At 6:09 PM 2/8/5, Frederick Sparber wrote: >"IN SANDIA'S "Z" MACHINE millions of amps of current are passed through a >tiny spool of tungsten wires, producing a flood of x rays. Essentially the >most powerful terrestrial producer of x rays, the Z device recently >achieved the following milestones during a test shot: temperatures of 1.8 >million K, a power output of 290 terawatts, and an energy release of 2.0 >megajoules. The researchers believe nuclear fusion could be attained inside >the device (by bombarding a fuel pellet with x rays) if the conditions were >pushed further, to temperatures of 3.5 million K and power levels of 1000 >terawatts." >> >> The main problem with the pulsed x-ray confinement approach I think is >that the >> remnants of the confinement structure become neutron radiated ejecta. >> >I think the main problem is that it doesn't work. :-)
This conclusion does not follow from the above. The proposed fuel pellet is con-confined. Regards, Horace Heffner
