Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[Francisl]

asymmetric_implosion wrote:

This part is new and something I’m working on with a hope of publishing later this year if the reviewer and I can agree. Plasma focus devices seem to perform well when the voltage generated by the pinch is large compared to the voltage used to charge the bank. When the ratio of these terms is large, the fusion yield is large. When the ratio is small, the fusion yield is small. The higher ratio implies that the mean ion energy that drives the fusion is higher, which is a good thing. Fusion cross sections grow quickly with ion energy.

FoFu-1 does well because it is able to produce a large voltage at pinch time. The small electrodes are an important part of the equation. It also seems that LPP is able to compress their pinch more tightly than most machines.

Please let us know when your paper is available for viewing. I’m already thinking of questions.