Reply To: Nuplex.

[BSFusion]

Jo…,

If you are serious about this… you will need to fully read and understand the research that came before. And understand its shortcomings.

Some problems I see with acoustic inertial confinement fusion are:
1) cooling loses are prolonged, because energy accumulates slowly, at the speed of sound,
2) small bubbles quickly lose thermal energy, because of their high surface-area to volume ratio,
3) energy is wasted breaking molecular bonds, both in the liquid and in the fuel,
4) only a small fraction of the energy gets to the fuel, because, at the high pressures fusion requires, liquids become very compressible, storing energy like a spring.
Some problems I see with laser inertial confinement fusion are:
1) Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities that mix and cool the fuel,
2) incomplete burn-up, because of the extremely short containment time,
3) optical damage from neutrons, heat, and target debris,
4) the cost of targets prohibits commercialization,
5) first wall material activation issues
BSF is not afflicted by those problems, and, in addition, BSF is expected to have higher gains than ICF.

Patents are all good and well, if you have a unique process or apparatus to exactly what you already KNOW can be done. A Patent does NOT equal Scientific Discovery. You really have to discover a new insight into scientific principle here. Not just invent a machine. The patent will come later, after all the ground work and you get a peer reviewed confirmation that your basic idea is sound. So far, Bubble Fusion is not proven to be feasible. And you will need to write a good paper to propose the idea again.

The ground-work is complete, and it is accessable by anyone with a computer, hundreds of free online reports, from LLNL, LANL, SNL, PPPL, and other government & private labs. AFAIK, BSF stays within the boundaries of current scientific knowledge. Please explain any violations you have in mind, when you imply BSF does not use KNOWN scientific principles. Also, I’m pretty sure BSF is NOT ready to be written-up in a peer reviewed paper. First, I am not ready to do the writing. Second, I don’t want to look foolish if it doesn’t work. Afterall, I have no scientific training and I could easily have overlooked something. No, it is better to scrutinize it here first, then someone here can volunteer to do the write-up.

Thanks