Reply To: Peak Oil from Truth Out

[zapkitty]

dennisp wrote: I’m working on a simple explanation of focus fusion. I’d like to give the reader an idea of how common the fuel is.

To that end: if we got our boron from boxes of Borax from the drugstore, how much would we need to run a 5 MW reactor for a year?

Got my head in purgespace right now but these numbers can give an approximation….

Lerner – 05 November 2006 06:48 PM
A 5 MW reactor takes about 5 kg of fuel per year.

The default FF fuel is currently decaborane which is 88.45% boron and 11.55% hydrogen. I believe the boron in the fuel is supposed to be already “enriched” i.e. boron-11.

20 Mule Team Borax is supposed to be almost (99.5%) pure borax and pure borax is about 11% boron.

And naturally occurring boron is about 80% boron-11 and 20% boron-10.