Reply To: Fusion Oil

[Henning]

JimmyT wrote:

Patrick: I think your proposal was ignored, because it was similar to Eric’s initial idea of using a diamond/laser switch. Diamonds are insulators, but conduct pretty well when ultra violet light is shined upon. This was considered to be too expensive, and no-one ever built a switch that big. So Eric and Murali fell back to ionizing spark plug switches (don’t know if it’s the right name). But what you’re now proposing is something different.

patentable?

Don’t think so. But it’s no easy part either. You need to ionize the gas enough to create plasma. That might require a fairly strong laser (I don’t know, just suspecting it). Then the glass to chamber holding the reaction gas where the laser passes through needs to stay clear, so the laser doesn’t break the glass because auf resudials blocking the sight.

BTW: I’m no expert in this.