Nuclear Fusion: Clean Power for the Next Hundred Centuries

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Google Tech Talks
Feb. 13, 2008

ABSTRACT

Presented by Dr. James Grossnickle

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, can also be harnessed for power on Earth. Present research in magnetic confinement fusion is promising and advancing. ITER (international thermonuclear experimental reactor), based on the tokamak configuration, has been sited and will begin construction soon. An alternate approach to a tokamak is being studied at the University of Washington, based on the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC). The FRC has a much simpler, linear geometry, as opposed to the toroidal structure of the tokamak, and extremely high b (the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure) which gives it tremendous advantages in size and cost, and also allows the potential to burn advanced fuels, and to be used in space applications.

Speaker: Dr. James Grossnickle, Research Scientist, Dept. Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington.

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  • • SandustanBrasov

    The test for nuclear fusion realisation on Tokamak's installations and with LASER cannot bring anything new for the energetics' future. I bind the thermonuclear controlled reactor schedule by the Sun model , by the reactive electromagnetic motor schedule from Palenque stone's tombe. You see the my project for thermonuclear controlled reactor.

    My e-mail: s.stan65@yahoo.com

    You see and You Tube: sandustanBrasov’s Channel

  • SandustanBrasov

    The spherical thermonuclear combustion chamber is formed from two joined semispherical parts. The feeding with fuel and electromagnetic filed flux it make through the oriffices from the central part of the semispheres, and the emergence in outside to the electromagnetic field flux it make through the maximum zone, where is joined the semispheres. The two high-speed motors are rotated in the same sense for to establishes a direct electric field between collectors.

  • SandustanBrasov

    This reactor has spherical combustion chamber, with inner magnetic trap, with the electromagnetic field realized outside and introduced inside the sphere with electromagnetic field and fuel introduction device, and direct colected possibilitys of electrcal energy, with semispherical collectors. The device of introduction is composed from: 1).-two high-speed motors with plasmatron in its central zone; 2).-two magnetic circuits for leading the electromagnetic field flux.

  • SandustanBrasov

    I turn the globe of plasma for to realize the magnetohydrodynamic principle of directly extraction of the particles of current(electrical ether). The atoms of helium after formation can pass through the texture of the magnetic trap as residue. The electromagnetic field of the magnetic trap must let enter with power for to space out, to press, and turn with 800 m/s the globe of plasma and afterwards fastly let go outside.

  • SandustanBrasov

    Feeding a superconductive coil with an electrical current it obtain in the her round only a magnetic field. But disposing in the round of the superconductive coil a certain magnetic and dielectric pieces, it obtain the variation of the electrical permitivity and of the magnetic permeability, which will transform the magnetic field of the superconductive coil in electromagnetic field, which can evolve(go) more faraway in space, without to close immediately the curl.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    I have invented not these opinions. I have made only o logical, rational and intuitive synthesis, heaving at base, in majority experimental, observed and demonstrated arguments. I have not something against the ITER, but against the utopian conceptions from the theoretical physics, with which are indoctrinated those 3000 of engineers anf physicists involved in the realization of the thermonuclear controllable fusion.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    In the magnetic trap of the tokamak it produce only magnetic field which it maintain in the round of the coil, without to fulfil the role of magnetic trap. The electromagnetic field can evolve(go) in space and in the interior of one spherical chamber, can be weaved in order to form a stratified network, which let hold the particles of the thermonuclear plasma.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The texture of toroidal, poloidal or stellarator magnetic field is too rare for to form a magnetic trap. The magnetic trap must let be one electromagnetic stratified wall with weaved at entrance and with disweaved at emergence. The magnetic wall of the magnetic trap is a wall with formation and continuous displacement.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The Sun has two sorts of magnetic fields:1)-the principal magnetic field of the solar magnetosphere which dress the solar mass;2)-the secondary magnetic fields which pass through the whirligig tubes by one hemisphere in another. Because the rotation of the solar mass the lines of the secondary magnetic fields are not parallel with the lines of the principal magnetic field, are adjacent and form at surface of the Sun a texture of magnetic lines as a magnetic wall.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Naw, the ITER can not be makerstars, because the his specialist know not how work the Sun with his principal components. In outside of incandescent solar mass exist: principal magnetic field(solar magnetosphere with magnetic trap); secondary magnetic fields(made by the whirl's tubes); radiations belt, The "butterfly" dyagram(with solar spots position in the ends of the whirl's tubes, which pass through the solar mass); whirl's tubes pressure; magnetic pressure by principal...

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