In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:55:08 -0400: Hi,
..and they want a billion dollars for this, without knowing whether or not it will work. I don't know whether or not mine will work either, but I need ten thousand times less to try it. >http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23102/ > >Sidebar: > >Power pistons: General Fusion's reactor is a metal sphere with 220 >pneumatic pistons designed to ram its surface simultaneously. The >ramming creates an acoustic wave that travels through a lead-lithium >liquid and eventually accelerates toward the center into a shock wave. >The shock wave compresses a plasma target, called a spheromak, to >trigger a fusion burst. The thermal energy is extracted with a heat >exchanger and used to create steam for electricity generation. To >produce power, the process would be repeated every second. > ><more> > >I want one in my 1976 Chevy Vega! > >Terry Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
