Reply To: NIMBY FUD

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January 16, 2012 at 9:03 pm #11322
Steven Sesselmann
Participant

jamesr wrote:

what I do believe is that ionizing particles below ground potential, lowers the relative Coulomb barrier.

In a word… No.

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The electric field created by one ion at the position of the other at this distance is E=1/(4pi*eps0) *q/r^2 ~10^20 V/m

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James, before you throw the baby out with the bathwater, stop for a minute and consider the observers potential.

The equation above is valid for particles generated at ground potential, ie, the experimenter and the particles origin is the same.

Not so when the ions are generated below ground potential, in the case of my FICS fusion reactor, the plasma holds a negative potential with respect to the observer, and I think one needs to multiply the equation above by 10^-5, when observing the event from ground potential.

Steven