> [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Horace Heffner)> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Date: 2/8/05 7:57:28 PM > Subject: Re: High Energy Electron Bombardment of LiD & LiH, Was.. > > 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. > A trillion watts input for a microsecond is a megajoule. I think after 25 years of failure the perpetrators is this overpriced flop should be con- confined. :-) Signing off the list. Frederick > Regards, > > Horace Heffner >
