Reply To: Competition from the Thorium reactor

[AaronB]

texaslabrat wrote: So while it’s not proof positive that power production from such a mechanism is feasible, at the same time it represents a marked lack of concrete proof that would tend to disprove such a device. Anyway, like I said before, I’m going to withhold the majority of my “judgment” until the patent information becomes public and can be subjected to a more general review. But from what I’ve seen so far, I’m encouraged.

Wow, that is one of the most honest and non-judgemental appraisals of our work that I have ever heard! I wish everyone was as willing to hear us out and not dismiss the ideas based on preconceived notions and current technologies. You’re right. The patent application will clarify the proposals, and the means will then be open to evaluation. It is important to realize that none of our ideas require new physics or particles. All we are doing is taking an old device and applying new ideas to it to raise the overall output efficiency. The DPF is not a fairy tale machine. Its potential has not been researched enough, although its basic operation is pretty well understood, and it has a long track record already. The magnetic field effect is also real, but hasn’t been applied to the DPF before. Injecting angular momentum is also an old idea, but it hasn’t been applied to a DPF before. The x-ray capture device requires no special physics either, as will be seen later. The combination and refinement of these ideas will hopefully produce a lot of net energy. Defeatism may be appropriate in situations where the writing is on the wall that failure is certain, or when success is dependent only on a miracle, but that is certainly not the situation with Focus Fusion. I appreciate the open-minded attitude.