Their setup with the electron irradiated copper ball reminds me of inertial fusion with the laser irradiated DT pellets/balls.
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: What Energy Crisis? > In reply to Kyle R. Mcallister's message of Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:16:53 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] >>Now, if you want to get into violating baryon number and lepton number, >>maybe there is some way to "burn" matter into energy directly, say, make >>some sort of thing that converts 50% of your matter feed stock into >>antimatter, and the leftover 50% of normal matter does the rest. Better >>convert an equal number of baryons and leptons too, otherwise we get into >>charge conservation violations. If we can do that, then we are all set. But >>how do we do that? > > The proton21 crowd may have found alternative clean nuclear reactions, capable > of using essentially any matter as fuel (probably only metals at present). > > http://www.proton21.com.ua/index_en.html > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ > > Competition provides the motivation, > Cooperation provides the means. >
