucky than smart.
The equipment to do all this is simple and ordinary. It is cheap and
will hold up well when operated in rapidly repeating pulses over a long
timeframe.
After fusion in the ball of plasma is completed, the fusion ash and the
left over tritium and deuterium find its way into a diverter that
removes it from the burn chamber. The high energy neutrons produced by
fusion fly out in all directions. It will be these neutrons that will
make U233 in the thorium blanket that will eventually surround the burn
chamber.
Past FRC experiments have shown that the number of high energy neutrons
produced by fusion scales as a simple function of the energy in which
they collide and the strength of the magnetic field that compresses the
plasma. Both these values can be increased to a level that will
eventually produce enough neutrons to make the fusion/fission thorium
hybrid concept possible.
The big challenge is to keep the damage to the beryllium first wall
down. That is why the fusion guys must set up a component test facility
to check out how much ware they can get out of the first wall. They
know the thorium fission reactor technology exists having been
developed and demonstrated in the 60’s and 70’s but they don’t know the
details. They need to integrate this thorium stuff into their
configuration. But it looks like it can integrate together really well.
How long is this development process going to take?
If the fusion guys get development money, just a pittance compared to
ITER, they will get to a neutron production rate that can breed U233 by
2013. So the pure thorium fuel cycle could be at hand.
Sometimes there is a dark horse in the race that could be a black swan.
Let’s hope this technology gets the funding it needs to save the
day.>>>>
