Reply To: Repowering the electric utility industry

[Joeviocoe]

BSFusion wrote: I think you are still confusing BSF with sonofusion; BSF does not use deuterium in heavy water to produce tritium, it uses Li in molten glass (or FLiBe), and BSF uses a high energy laser to ignite the fuel, acoustics play an insignificant role – they are only used to pre-compress the fuel and trigger the initial laser cascade. What scientists are you talking about? I’m the only person working on BSF.

Sorry if I am still not seeing the major differences. The “SF” in BSF DOES actually stand for sonofusion. It appears to be a different approach, to the same concept. And yes, Professor Andrea Prosperetti of Johns Hopkins HAS indeed done some work on Laser ignited Sono bubble fusion. He concluded that it would NOT work.
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sonoluminescence_-_Mechanism_of_phenomenon/id/2110704
http://www.me.jhu.edu/MENewsletter2012.pdf

I can see that you’ve done a lot of work on BSF here
http://home.centurytel.net/bubbles/bubbles.htm …
But it is still very much in it’s infancy, and with all the stigma from Taleyarkhan, the physicist that has been found guilty of misconduct… you have to prove more than the average scientist to gain acceptance for your hypothesis.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-08-27-purdue-scientist_N.htm
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/19/science/sci-misconduct19