IEC Fusion for Dummies v5.7

A schematic look at electron & ion flow in DR. Bussards WB6 IEC/Polywell fusion reactor. GO to http://www.emc2fusion.org/
for more information.

Dr Bussard is the former Assistant Director of the US Atomic Energy Commission, he was the father of the US Fusion effort from the 1970's into the 1980's. As the Assistant Dir. of the AEC, Dr. Bussard went to Congress and pushed the fusion research programs in the 70's that developed the Tokamak design.

Dr Bussard now advocates a different design. For the last 11 years he has been working under US Navy contracts, building small test devices.

Why is this important? World oil production peaked in May of 2005. Dr Bussard says for 200 million he can build a proof of concept reactor by about 2011. The ITER reactor in Europe will be finished by 2013, and the concept may be ready for power generation by 2025. The ITER is slated to cost 13.3 billion. More importantly $3 million keeps Dr. Bussard working. The next step is build variations on the 3 foot square WB6, to test tweaks in the design, before building a full size model. DR Bussard envisions the full size reactor to be about 9 foot square.

When the father of modern fusion tells you the Tokamak wont work, he bears listening to. Funny thing about fusion, it occurs naturally in a sphere (the SUN), just like Dr Bussards design. The ITER reactor will try to create fusion in a donut or torus, which doesn't happen in nature. Its been pointed out to me that that is an oversimplification, yes it is, but I like it none the less

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[PoisonFist31489]

The diagram of the electrons moving through the field isn't ENTIRELY correct.

The force on an electron in a magnetic field is V x B, where V and B are the velocity and magnetic field vectors, respectively: electrons will actually spiral about lines that trace through the vector field B.

[FogerRox]

Poison, thanks. Yes the detail in the video is very simple or non existant. I hope to working with Dr NEbel on a new video to be released late this year.

Roger.

[iplaysax]

The claim is that the best, cheapest, most easily accessible oil peaked in 2005. The rest of the stuff is harder to get, and it could peak soon. I've heard that there is some difficulty in estimating oil reserves due to shady accounting in oil-producing countries. Maybe that's why I've also heard some disagreement about whether oil production peaked overall in 2005. Anyway, we're running out.

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[MrFreddyFeatures]

so where is the "Electro-static confinment " part.

[Stoney3K]

@wtrmute I'm not talking about 'jumping' to 'alternate universes'. And even the limit of speeds under the speed of light, is only applicable to the local space surrounding the spacecraft. It does not have to be an observer far away. Guys like Alcubierre (and Heim) got this.

Or, to put it in the words of Montgomery Scott:

"Aye, I never imagined space as being the thing that's moving!"

[wtrmute]

@Stoney3K Even if Heim's theory pans out, we probably can't jump to the alternate universes. If the speed of light changes, then alpha (the fine-structure constant) changes as well and chemistry stops working (who knows, maybe titanium will become unstable and decay, trashing your spaceship). Thus, we're limited to speeds under c.

[breakablec]

This is how I imagine actual pB fusion: you should probably have protons circulating and confining B+ ions. Then you increase the charge of the cusps - add more protons until the center is dense enough for fusion, and some protons go into the center due to cusps charge, and fuse with B+.

[breakablec]

I am not physicist, but I think this explanation could be incorrect. I think electrons have nothing to do in pB fusion, because they should not be able to confine positive charged particles (such as protons if they have a negative charge. I think that electrons were used to prove recirculation and diagnose problems.

[ianshiell]

We will not see this, we might see a dumb down version for public reactors and such. What Bussard wanted was something that would fuse buron-II which could in theory make salt water into fresh water. But the plan is to lower the population people, not to stabilize it. Rich people on the top will not allow this to reach full swing, unless it can be made into the weapon. Sad but this is how the world works, time and time again.

[corotor12345]

@Stoney3K

Please explain that further

[simharry3]

@stoney3k, that would be faster than the speed of light. :(

[Stoney3K]

Polywell + Heim's proposed drive system: Neptune and back in six minutes.