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LENR is mostly mysteries. At best one can say something odd happens often enough to be interesting, but what is happening, and the exact conditions to reproduce it, and whether it's nuclear, and whether (nuclear or not) it's useful is all still a mystery. Your opinion may be dated. There are many t...

The Navy has funded some very unorthodox energy technologies and for that they should be commended for their open minded approach. Included in these technologies are Polywell and LENR. The latest results in the LENR field will be discussed next month in San Francisco at the ACS conference. http://ww...

Man you guys are willing to be open to cold fusion, which has a sordid history and next to no evidence... but not other things which have copious amounts of evidence... it never ceases to amaze me. Josh, There is new evidence in Cold Fusion. As there is in climate science. Hide The Decline. Which o...

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A stick of dynamite contains roughly 2.1 MJ of energy.

You make a good point. The concept is premature, let along commercial. The concept needs tools that don’t yet exist. First, we need to get some sort of small fusion to work, then next some sort of small fusion/fission hybrid just to set the stage. First things first. I will depend on you guys for th...

This is a solid state device with high redundancy and no moving parts. You can get high reliability and availability out of that type of approach.
It is a nuclear battery. You don’t repair a battery, you buy a new one.

You don't need to be concerned with proliferation, that might be worth something.

Just looked more closely at the decay chain. Half life of 1.4E10 YEARS for alpha decay? Just how long should we be willing to wait for this power? Am I missing something? Perhaps. The title of this thread is "U232 can be a bridge to aneutronic fusion power". While it's true that nothing in this pro...

Read the chart from the U232 branch not the Th232 branch. We start out with pure u232 not Th232. Power from alphas will be about 1/6 of the total power from U232 itself. The U232 decay chain provides 5/6 of the total when in equilibrium. Power will build up over the first year from 1/6 power up to u...

If the fear of heavy gamma radiation can be overcome, a safe, proliferation proof nuclear battery could be developed supported by a purpose built fusion/fission hybrid infrastructure. The fear is easy enough to overcome with 10 or 20 ft thick concrete walls. Shipping will be a bitch. It would be te...

The decay chain from Uranium-232 produces around 43 MeV/atom. This compares well against a standard RTG at 5 MeV/atom and even fission at 180 MeV/atom. The total activity of a sample of U-232 peaks around 10 years after the sample is generated. The peak, however, is wide in that the activity has dec...

Axil, I guess us hapless pussies can't count on your support then. Pity. I guess I'll have to ask the Marines. I am predisposed by my ascetic and altruistic nature to heavily favor the underdog. The specter of hapless fusion supporters graveling under the hobnailed boots of mindless reactionary aut...

There are two basic applications for the fusion/fission hybrid as a source of neutrons; the Carlo Rubbia style electric power reactor and the thorium fuel factory as proposed by Hans A. Bethe. I do not favor the hybrid power reactor because of the material damage that very high energy neutrons infle...

The advocates of small fusion have a rude awakening ahead. Any machine that produces neutrons or could possibly produce neutrons at the hands of some perverted genius nuclear terrorist or rogue government willing to divert their entire gross national product to world domination will be subject to ai...

Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamic Stirring of Liquid Metals


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The advocates of hydrogen-boron (pB11) fusion on this site will be greatly disappointed in your skepticism about direct conversion of high energy radiation to electric power, also Eric Lerner. You don’t believe that Eric Lerner’s patented direct conversion of x-ray radiation to electric power will w...