Reply To: NIMBY FUD

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I’m sure someone could come up with an equally long list of points regarding your BSF concept. 

I would like to start that list, for BSF, but nobody has found any obstacles yet.

BSF is a process, like the one used by kids when they make cupcakes in an “easy-bake” oven – just put stuff in and turn on the light.
The reflective cavity acts to conserve energy while the stuff cooks.

BSF claims:

1. A method for combusting a bubble of thermonuclear fuel immersed within a substantially spherical,
optically-reflective cavity filled with a transparent, laser-active fluid, comprising:
(a) means for positioning said fuel inside said cavity, whereby said fuel’s location and movement
can both be sensed and controlled, so that said fuel can be forced to occupy the optical focus
region at the center of said cavity;
(b) means for increasing the pressure within said fluid, whereby said bubble can be compressed
and quasi-adiabatically heated until it becomes incandescent; and
(c) means for optically pumping said fluid, whereby photons, of certain (lasing) frequencies emitted
from the incandescent fuel, will be amplified, reflect, and return to said fuel.

If a power plant were to be built based upon BSF, one would expect these advantages:

• Fusion energy is deposited directly in the bulk of coolant, avoiding energy extraction problems due to high intensity surface flux
• Zero cost target fabrication
• Absolutely no radioactive waste
• ALPHA heated, long burning, slow disassembling targets
• Instability resistant, low temperature, volume ignition
• Robust high yield targets for higher gains
• Affordable, durable, high efficiency drivers
• Reflective chamber to prevent loss of electromagnetic radiation
• Higher efficiency, higher temperature coolant system, with reduced material (coolant) needs

Please, post something negative about BSF (USPTO app#12/803,901).