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[zapkitty]

opensource wrote: Sorry that’s not really what I’m asking, and I don’t really understand what “beam” stands for. My questions from post numbers 10 and 12 are what I’m trying to understand – sorry for being thick-headed.

Then the google talks video would be very helpful in that case.

Very short version; A DPF produces a brief plasmoid. As this plasmoid collapses it emits a beam. In a Focus Fusion DPF the beam would be composed of helium nuclei, alpha particles, produced from the fusion of p and B11 in the plasmoid.

This beam of fast-moving charged particles is electricity just waiting to be tapped.

The plasmoid also produces x-rays, which again can be converted to electricity at high efficiency.

And the plasmoid emits heat. 7-8 MWt at about 600 degrees wouldn’t be too great for spinning turbines but would be great for heating the neighborhood buildings in winter, endless applications as industrial process heat and also for evaporating seawater for desalination. If the heat is not wanted at all then it can be sent to an air-cooled heat exchanger.

The energy total of everything else produced by the FF wouldn’t amount to very much compared to the beam, x-rays and heat.