Re: dynamic fusor patent, Salvatore Pais
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:54 pm
Fusion will not be like fission. Fission is the classic cocked gun. Just like wood, coal and gas, all we have to do is gather this ammo load it into the energy gun...(Furnace, boiler, car engine), and pull the trigger. To get fission going, we just move the pieces of U235 close together and it happens, energy galore! (Actually we load the stuff in the reactor to criticality, but with neutron absorbing rods to prevent a run away, then pull the rods out as needed to obtain just the right amount of energy we want. This is all the result of failing fusion many Billions of years ago when a massive super nova had the energy needed to form Uranium atoms and stored that last gasp of stellar energy in those atoms in the form of nuclear binding energy.
Currently, this is exactly what our fusion based, gravity powered sun does and has been doing for us albeit at the chemical level here on earth. Early man relied on solar fusion to grown trees and other vegetation so he could burn the stuff to keep warm, make his huts,etc. (Chemical energy) More recently man has used solar fusion energy stored in the the oil, coal and gas produced millions of years ago from decaying, compressed things that once lived and died back then. (Again, chemical energy) In the 20th century we learned about nuclear energy and again hunter-gathered Uranium with its bounty of stored dying star energy. This energy made chemical energy look feeble by comparison. Solar cells are another joke power source on a large scale without acres of land needed for megawatt battery systems.
The very best use of current solar energy with the greatest immediate and direct conversion return is hydro power. The sun lifts billions of tons of water into the atmosphere which ultimately falls upon the high ground and then we dam up this water and use gravity to generate gigawatts of hydro power. Hydro power would not be possible if gravity did not exist. For it is gravity and gravity alone that makes stars and thus fusion and causes water to seek its lowest potential energy. (Water falls off a man-made cliff slamming into turbine blades to turn the generator.) The universe is powered and kept active solely by potential energies acting on matter. There is no innate kinetic energy or light in the universe that the potential energies did not bring forth, from light to motion.
Finally back to fusion.....No matter what we do, fusion will require tremendous input energy to force whatever ions we choose to defeat the safety mechanism that nature has put in place to prevent stars from going off like firecrackers in the night sky. This is the electrostatic repulsion between protons (positive nuclei) and the potential energy found in the Quantum barrier in which probabilities rule. These probabilities typically mandate that the house always comes out the winner and you suffer the net losses.
So, it turns out we have been using fusion energy from the time we stole fire from the gods to burn stuff. We are trying to abandon our chemical energy bounty only of late as we feel it sullies our atmosphere. The fission bounty is shunned as it seems to make a lot of unacceptable waste. Fusion is the be all and end all now and, as I say, "it always will be"
Hope, as they say, springs eternal and there is always my lucky donkey concept...Some person like Becquerel who might trip over the solution while doing something else. Does this lucky donkey walk among us yet?
Richard Hull
Currently, this is exactly what our fusion based, gravity powered sun does and has been doing for us albeit at the chemical level here on earth. Early man relied on solar fusion to grown trees and other vegetation so he could burn the stuff to keep warm, make his huts,etc. (Chemical energy) More recently man has used solar fusion energy stored in the the oil, coal and gas produced millions of years ago from decaying, compressed things that once lived and died back then. (Again, chemical energy) In the 20th century we learned about nuclear energy and again hunter-gathered Uranium with its bounty of stored dying star energy. This energy made chemical energy look feeble by comparison. Solar cells are another joke power source on a large scale without acres of land needed for megawatt battery systems.
The very best use of current solar energy with the greatest immediate and direct conversion return is hydro power. The sun lifts billions of tons of water into the atmosphere which ultimately falls upon the high ground and then we dam up this water and use gravity to generate gigawatts of hydro power. Hydro power would not be possible if gravity did not exist. For it is gravity and gravity alone that makes stars and thus fusion and causes water to seek its lowest potential energy. (Water falls off a man-made cliff slamming into turbine blades to turn the generator.) The universe is powered and kept active solely by potential energies acting on matter. There is no innate kinetic energy or light in the universe that the potential energies did not bring forth, from light to motion.
Finally back to fusion.....No matter what we do, fusion will require tremendous input energy to force whatever ions we choose to defeat the safety mechanism that nature has put in place to prevent stars from going off like firecrackers in the night sky. This is the electrostatic repulsion between protons (positive nuclei) and the potential energy found in the Quantum barrier in which probabilities rule. These probabilities typically mandate that the house always comes out the winner and you suffer the net losses.
So, it turns out we have been using fusion energy from the time we stole fire from the gods to burn stuff. We are trying to abandon our chemical energy bounty only of late as we feel it sullies our atmosphere. The fission bounty is shunned as it seems to make a lot of unacceptable waste. Fusion is the be all and end all now and, as I say, "it always will be"
Hope, as they say, springs eternal and there is always my lucky donkey concept...Some person like Becquerel who might trip over the solution while doing something else. Does this lucky donkey walk among us yet?
Richard Hull