Reply To: Nuplex.

[Joeviocoe]

BSFusion wrote: Joeviocoe, I really hate being compared to Taleyarkhan.

Taleyarkhan did not invent BSF. In fact, his apparatus does not even use a laser. Check for yourself. I googled “BSF deeth” and got 60,100 results, but when I googled “BSF Taleyarkhan” I only got 28 results, and, in those few cases, the BSF stood for either Bible Scientific Foresight or BioSciences Federation, not Bubble-confined Sonoluminescent-laser Fusion. Also, don’t confuse BSF with tabletop tinker toys, its intended as a full-scale power plant.

I have no idea what you’re reffering to, when you mentioned an “original” website, where is that?

Anyway, I should have included the Title & Abstract (see below) with my original post, sorry.

TITLE OF INVENTION
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A NUCLEAR FUSION POWER PLANT HAVING A LIQUID REACTOR CORE OF MOLTEN GLASS THAT IS MADE LASERACTIVE AND FUNCTIONS AS A TRITIUM BREEDING BLANKET WHICH IS CAPABLE OF ACOUSTICLY COMPRESSING/CONFINING FUEL SO THAT IT RADIATES AND TRIGGERS OUTGOING LASER CASCADES THAT WILL REFLECT FROM THE BLAST CHAMBER’S SPHERICAL INSIDE WALL AND RETURN LIKE PHOTONIC TSUNAMIS, CRUSHING, HEATING, AND CAUSING THERMONUCLEAR IGNITION OF THE FUEL SO THAT HEAT ENGINES AND PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTERS CAN CONVERT THE RELEASED ENERGY INTO ELECTRICITY.

ABSTRACT
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A nuclear fusion power plant having a spherical blast-chamber filled with a liquid coolant that breeds tritium, absorbs neutrons, and functions as both an acoustical and laser medium. Fuel bubbles up through the sphere’s base and is positioned using computer guided piezoelectric transducers that are located outside the blast-chamber. These generate phase-shifted standing-waves that tractor the bubble to the center. Once there, powerful acoustic compression waves are launched. Shortly before these reach the fuel, an intense burst of light is pumped into the sphere, making the liquid laser-active. When the shockwaves arrive, the fuel temperature skyrockets and it radiates brightly. This, photon-burst, seeds outgoing laser cascades that return, greatly amplified, from the sphere’s polished innards. Trapped within a reflecting sphere, squeezed on all sides by high-density matter, the fuel cannot cool or disassemble before thorough combustion. The blasts kinetic energy is absorbed piezoelectrically.

I would not rely on number of google hits to indicate anything. Especially if you were to type in an acronym.

Has anybody actually created a device and begun getting confirmed fusion reactions using this approach? Or is this all still on paper? Even Farnsworth-Hirsh Fusors get confirmed fusion reactions.
Has anything written on this new approach been published in a peer reviewed journal?

It seems that the http://home.centurytel.net/bubbles/bubbles.htm (Mike Deeth’s website) is served on a free domain and is not very professional at all.
Judging from the website given, it I don’t think there has ever been a device with a confirmed reaction, nor any preliminary experiments to verify underlying principles.

According to Mike Deeth himself, ” I should also mention that I’m neither a physicist nor a high school graduate”. He has also filed a patent application… which indicates nothing since the patent office does not verify claims.
Not to say that great inventors must be formally educated…. but fusion research is not just ‘invention’ using already established science… it is new science which will require education, use of the scientific method, and experimentation to the level that exceeds a typical garage or basement.

That all being said…. I don’t see how any of this is really impressive. It seems that whoever this Mike Deeth is, he took a fusion idea that once had some merit (before being discredited), and saw the movie “Chain Reaction” (1996) with Keanu Reaves, Morgan Freeman, and Rachel Weisz… which portrayed a type of Laser induced sonoluminescence device… and thought it all seemed plausible. The website is quite detailed.. but even the basic claims are largely unverified.