Outline of areas of fusion investigation

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Frank Sanns
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Outline of areas of fusion investigation

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Welcome to the advanced discussion area of fusor.net Please use this area for advanced presentation of data and for collaboration on fusor projects.

To kick this off, I am posting an outline that I made from what we on fusor.net were working on back in 2004. It is not exhaustive but you can see it is quite a bit more technical than just building a fusor. Hopefully it will stimulate some of the more scientific in the group to push this work forward.


FUSION-THEORETICAL
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement
-----Chamber Geometry
----------Spherical
----------Cylindrical
----------Crosses
----------Cubical
----------Ultra high volume
----------Ultra low volume
-----Grid Geometry
----------Spherical
----------Cylindrical
----------Concentric
----------Toroidal
----------Point
-----Grid Design
----------Wire
----------Lattice/mesh
----------Washer
----------Plasma electrodes
----------Point electrodes
-----Grid composition
----------Ceramics
----------High temperature (W, Ta, Re...)
----------Fuel absorbers (Pd, Ti,.....)
----------Fuel emitters (LiD, B,......)
-----Gases
----------Fusable Gases (Deuterium, Tritium, Boron.....)
----------Fissionable Gases (mostly Hi Z....)
----------Gas Mixtures (Argon, Xenon, D2O....)
-----Increase the number of Ions
----------Ion Guns
----------RF Guns
----------Filament Guns
----------Lasers
-----Mean Free Path
----------Recirculation
----------High pressure ne pass
-----Location of fusion in a fusor
-----Targets
----------Deuterium
----------Metal latices (Ti, Pd etc.)
-----Pulse Mode
----------Descrete or intermittent pulses
----------RF
Colliders
-----Liniacs
-----Cyclotrons
-----Multicusp
-----Z pinch


FUSION-PRACTICAL POWER PRODUCTION
------Targeted Systems
----------High ion current devices
------Hybrid Systems
----------Boron Shell to capture neutrons and release heat
----------Cold/hot fusion hybrid
----------U238 energy multiplication
Achiever's madness; when enough is still not enough. ---FS
We have to stop looking at the world through our physical eyes. The universe is NOT what we see. It is the quantum world that is real. The rest is just an electron illusion. ---FS
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Re: Outline of areas of fusion investigation

Post by Dennis P Brown »

Well, I hope to investigate a spherical cathode - just installed one in my fusor. However, until I get my 3He detector working, have to wait on any results.

I did show that a large chamber fusor can be made to 'act' as a small chamber by adding a grounding mess 'anode' in a larger chamber around the cathode. This resulted in my large chamber operating at a significantly higher pressure (went from 12 microns to 25 microns.) This in turn increased the neutron rate by a factor of almost two.
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