Reply To: $40million raised for boron fusion

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I am not a physicist, but please don’t dismiss my idea out of hand. Take a look at it this way:
You have 2 parameters in fusion, pressure and temperature. AFAIK they are interchangeable – the more pressure you apply the less heat you need. I would think that the amount of gas used for each shot is pretty small (or otherwise the e=mc2 would blow up you building), so the heating requirements should be small. The pre-compression could be done in pellet or BOC form. The pellet outer layer serving as a container (like liquid gas canisters).
I am not sure about the circumstances of the process, but:
Heating it up could not be an issue with a lot of pulse energy going into heat and small amount of gas to heat.
On the other hand, compression might be an issue, because you fill the whole vacuum chamber with loose atoms
and you must capture enough of them during the pulse and then use the energy of the pulse to compress (the pulse should be affected [weakened] by gas pressure).
Edit:
So having the gas pre-compressed should weaken the pulse less. And BOC transition into fusion plasma could be pretty instantaneous
without letting it separate the atoms to much.