Nuclear Fusion: DPF Animation

What is the dense plasma focus, and how does it work to achieve nuclear fusion? Could it be used to achieve net energy?

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Science & Technology

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• DPF
• focus
• fusion
• aneutronic
• dense
• plasma
• focusfusion.org

[oscaragp]

can an aneutronic fusion produce cold fusion too?

[FocusFusionSociety]

@oscaragp Nope. Cold fusion is something else entirely. Hasn't been shown to produce fusion at all. In contrast, Aneutronic fusion is very HOT. Billions of degrees. The Dense Plasma Focus does, in fact, currently achieve fusion. The current experiment is to see if it can produce net energy from that fusion - more energy out than is put in.

[hhelsley]

For a real production process for fusion (70+:1) see You Tube "StarPower for Tomorrow" and visit Fusion Power Corporation's web site. You will be amazed!

Also the Google Tech Talk on Heavy Ion Fusion !!

[FocusFusionSociety]

@huntersdman Uranium? Now you're talking fission. Tritium - not the DPF. If it succeeds, it will be using boron and hydrogen.

[huntersdman]

@FocusFusionSociety Im a huge supporter of fusion power Including the ITER project in France. But would the reactor run on tritium, uranium? and how often would fuel need to be replenished, and exactly how much energy could it produce continuously? I mean the sun is a natural fusion reactor so it sounds like the answer to all our energy problems.

[sandustanBrasov]

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.

[bigboy45454545]

Rack your brain. Get this stuff going, no pressure. A person looking at something completely different will come up with the answer for keeping the reaction going. Everyone else after will be facepalming hard as to why they couldn't see it. Or we'll just die, I don't know. I hope not. 

[Hypergalactica]

Oh my Gawd I WISH ALL HOPE FOR YOU GUYS TO SUCCEED!!!! A clean energy breakthrough like would be the REAL key to ending dependence on coal and natural gas, and we would go through peak oil less scathed. And I hear you can build a plasma drive for spacecraft out of this - meaning that we could still colonize the solar system even after oil runs out!! (but what fuel would your reactor use and how is it "cheap")? I REALLY HOPE you guys succeed.

[kalisz1974]

@oscaragp Thermal boron 11+proton fusion is itself aneutoronic. There are though some side reactions (boron reacting with primary reaction product (alpha) plus low crossection reaction producing carbon 11 and neutron). C11 is itself radioactive but short lived (~20min half life) and in a few hours its neglible. All those side reactions are just 1/1000 of primary thus amounts produced are about 1000x less than in D+T fusion.One could safely enter reactor chamber just few hours after shutdown.

[kalisz1974]

@oscaragp in normal fission (classical atomic reactors) there are 2 sources of persisting radiation. 1 is burnt fuel (very radioactive and long term troublesome), 2 is induced radioactivity by neutrons (neutrons 'stick' to nuclei in the reactor innards and shield and transmute them into often radioactive isotopes. This is just mid term troublesome, though. In neutronic fusion there is no 1 (products are benign) abut there is 2 at about 100x more. Pure aneutronic fusion leaves no 1 nor 2!

[kalisz1974]

@jeff42951 but to produce hydrogne you need more energy than you could obtain from cells. Fuel cells and likes are just an (rahther inefficient) means of storing energy produced elsewhere.

[jeff42951]

I think that hydrogen fuel cells are getting pretty powerful. There efficiency is now up to 40%.