Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-26 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Some LENR systems produce tritium and this decays into He3. Could a LENR system be engineered to supply enough He3 to make this sort of hot fusion practical? No, because tritium is a very minor product of LENR.

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-26 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this reminder. Can you imagine any reasons why hot fusion researchers might divert some of their own money into LENR research because it could advance their own program? Or will funding for hot fusion

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-26 Thread Edmund Storms
On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Some LENR systems produce tritium and this decays into He3. Could a LENR system be engineered to supply enough He3 to make this sort of hot fusion practical?

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-26 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Tom Claytor has a way of making tritium based on LENR that might supply tritium to the hot fusion program. Nevertheless, once LENR is understood, who needs hot fusion? Public funding is not determined by logic,

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel Rocha
That might be as good as cold fusion, according to some simulations they did with some configurations. They surprisingly got a COP of 1000x. 2013/1/24 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=south-korea-makes-billion-dollar-bet-fusion-power South

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread James Bowery
My response: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=south-korea-makes-billion-dollar-bet-fusion-powerposted=1#comment-18 18. jabowery http://www.scientificamerican.com/page.cfm?section=my-account06:21 PM 1/24/13 From a founder of the US Tokamak Fusion Program to Congress: The DoE

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Daniel Rocha
Sorry, I thought this was a case of plasma pinch. This is the old Tokamak, so I mistook this project with another one. 2013/1/24 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com That might be as good as cold fusion, according to some simulations they did with some configurations. They surprisingly got a

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread James Bowery
BTW: I don't know why rational fusion people don't continually rub the noses of pseudoskeptics in this letter. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:23 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: My response:

RE: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Jack Harbach-O'Sullivan
This is not 'Fusion' proper; This is Plasma Breach Reactor technology. (which 'can' support fusion but which would be so monumentally counter productive) and so much so that simply using the Plas-Breach Reactor in 'INCIPIENT'-Plas-Breach(restrained-eye)XO-Plasma bleed-through mode provides a

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Edmund Storms
This type of hot fusion has three problems that have not been solved or even widely acknowledged. 1. The fusion is between D+T. The tritium must be created because it is not a natural isotope. The plan is to convert the neutron flux into tritium which is fed back into the reactor.

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Indeed, However plasma physics is by itself interesting, so it is nice to have some big science experiments running. Science is not about profit but having fun! If plasma physicist would like really do something that could spawn profits on a long run, then they should study helium-3 fusion.

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Edmund Storms
On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Indeed, However plasma physics is by itself interesting, so it is nice to have some big science experiments running. Science is not about profit but having fun! Well Jouni, when over 25 billion dollars are spent, the question is who

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Indeed, However plasma physics is by itself interesting, so it is nice to have some big science experiments running. Science is not about profit but having fun!

Re: [Vo]:S.Korea Fusion

2013-01-24 Thread Edmund Storms
On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Indeed, However plasma physics is by itself interesting, so it is nice to have some big science experiments