Fusors / Inertial Electrostatic Confinement reactors

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-25 02:02pm

What does everyone think of these? They can fuse Deuterium fuel with less input energy then Toks or standard Inertial Confinement. Incase you don't know wtf I'm talking about, heres a few links

fusor.net (more a wankfest then a serious website)
http://www.farnovision.com/chronicles/f ... latos.html (another wankfest but with more theory and info)

http://www.richmond.infi.net/%7Erhull/highenergy002.htm (Richard Hulls website, hes a big IEC amateur tester)
http://www.belljar.net/634fusor.pdf (article by Mr. Hull)

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec/MainPage/ftisite1.htm (University of Wisconsin IEC lab homepage)

Opinions? Personally I think with more work it might actually be the best hope for fusion power. Megnetic confinement is so costly when it comes to input energy and ICF hasn't proven to be cheap enough..

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-01-25 02:11pm

So, without really reading the articles, does this mean they can break-even on the power input : output ratio? Do we potentially have a working fusion reactor here?

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-01-25 02:14pm

Umm, why are you posting these if you know they're mostly wankfests?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-25 02:19pm

no, they havent broken even yet. but they have the highest input-output that i know of. *edit* theres some reports that Farnsworth was able to achieve self sustained fusion for 30 some odd seconds which, if true, makes IEC the only design capable of doing so (other then stars

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and im posting them because their technical info isnt bad, just the whole technology "ignored for decades" and "betrayed scientist" thing makes it seem more like Alex Chiu then anything else. Thats not to say its incorrect (after all, the race to nuclear fission plants was heated and GA etc didnt need competition from fusion that was cheaper)

but it makes it soap-operaish.

NapoleonGH · Post by **NapoleonGH** » 2003-01-27 07:28pm

last i heard the PPPL claimed the title of the closest Input:Output ratio. Also claiming the title for the longest self sustained fusion reaction

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-27 07:53pm

PPPL can go suck one. Bastards dont even have an IEC reactor! LOL