Axil, Are the officials who recommend increased funding really that naive? Do you have the expertise to make such assertions? - of course, designing any large scale fusion reactor is a challenge.
Here is another recent paper on another approach - "Fusion reactions initiated by laser-accelerated particle beams in a laser-produced plasma" http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3506/full/ncomms3506.html Or, preprint - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.2002v1.pdf LPP is asking for two years and a modest budget. Hopefully both LPP and LENR are funded and succeed. Any success will lift the economy. -- LP Axil wrote: > Boron fusion is 1000 times more difficult to get to than deuterium fusion. > The energy capture device that they want to use assumes boron fusion. > > The x-ray capture device will not work in my opinion and deuterium fusion > will destroy the reactor. > > A commercial reactor is very difficult to build. > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> An new item - >> >> December 13, 2013 >> >> Senior Fusion researchers give major endorsement to Lawrenceville Plasma >> Physics Dense Plasma Focus Fusion Work and say they expect feasibility >> will be shown within two years with adequate funding. >> >> In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development >> program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of >> senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion >> program, >> has concluded that the innovative effort deserves a much higher level >> of >> investment based on their considerable progress to date. The report >> concludes that In the committees view [LPPs] approach to fusion power >> >> is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort. >> >> Lawrenceville Plasma Physics has been developing an extremely low-cost >> approach to fusion power based on a device called the dense plasma focus >> (DPF). In contrast to the giant tokamak machines that have been the >> recipients of most fusion funding, a DPF can fit in a small room. LPPs >> final feasibility experiments and planned commercial generators will use >> hydrogen-boron fuel, which produces no radioactive waste and promises >> extremely economical clean energy. >> >> http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/12/senior-fusion-researchers-give-major.html >> >> Lawrenceville Plasma Physics >> - Homepage: http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >
