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Why, this is really far – out and fascinating. Would high energy short wavelengths be more confining, or easier to bend? What about the ability of something like x – rays to encircle a plasma and confine it? Or could something like visible red light from a laser work as good or better? I’d like to know more about this exciting discovery.

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My basic idea is quite simple, but more problematic in actual practice. You add some kind of supplemental fuel additive that may help the pB11 reaction take place more easily. It would have to be an energy releasing reaction at lower temperature …… dumping more energy into the plasma than the electric power supply alone can provide …… rapidly bringing it up to pB11 temperature. However, we seem to be running out of workable options, so that the pB11 reaction alone will have to suffice. Lerner is pretty confident that it can. Go fusion power ! ! !

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Still yet another option for cathode and anode materials might be some kind of exotic synthetic ceramic material. Some ceramics can also be made hard and strong as diamond, or about four times harder than steel. But most ceramics are insulators. Such an exotic synthetic ceramic material would also have to be capable of electric conduction of an enormous amount of amperage and other desirable characteristics. But for now anyway, shock treated nanocrystalline copper may still be the best option there is. Anybody out there got any other feedback or ideas on possible exotic electrode materials that might work well? It would be interesting to learn more.

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How would super – strong graphite or diamond work for heat and X – ray corrosion resistance? Or could other materials be made stronger by coating them with a thin diamond layer? Instead of trying to cool such electrodes by circulating a cooling fluid such as helium gas through them, the heat might temper the electrodes harder, stronger and more resistant the longer the device is in operation.

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It may be necessary for both the inner and outer electrodes to be hollow with a coolant in circulation through them. Although the inner one will be much hotter than the outer ones. Because even the outer ones may be warped / damaged over time. The co – generated heat along with power would definitely be useful.

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Here’s another alternative possibility that might work better. Instead of direct injection of waste into the fusion reactor itself, the electric power output from the fusion reactor could be used to power some sort of X – ray or gamma source external to the fusion powerplant. One method is to accelerate a beam of electrons until they stike a target. Still yet another way to generate rays energetic enough to convert isotopes may be to have the energetic alpha particles from the fusion reaction strike a target instead. Some FF reactors could be specifically designed to generate X – rays instead of electric power with the alpha emission they produce. I’m curious about how much nuclear waste a single FF device could destroy in a given amount of time. It probably would not take very many FF converters to destroy all of the thousands of tons that have been produced so far.

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Brian H. stated that:

” Perhaps you better go back a few steps and explain why you want more temperature, etc. It seems like a solution in search of a problem “

Or are you basically trying to say that you are fully confident that:

#1. that boron and hydrogen alone will easily ignite.

#2. no additional catalytic stimmulus neccessary.

#3. with current DPF.

#4. no additional brakthroughs neccessary.

#5. now only a matter of time and additional funding.

Well I sure hope so. Every enthusiastic mad scientist the world over will be screaming ” Eureka, eureka, eureka, eureka …… the global energy crunch will be solved at last ! ! ! ” 😉

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That is exactly what I said in one of my previous posts. With Ogallala depletion, shortages, etc. we may have NO other choice but the lesser of evils. But I don’t know if Brian H. ever took the time to read it all. Most closed – minded people usually don’t read my posts, so I wind – up repeating myself like an old phonographic record with a deep scratch in it later on …… later on …… later on …… later on …… Oooops ! 🙂

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I already made a comment about blacklight power earlier …… under a different topic about what sort of other fuel impurity you might add to the FF to help it along by dumping more energy into it …… to get it over the so – called ” hump “. I considered all sorts of possibilities that all seemed unworkable, such as injection of fissionable heavy atoms (same basic idea as how the H – Bomb works), or the injection of helium isotope He 3 (too scarce and unobtainable). I also mentioned the blacklight process. I don’t know if anybody ever read it or not. The basic idea / suggestion I posited was that if you could somehow get the blacklight reaction to occur in the Focus Fusion device, it might dump enough additional energy into it to get pB11 going more easily.

But I realize this is all still very speculative like every other thing I’ve considered so far. First of all, we still must determine whether or not there is any merit to the claims Randall Mills makes. Although I’m still very open – minded to the unlimited possibilities, it remains to be seen if such a hydrogen transition to a lower state is possibe considering what is currently known about quantum physics.

In fact, I already sent an E – Mail to Blacklight Power several years ago and suggested to them that the blacklight process in a hot, energetic plasma might work as a catalyst for nuclear fusion. I got no reply back from them.

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Brian H. stated that:

” Perhaps you better go back a few steps and explain why you want more temperature, etc. It seems like a solution in search of a problem. “

I don’t quite know what you mean by that. Unless it’s a different way of saying what I said. Basically, what I was trying to say is that it may not be more plasma temperature that will help it along, but more plasma DENSITY that may help make pB11 fusion easier to achieve …… if a way for the plasma to be squeezed tighter can be achieved. In that case, it may not be the injection of some other kind of fuel impurity/supplement that works so much as some sort of extra physical means applied. What that other means would be at this point is anyone’s guess and pure conjecture. Any additional ideas, input or suggestions? When doing pure basic reseach, even doing experiments like changing the basic shape of electrodes may have surprising or unexpected results that might make the device work more efficient.

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Or perhaps I’m looking at it all from the wrong approach. Instead of dumping more thermal energy into the plasma to obtain higher temperatures …. perhaps it needs higher pressure instead to help it along. Would the interaction of some sort of external electrical or magnetic field help to pinch or compress the plasma vortex even tighter? More than likely, it would cause some sort of instability that would have the opposite effect of breaking – up the plasma vortex. Or perhaps it could be made to convet the thermal energy and high temperatures into greater compression.

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Darn …. I’ve contemplated the idea of heavy atom fission (physics seems totally incompatible), deutrium and scarce He 3 (costly moon mining of lunar soil, anyone?). What the heck else might somehow get the plasma in the focus fusion reactor hotter and more energetic? I’ve heard about the Blacklight reaction Randall Mills is working on at his Blacklight Power Corporation. However, this process is still very controversial. It seems to contradict mainstream physics and everything we know about quantumn mechanical principles. And if it works, you would still have to figure – out whether or not it could be workable or compatible with focus fusion.

When thinking “outside – the – box” about countless other possibilities, most of them fall by the wayside as not workable. But I keep hoping that if we maintain an open mind and play hit or miss enough times, one half – baked idea out of every one – hundred or so might finally hit paydirt. Also, assumptions about how things work based upon known principles don’t always work, either. It is no substitute for real world experimentation. Sometimes, you can get unexpected results that can literally blow you away. Many new discoveries and breakthroughs are unexpected accidents. I keep hoping that a major new development in focus fusion happens any day now. I’d love to read an exciting newspaper headline like : ” Eric Lerner’s team of researchers unexpectedly output twenty times more energy …. beats ITER to the punch ! ! ! “

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Since fission of massive atoms like uranium, thorium, etc. seem so incompatible with the focus fusion device, I still wonder if He 3 would help ignite the pB11 reaction at lower temerature and pressure. The problem here is that this lighter isotope of helium is scarce here on Earth. It is more plentiful in the lunar soil of the Moon.

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JimmyT is absolutely correct. We will never solve any problems or have any real progress in this country anymore with all the closed – minded naysayers these days. What ever happened to the old – fashioned Yankee Ingenuity which America used to be famous for? Or are we going to continue to be a stagnating and slowly dying civilization that can’t even compete with foreign countries like Japan and China anymore?

I’m NOT talking about reducing the mighty Missisippi River to a tiny trickle like what they’ve done to the Colorado River in the West (they’ve completely slaughtered this river). Neither would it necessarily require huge dams. Plenty of water could still be allowed to flow downstream to maintain the delta and marsh areas. I’m talking about redirecting only the excessive rains that cause catastrophic flooding …. to replenish the Ogallala aquifier. This excessive amount of water spreads out across the land …. causing billions of dollars of damage to entire communities …. instead of going downstream to the delta or any marsh areas anyway.

As the Army Corps of Engineers discovered with it’s rejigging of the Everglades and lower Mississippi

The upper Mississippi area further upstream is NOT quite the same as the Everglades and lower Mississippi.

there are nasty consequences to short – circuiting the natural flood cycles.

What about the nasty cosequences of the floods themselves?

The water cycle is not a plumbing system.

Like I stated before already, the pre – existing system is already a type of natural plumbing system. However, sudden manmade changes to the natural plumbing system can indeed cause some problems …. due to nature’s inability to adapt to sudden changes fast enough. That’s why such a partial water diversion would not be a cure – all, but only a supplemental part of the solution to a much bigger problem.

Desalination of seawater could also play a role in the overall water problem. Provided of course, that environmentalists don’t also object to large desalination plants for some reason in the future (such as ruining beautiful beach and shoreline scenery and being an eyesore, and etc.).

Now go back and read ALL of what I posted with an open mind.

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Hemp and focus fusion could also compliment each other in many other ways. The desalination of ocean water with focus fusion could convert much of the deserts of the Southwest into a hemp growing region for food, fuels, and construction materials. It could also transform the Australian outback and the Sahara of Northern Africa into new hemp growing regions as well. It would make the large-scale economic production of water to do this within practical reach.

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