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[Frenetic]

I am obliged to chime in with this same question. It’s my understanding that nearly every fusion scheme is plagued by these “braking” losses as they can run as high as fifteen percent of the total energy produced. I once opined that X-Ray/gamma energy should be something that could be converted directly to electricity because you usually get at least three chances to “milk” an x-ray of energy before it drops into the infrared. I was immediately chastised by a number of physicists and told to go sit in a corner. I stilll think that they are wrong and that I was right. I suspect a properly doped substance like lead titanate might well do the job. For that matter, properly doped copper might do it. As far as I know, no one has done any research in this area.

But there is another question I’d like to have answered, mostly because I have read similar claims by Dr. Robert Bussard. How exactly to you go about getting electricity out of energetic alpha particles? Do you declerate them in some way that generates a current prior to allowing them to come in contact with a negatively charged grid? Then how do you go about getting the helium out of the system while maintaining control over the very then flow necessary for sustaining a plasma? The methods we use for this in the petro-chem business simply won’t work.

Oh, and I have to think that the device that slows the alpha particles must be surrounded by material that absorbs x-rays and converts them into electrical current. Any other method would be wasteful.