S.T.A.R. Fusion

[Steven Sesselmann]

Since there has been no mention in this forum about S.T.A.R., I shall give a brief overview of how it works.

The name S.T.A.R. was given to the project by Frank Sanns (inventor of Pillar Of Fire or PIF), and stands for Sesselmann Tube Accellerator Reactor.

It is essentialy a grid less IEC fusion reactor, a hollow cathode beam collider, the improvement over the Farnsworth-Hirsh reactor was the hollow sphere cathode, surrounded by dielectric oil. This architecture assured that electron leakage from the cathode to the anode was minimized. Four versions of the reactor was built in the period 2005 to 2008, and as expected it produced fusion, less expected was the fact that it would self sustain a reaction at a low rate for up to ten minutes after power was switched off. this was a puzzle that needed to be solved.

Due to personal circumstances the experiments stopped in 2008, but since then, much thought has gone into undestanding S.T.A.R. and I believe that I now undersatand the reaction and how to exploit this effect, and we have now lodged a provisional patent application for the improved device.

Essentially we created by accident, a device that was capable of fusion induced charge separation, in which a very low rate of fusion was able to separate the positive and the negative charges, and thereby we were able to maintain a negative charge on the cathode after the power supply had been switched off. Did we achieve break even fusion? Don’t know….maybe.

Find out more at Bee Research and on our youtube channel, where I was lucky to capture one of the runaway reactions on video.

My next project is S.T.A.R.D.R.I.V.E., but first I have to get a new lab and some funds.

Steven

[MTd2]

When you say “we”, does it mean that the team is getting back together?

[Steven Sesselmann]

During my first fusion experiments I was working mostly alone, but this time I would like to get a team together. I have a number of friends with the right skills, and a 20 year old son, who is a physics under graduate, and I am sure he will be on my team.

Steven

[Ivy Matt]

Steven Sesselmann wrote: I was lucky to capture one of the runaway reactions on video.

I thought one of the draws of fusion was that “runaway reactions” were impossible. 😉

But seriously, I hope you’re able to move forward with your research. Have you given much thought to energy capture

[Steven Sesselmann]

Ivy Matt wrote:

I thought one of the draws of fusion was that “runaway reactions” were impossible. 😉

Ivy, sorry, runaway reaction is the wrong term, it would be more correct to say “self sustaining”, and add “maybe” if you like.

What might have taken place is charge separation…, 50% of the reactions in D+D fusion results in a fast proton, this proton is able to escape the hollow cathode through either of the two appertures, resulting in a diametric ejection of positively charged particles. These 1 Mev particles easily climb up the -50 to -100 Kv potential, and go to ground, thereby leaving the cathode with a negative charge. What I was able to do, was to turn off the power supply that supplied the negative potential to the cathode, and watch as the reaction continued by itself. It should however be noted, that I had a 30 watt ion gun running, which supplied a steady current of ions.

This is a big claim, and I would like to repeat this experiment, with someone that could understand and verify the result.

Soon I hope..

Steven

[emmetb]

What might have taken place is charge separation…, 50% of the reactions in D+D fusion results in a fast proton, this proton is able to escape the hollow cathode through either of the two appertures, resulting in a diametric ejection of positively charged particles. These 1 Mev particles easily climb up the -50 to -100 Kv potential, and go to ground, thereby leaving the cathode with a negative charge. What I was able to do, was to turn off the power supply that supplied the negative potential to the cathode, and watch as the reaction continued by itself. It should however be noted, that I had a 30 watt ion gun running, which supplied a steady current of ions.

But why were there no bubbles?

Nevertheless, if it is true you have a plausible mechanism for charge separation maybe it is time to write a paper and submit it to a peer reviewed journal/conference? Or perhaps talk to somebody in academia to try and get them to cooperate with you and repeat your experiment?

In the meantime your patent is pending so that should provide adequate protection of your intellectual property.

[Steven Sesselmann]

I agree 100%, the experiment needs to be repeated and we need to understand the physics behind the effect, either way, it was quite interesting.

On the subject of bubbles, the STAR fusion reactor was regularly producing bubbles, usually I would get 10-20 bubbles in a few minutes (with the PSU supplying a bias). Once I switched off the PSU I no longer had a measure of the voltage on the cathode, but neutron detectors and x-rays were detectoable after power off, indicating that it was at least maintaining 20KV or more. Colliding deuteron beeams at or over 20 Kv will produce some fusion, the question is weather or not, the fusion reactions were powering the cathode bias. the answer is I don’t know…

I attach a diagram of the STAR capacitor..

PS. There are two patent applications STAR has already been published and another that I call STARDRIVE is pending

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