Heavy water musings

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IMO it's an interesting idea, I think the basic idea of a focused
shockwave is a vary promising approach. However…

Water is compressible in extreme situations such as anywhere near
fusion energy’s so the shockwaves are not going to be as sharp as
you might hope for.

You are expending a lot of energy exciting the oxygen. The increase
in available D might be useful but it would be much better to have
similar levels of gas without the oxygen contamination. I don’t know
what it would take to get similar gas densities outside of D2O.

As you increase the temperature of the water you are going to have
pressure containment issues simply to the rise in temperature. So a
good pressure release system is vary important otherwise your going
to get inconsistent results as you keep breaking parts of the system.

The cables are going to create all sorts of distortions around your
shock waves.

Your pulses are going to reduce the compression at the center so it’s
probably best to use the shortest pulse duration possible. Which
means timing is going to be a PITA.

I do think this is a good idea and welcome any experimental data.

PS: I don’t think there is anyway to approximate the propagation of
these shockwaves outside of supercomputer style simulations.
However, with a little experimentation you could probably get some of
the classic inertial fusion people interested and they have access to
the real big number crunchers...

Go for it
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This is a very ingenious idea. Somewhat like Capillary fusion. It should yield better counts. Keep the amps down to prevent electrolysis. Will take some serious containment. Generous steel construction should be needed. The Steam part has me a little baffled. When the water turns to steam it will try to increase 1400 times original size, but if contained, how much will have to be dealt with? I see how some of the weak parts could turn out to be strengths. This is really a great idea!!
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Repercussion in heavy water

Here is a rough design from a mix of ideas:

-Two high strength steel chambers (coated) are seperated by a hydrogen permeable metal, titanium in this case.

-The titanium has two cones machined on either side with a small hole drilled to connect the chambers.

-The titanium could be used as the Deuterium side of a slow electrolysis cell.

-Or, Create Positive water ions at titanium surface.

The water arc is used to create pressure waves in the Titanium.


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I have designed a discharge unit to test it. But there is interesting that if capacitor banks series resistance is vey small, it is better not to adapt impedances. See attached figure.
I have another design that provokes an oscillation at the desires frequency and level in order to meke resonate the chamber.
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For those posting a bit earlier....... I was never thinking of heating the water thermically. Goodness no! No where near boiling. I was looking at light, sharp electrical pulsing and only a few pulses or I would heat the water. I never worried about steam pressure, but more about the brisance of the dielectric explosion.

My work with the Graneaus and Hathaway published in the Journal of Plamsa physics on Water arc explosions showed that dumping many joules of rapid electrical discharge energy into 1 cc of water would not heat it at all, effectively. Little steam was produced but a tremendous dielectric based shock wave was produced.

We never could get a clear handle on the ultimate mechasnism, though we did hypothesize. And there it stands.

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I found this interesting link explaining how water is atomized (atomize=go to gas without heating). I do not know how it is possible: http://www.powerlabs.org/waterarc.htm
But as long as Lawson criterion if there is not enougth temperature it will be not fusion (Sun pressure at the center is >10^10 Atm (?) and only fuses a little part).
Is the test possible using iced water?: I think in iced water the pulse must be shorter but with more amplitude.
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Isentropic compression from a dielectric induced shock wave
OMG ! … it works …step one fusion

Is your paper posted here ?
Brisance …peek pressures and densities ??
Does it follow Riemann ???

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No the paper is not posted as it is the property of the Journal of Plasma Physics. It was reprinted by permission in Infinite Energy magazine, though, a few years back.

Again, WE WERE NOT looking at water arc explosions for fusion in our paper, but were looking at light water bond energy issues.

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