In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:22:10 -0700: Hi, [snip] >> But fusors don't depend on Maxwellian tails. All the deuterons get accelerated to >> thousands of eV, which equates to a temperature of approx. 1E8 K. > >NO!! You are confusing kv with KeV. All Fusore depend on Maxwellian tails. The actual >average plasma temperature of the Fusor is less than 2 eV
Then they are operating with way too high plasma densities. The original intent was that bare nuclei be accelerated by the full voltage of the device, shoot right through the centre, and come out the other side, from where they would be reversed and sent back again. All of which would result in the occasional head on collision, and hopefully, a fusion reaction. If the average temperature in practice is only 2 eV or less, then this has to be because most fast moving ions are being scattered before they can pass through the core, which in turn implies that the density is way too high. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk Hot fusion is sort of like Heaven, It's the reward you get long after everyone's dead
