Reply To: Okay, Let's Stop The BAKE SALE mentality and get SERIOUS

[delt0r]

Well you could learn some electrostatics yourself you know. Its not that hard and any stage one uni book or higher level school text book would have everything you need to know. Both about fusion and cross sections and electrostatics. There are some free ones online these days as well.

|But sigh. Understanding and learning the problems is something so many people just don’t want to do. They have all these “good ideas” as if no one else has thought of them.

Long story short non neutral plasma means there are (in this case) more ions than electrons, and they repel each other. The net charge enclosed in a sphere gives you the electric field at that surface, and ions will be forced out of the sphere by that electric field. To “heat” ions and propel them into this sphere would need at less this much electric potential. You calculate that potential using Gaussian surface. That is left as an exercise for the reader.

You could add more electrons. But then the ions hit the electrons and convert all that energy into xrays, cooling the plasma. Even with no electrons it still doesn’t work. Quite simply you scatter off the ion far more often than you fuse. As a result the ions quickly thermalize and your back to Lawson criteria.