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From: Eric Walker
Maybe there is an [IRH] application to be found in *reducing* the
fusion cross section. ;)It was suggested years ago that a "hybrid" of Hot Fusion and LENR might be possible, especially with so-called "desktop" accelerators and extreme loading ratios characteristic of cold fusion. The overhead cost of hot fusion must come down by an order of magnitude before it makes sense. Perhaps the easiest way to imagine this kind of hot-cold-hybrid would be based on ICF (inertial confinement) ... where the cost savings comes from using LENR loading techniques to manufacture implosion pellets for irradiation via coherent beam compression; such as to implode targets with semiconductor laser arrays or electron beams based on small "Wakefield" accelerators. This kind of device could conceivably fit in a modified airplane, for instance, if the reactions were largely neutron free. The Winterberg/Bae plan was mentioned here a few years ago, and then went quiet; but seems not to have languished ... but also not to have made a breakthrough. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg34994.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/09/conjectured-metastable-super-explosives.htm l http://ykbcorp.com/news.html Jones
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