Back to the more general concept of combining hot and cold fusion… The prime avenue for LENR intrusion into the hot fusion arena seems to be as the way to prepare “targets” for ICF.
This could be more true than ever, thanks to the arrival of so-called “desktop accelerators”. The desktop accelerator along with a hybridized hot-and-cold fusion scheme could be the ticket … and in some ways superior to cold fusion, since the form factor is small, the technology is fairly mature, it is easily adaptable to Direct Conversion (of heat to electricity) and the power density should be higher. We now know about the technique of rapid loading of D and Pd out of solution, at the same time via electroplating. Wasn’t Larry Forsley involved in that breakthrough as well? Anyway, this strategy of making ICF targets via CF techniques would seem obvious, and we have talked about it before in regard to the Winterberg concept and the Bae Institute: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg34994.html Which must have flopped. However, at the time of this old thread - one critical detail was omitted which might push a revised concept over the top: the superconductive nature of deuterium-loaded palladium. IOW – not just cold fusion, but ultracold fusion of a superconductor. One would think that a BEC target of solid deuterium for use in ICF would be obvious. In fact frozen pellets of deuterium were proposed half a century ago. But they were lacking. All BEC are not superconductive; and frozen deuterium is not superconductive by itself, whereas fully loaded pellets of Pd-D are superconductive. The difference could be… not just extremely important, but the difference between success and failure. _____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene This is Larry Forsley’s patent. Although the more general concept of combining hot and cold fusion seems valid and he is an expert - the problem with this proposal is that fast fission requires substantial fast neutrons and LENR of the variety anticipated produces mostly alphas – which will not do the job. QUOTE: “A preferred embodiment initiates deuterium-deuterium fusion in the deuterized fuel element and fissioning deuterized fuel element actinides. A preferred embodiment includes surrounding spent nuclear fuel elements with deuteride nuclear fuel elements that will fast fission the spent fuel elements. Another preferred embodiment includes surrounding the deuteride nuclear fuel elements with spent fuel elements as fast neutron reflectors that will also fission.” The $64 question is: where are the fast neutrons coming from? They usually derive from the tritium-deuterium reaction, but are not seen in LENR, so why should they show up here? From: Jed Rothwell See: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2009108331A3?cl=en "A hybrid fusion fast fission reactor WO 2009108331 A3 ABSTRACT A hybrid nuclear fusion fast fission reactor is disclosed. The hybrid reactor may include an electrolyte solution comprised of PdCI2 a conductive salt and D2O, an anode of a noble metal, a cathode consisting of a conductive high Z (atomic number greater than 46) material wound around a deuteride-forming actinide nuclear fuel element, a power source providing constant current to the + anode and the - cathode, an applied power profile for fabricating the PdD nanoalloy, and a co-deposition of a PdD nanoalloy on to the high Z cathode winding as well as the nuclear fuel element. . . . For details and related patents see: https://www.facebook.com/gbgoble/posts/10201707765005447 - Jed
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