Reply To: Focus Fusion Rail Gun

[zapkitty]

rimmini wrote: I was watching the TED talk on focus fusion and it struck me. What you have here is a thermionic generator with a “virtual” emitter. Maybe I am just showing my ignorance but it seems to me that the opposing jets, being of electrons and protons respectively should set up a “battery”. This battery should have a DC voltage equal to the voltage difference between the two ends and a current proportional to the density of the electron beam.

It is true that in standard DPF units both beams, electron and ion, exit the plasmoid in opposite directions… but in a Focus Fusion generator it’s expected that the election beam will not make it out of the plasmoid.

Instead it should be absorbed by the plasmoid and further heat the plasma, resulting both in an increased fusion event rate and a decidedly lopsided beam emission as the ions make their getaway 🙂

rimmini wrote: Any way just saying hi. Hope to learn a lot more.

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