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[Romain / rXg]

More links :)
I like the canadian design "general fusion":
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10002897/ten-serious-nuclear-fusion-projects-making-progress-around-the-world/#
ITER is looking for people tho ... (http://www.iter.org/)



On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:

> On 25/06/10 20:25, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Dong,
> >>
> >> Perhaps this is something you could get your teeth into:
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10385853.stm
> >>
> >> Big vacuum tube.
> >>
> >
> > "I would have thought there would be some sort of rules and laws about
> > messing around with nuclear fusion in your apartment"
>
> I hate to be pedantic about a report that did such a good job in letting me
> and
> others know about IEC fusion, *but*, the electricity gets produced
> directly,
> rather than via heat, because when the nuclei fuse you get a bunch of
> helium
> nuclei (if using the p-B11 fuel), and these are positive, and the electrons
> are
> there to drive a current throught the system, in theory, 85% efficiency or
> more.
> The problem is that the ions have to cycle around several times before
> their
> nuclei fuse, and the devil is in how you get the f**kers to fuse before
> they
> just hit a grid or a magnet or what-have-you. It's (relatively) easy to get
> fusion, but making it sustainable is rather the subject of some interesting
> research. The most promising (IMO) being IEC POPS - an oscillating plasma
> system
> that's also based on the original Farnsworth-Hirsch approach.
>
> The guy who started all this off, and the designer of the magnetic
> confinement
> system shown in the report, is a guy called Bussard. Passed away a couple
> of
> years ago. Any of you familiar with sci-fi may have heard of the Bussard
> ramjet.
> A talk given by Bussard to Google is online:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yzfx856
>
> Anyway, the fun thing is that a lot of this has a bit of a DIY sniff about
> it.
>
> Tony (HB)
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Romain
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