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Ow! I got as far as telekinetic bumblebees and then my Third Eye started to hurt. If they can use their telekinetic powers to overcome the second law of thermodynamics, then I’ll be impressed. I heard that, according to aerodynamics, bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly, anyway, so why don’t we put a bunch of ’em in a vaccum chamber, shake it up so they fly around, and harness the Zero Point energy?

Oh, wait. Never mind…

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Ah! I did miss something. Thank you for the clarification. If I understand correctly, the deuterium and tritium (or other fuel) is moving at such high velocity that there is no possibility for motion in any other direction, ie: the self-organizing motion of an instability.

If so, that’s a lot of velocity! How do you intend to impart such energy, what difficulty do you see with maintaining the focus of your beams, and have you been able to estimate a breakeven number?

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No electromagnetic confinement? I may have missed something here, but the main problem with “beam fusion” has always been Coulomb collisions.

If you are using confinement, EM or otherwise, then we are back to talking about instability, especially in long-pulse. My guess is that you’ll see kink instability, especially at high beam densities.

[Spiralfield]

I read about work at Los Alamos with reverse-field trapping. I am not familiar with the exact confinement scheme LPPx uses, but LA got much higher neutron yields with a second axial field trapped inside the pinch. Probably makes timing the two fields + pinch current harder, but might be worth it.

Also, has there been any work done with a pre-ionized fuel charge?

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