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  • in reply to: Plan B for Focus Fusion #2372
    Torulf
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    This is my thoughts of it.
    The plan B would be the D+D reaction or in best case D+He3. It may be best to reduce availability of uranium and production of radioactive waste.
    Plan C may be If only the D+T reaction can be made.
    This can be used in some hybrid reactor. A new generation of accelerator driven nuclear fission reactors is developing. These reactors can use U238, Thorium and radioactive waste as flue. They are safe and produce little amount of waste. To replace the accelerator with a DT burning DPF can increase it

    in reply to: Aneutronic fusion and "Tri Alpha Energy Inc." #2371
    Torulf
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    There is actual a tread about it with some links on this site.

    in reply to: Fusion Oil #2368
    Torulf
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    Here somting about a plasma method for turning garbage ito fule and glas.

    http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

    in reply to: Fusion Oil #2364
    Torulf
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    Here is a new technology for making gas and plastic from CO2 threw solar energy.
    http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18582/
    I think it cloud become more powerful with fusion.
    This may also be relevant.
    http://www.livescience.com/technology/070501_carbon_capture.html

    in reply to: $40million raised for boron fusion #2335
    Torulf
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    The Science article clergy chows they actual have an idea how to get rid of Todd

    in reply to: $40million raised for boron fusion #2323
    Torulf
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    [It

    in reply to: Boron availability #2322
    Torulf
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    Boron is the 6th common ion in the sea. 1m3 sea water contains 27.68g H3BO3.
    If the energy is used for desalination it can be possible to in same time extract the boron.

    in reply to: No-go for cheap fusion? #2321
    Torulf
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    Bussard have also “broken” the Todd

    in reply to: Animated plasma. #2293
    Torulf
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    I

    in reply to: Fusion X-prize petition started! #2178
    Torulf
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    Here is an old idea for an X-price for fusion.
    This is from 2001, hope I not com with old news.
    http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html

    in reply to: Fusion Oil #2175
    Torulf
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    Hydrogenated Pyrolysis may be useful in several ways.
    The gasoline become as an energy carrier for fusion energy.
    There are to problems how can be solved, waste problem and the replacement of oil.

    This sounds better than the present use of ethanol/methanol from this energy crops.
    Ethanol energy comes from sun and is already stored in the organic waist.
    From that I hear so do a car driven from ethanol made from energy crops, consume an amount of crop how is growing on corresponding area the car drive over.
    If this is the case may western cars will compete with third world people of the food.
    This may be avoiding if we can use fusion to make the fuel from waste and smaller volumes of crop.

    There may be lots of organic waste to use. We have lots of organic waste from paper industry and sewer water how is a big problem. This can be turned in to a resource. Garbage is now burn for house heating. Should it not be better to drive cars on it and heat houses from fusion electricity?
    This may also reduce fusion resistant from oil companies how can use parts of there old infra structure.

    But this will also conserve some problem from the fossil fuel era.
    Some of the cars pollution problems remains, (NOx, hydro carbons, oil spill).

    The largest danger may be if they are making fuel from coal. This is already in the plans for counter the oil turn pike. South Africa and China have advanced planes for making gas from coal in (HTR) high temperature (fission) reactors. In this way fusion oil may continue the CO2 emission.

    in reply to: Fantastic news. #2131
    Torulf
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    The Bussard system is more limited than DPF. It

    in reply to: Fall-back position? #2104
    Torulf
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    If God or Tod forbids Bp fusion it is more ways to obtain neutron free fusion threw He3.
    DD fusion may be used in big power facilities equipped to take care of radioactive waste and tritium. These facilities can also extract the produced He3 and distribute it to DPF devises located near the humans.
    He3 may also be mined on the moon, but this may be a large step.
    It would be interesting to hear the researchers ideas of a plan B.

    Torulf
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    Ok I was wrong. The concept may probably reduce the Bremsstrahlung with no help by strong magnetic fields.
    The electrons are drawn to the outer electrode and the ions to the void in the central electrode.
    Hence few electron-ion collisions and for that reason little X-ray cooling. There seems to be several ways to go round Todds thesis.

    More links.
    http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec/ftisite1.htm
    http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/fti

    Torulf
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    Ops writing again in this tread. Now I think I understand a little bit more.
    The main component of energy loss according to Todds thesis are the “Bremsstrahlung”.
    And this is the same as X-ray cooling.
    If Lener are right abut the magnetic field effect there is no problem for the focus fusion
    but probably for the inertial-electrostatic confinement fusion.

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