KeithPickering wrote:
Thanks for that link, and the very interesting technical paper.
You are welcome! There is a link to a second technical paper and a lot of other interesting stuff on the home page.
A couple of final results then: at a ratio of 1.57 (energy recovered to energy input), the salable output of a reactor using 5 kg of borax per year (see my previous post for computations) would be 1111 kW. To convert ALL electric production worldwide (2.5 million megawatts) to pB11 fuel would require 12,500 tonnes or borax per year, or about 8% of current worldwide production.
So, no matter what the efficiency, the supply of boron is not going to be an issue.
