[Alburton]

Hi again Breakable,
superfond of you giving me the chance of making my point clearer. Thank you. Just saying that I have this project very close to my heart and would make anything in my hand to make it reach success ASAP.
That is why I am raising this debate… if there is a reasonable doubt about the physics that should maybe be the first point to be cleared in order to attract intelligent investors. After all it is in the physical experiment phase.

Breakable wrote: I would not think you would have different formulas to calculate yield – its a function of triple product – density, time and temperature and if you are measuring neutrons, then you are actually measuring yield.

From the neutrons you can calculate yield, supposing they come from a fusion reaction, but you can also apparently measure the temperature of the reaction that bought the free neutrons into being.
Got me?
Quantity of neutrons -> yield.
Speed of the neutrons -> temp.

I guess that neutrons flying with energy E will tell a different story about a fusion reaction and about mechanism X…
….suppose the neutrons come from incandescent kryptonite wire, for arguments sake.
The temp of the wire will be different from a D=D fusion reaction, beacuse they are different mechanisms altogether.
Even if both produce free flying neutrons. So, according to the explanation you choose, the outcome of the calculations will be a different number, telling a different story.
So, back to the mechanism.

Breakable wrote: If you would like to suggest an alternative theory to explain the yield without having plasmoid, such as for example to say that the in the absence of plasmoid…

Apparently there is such a theory, and it is allegedly the mainstream theory for focus fusion machines.
According to Mike B Hopkins:

“It is generally accepted that the main mechanism producing the neutrons is a beam of fast deuteron ions interacting with the hot dense plasma of the focus pinch column. The origin of the fast ion beam is a diode action in a thin layer close to the anode with deviations from neutrality generating the necessary high voltages. This mechanism has been modelled in detail based on a expression for fusion yield given below;”

Ok, so the plasmoid makes sense, the pictures point to that direction, but there is a reasonable doubt if I am understanding things correctly. Even if the plasmoid were to be a wrong theory, if you get the right temp-density-time triad, you will get fusion. I firmly believe that from my ignorance.
But I am not too confident on that temperature number anymore.

[Alburton]

Hi, breakable.

Wasn’t temperature measured thanks to the energy of the neutrons arriving at the detector?
I guess a different explanation for neutron yield will have some consequences in this scenario,as you will put the measured numbers in a different set of equations

Just playing devil’s advocate here.
Thanks for following the game.

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