Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[Steven Sesselmann]

asymmetric_implosion wrote: I’m a bit confused by the video and it seems like you are glossing over a few important points in the physics. You mention alpha particles being created in the fusor; are you using D-T fuel or a p-11B fuel? D-D fuel cannot produce 4He in a low pressure environment due to momentum conservations considerations. If you are referring to D-T or p-11B, why does the alpha particle only have 100 keV? Shouldn’t any particles created in the fusion event have their fraction of the change in binding energy (14.1 MeV in D-T) plus the potential difference of 100 keV. In that case, the 100 keV seems pretty small compared to the fusion yield. Could you clarify please?

Thank you for pointing this out, I was talking without a script, and could have used better terminology.

My experiment will be done with Deuterium fuel only so we are discussing D+D fusion, and the reactions as we know are D+D -> T + p and D+D -> 3He + n, in my talk I was referring to the positively charged fusion products, ie. the proton and the 3He nucleus.

If my predictions hold true, the fusing molecules will automatically orientate themselves so that the positive particle/nucleus (p or 3He) can go to ground via the flight tube, ie. up the potential energy slope. You can imagine the potential energy well is in the order of 100 Kev, while the fusion products have energies in the order of Mev, so they will have no trouble escaping.

A proton or an He3 nucleus with a charge of +1 climbing through a potential of 100 Kv liberates 100 Kev of power, so at 10^14 fusion reactions per second , you get !00,000 ev * 10^14 – 10^19 ev = 1.6 watt seconds. The fusion products are capable of climbing through a higher potential than that. The output is therefore limited only by our ability to insulate the cathode from ground.

I would go so far as to say that fusion is the only escape route for these trapped deuterons, and providing the temperature of the plasma can be maintained high enough, this escape route is the only way out, and nature will find it.

Steven