In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 18 Dec 2022 01:02:10 +0000 (UTC): Hi, [snip] > Dead in the water... >Requires lots of helium-3 to become commercial
That's why they also use a D+D reaction to produce the He3. What I missed in the presentation was the fact that when you fuse D+D you automatically also get the D+He3 & D+T reactions happening in the same plasma. The D+T reaction is going to produce fast neutrons. This will even happen to some extent in their D+He3 reactor, because the D+D reaction happens more readily than the D+He3 reaction, and the D+D reaction will produce some T in situ. So they will get some fast neutrons whatever they do. Therefore they might as well put them to good use, fissioning waste actinides from fission reactors. In short converting long term waste into short term waste & potentially useful radioisotopes. I also missed some mention of the COP. However the emphasis on direct conversion to electricity may be a hint that they hope this will push them over the edge to breakeven. They should be seeing current pulses in the windings of their current machine, when a fusion reaction occurs, which presumably partially recharges the capacitors? In which case they should already know what the current COP is. I suspect they would also benefit from superconducting coils to reduce the energy lost in the resistance at 100 kA current levels. > > > > H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A New Way to Achieve Nuclear Fusion >This would not possible without fibre optics to get the timing right of the >electrical pulses. >https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38 >Harry > Cloud storage:- Unsafe, Slow, Expensive ...pick any three.
