Is Focus Fusion RIGHT?
(1) CommentsWe keep getting asked if Focus Fusion is right. While we would like to assure you that it is, we can’t know, until the experiments are done, if the Focus Fusion device will work as theorized. The only way to prove it either way is with proof-of-concept experiments.
Of course, we didn’t pull this out of a hat. A physics PhD student, in fact anyone with a basic knowledge of physics can judge for themselves if our fusion work is decent science.
That is not the same as knowing if the idea is “right”. Sometimes subtle mistakes or false assumptions enter in that can only be detected by trained physicists—sometimes in the field or sometimes coming from outside.
But an idea that has a subtle flaw is not crackpot—lot’s of ideas have small flaws but still are valid science and may in fact deserve to be experimentally tested.
In this particular field, plasma physics, the phenomena themselves are so complex, the plasma so ingenious at defeating the predictions of nearly all physicists, that ideas cannot be “proven” without experiment.
No one, Eric Lerner included, can KNOW if the focus fusion approach will produce net energy, or if some other approach is better.
We can only say that this approach is reasonable within the known laws of physics and is backed up by existing experimental results, something anyone can judge for themselves.
What is needed to KNOW what will work is experimentation.
To test 50 ideas like this (and there may be almost that many good ideas in fusion) might take $100 million or maybe even $200 million dollars. If many of those ideas did not pan out (and they won’t) the money is not “wasted’. The whole idea of the scientific enterprise is to test reasonable ideas, based on theory and observation, by experiment. That is the test of where truth lies, not an appeal to authority.
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2 things come to mind assuming the plasmoid has enough energy and confinement time to burn hydrogen/boron.
1: Angular momentum coil angle. is there any benifit to skewing this coil a few degrees off axis to promote plasmoid collapse? is placement of the coil relative to plasmoid formation critical?
2: regarding degredation of copper during high current flows. would there be any benifit to plating the anode and or cathode with tungsten to slow or eliminate erosion? same idea if using beryllium
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