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I’m still waiting…

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Meemoe_uk, we don’t have time to analyze your crazy idea. Watching that SAFIRE youtube video you posted was a waste of time. Three minutes into it, the director, Monty Childs, argues that the Sun is not powered by thermonuclear fusion.

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Joeviocoe wrote:

….Can you provide a reference stating _______ cannot _________?

= formula for logic flaw.

You are asking someone to prove a negative. It is up to you to prove the affirmative.

Alex, pay no attention to Joevioce. His ‘logic’ would fasely imply that the statement “prime numbers greater than 3 cannot be diveded evenly (whole number) by 3” is unprovable.

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I’m sure someone could come up with an equally long list of points regarding your BSF concept. 

I would like to start that list, for BSF, but nobody has found any obstacles yet.

BSF is a process, like the one used by kids when they make cupcakes in an “easy-bake” oven – just put stuff in and turn on the light.
The reflective cavity acts to conserve energy while the stuff cooks.

BSF claims:

1. A method for combusting a bubble of thermonuclear fuel immersed within a substantially spherical,
optically-reflective cavity filled with a transparent, laser-active fluid, comprising:
(a) means for positioning said fuel inside said cavity, whereby said fuel’s location and movement
can both be sensed and controlled, so that said fuel can be forced to occupy the optical focus
region at the center of said cavity;
(b) means for increasing the pressure within said fluid, whereby said bubble can be compressed
and quasi-adiabatically heated until it becomes incandescent; and
(c) means for optically pumping said fluid, whereby photons, of certain (lasing) frequencies emitted
from the incandescent fuel, will be amplified, reflect, and return to said fuel.

If a power plant were to be built based upon BSF, one would expect these advantages:

• Fusion energy is deposited directly in the bulk of coolant, avoiding energy extraction problems due to high intensity surface flux
• Zero cost target fabrication
• Absolutely no radioactive waste
• ALPHA heated, long burning, slow disassembling targets
• Instability resistant, low temperature, volume ignition
• Robust high yield targets for higher gains
• Affordable, durable, high efficiency drivers
• Reflective chamber to prevent loss of electromagnetic radiation
• Higher efficiency, higher temperature coolant system, with reduced material (coolant) needs

Please, post something negative about BSF (USPTO app#12/803,901).

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Michio Kaku shows how to build a plasma lightsaber in this youtube video:

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Ivy Matt wrote: Wouldn’t this idea suffer from the same difficulty as the problem of designing a real-life lightsaber? That is to say, how do you give the electrodes a tip, or end-point?

Could he use intersecting laser beams to shorten the path of least resistance?

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The following footnote, which deals with the p + Li7 → 2α + energy reaction, was taken from Ken Ford’s new (2015) book, titled “Building the H-Bomb. His book can be downloaded from http://www.worldscientific.com.

*This reaction can be viewed as a kind of fission process. The combination of a proton and a Li7 nucleus creates, momentarily, a beryllium-8 nucleus (containing four protons and four neutrons), which then splits into two alpha particles, each with two protons and two neutrons. This fission process is an exception to the rule explained later in this chapter that fission releases energy for heavy nuclei, whereas fusion releases energy for light nuclei. That rule applies only for stable or long-lived nuclei. The highly unstable, and very short-lived Be8 nucleus does release energy when it undergoes fission.

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