C. Barns worked with Nebel on the original POPS. He's now suggesting a new way to do pB11 fusion. It looks interesting, and I'm wondering if anyone here has seen it before:
fire.pppl.gov/fpa06_barnes.ppt
http://www.iccworkshops.org/icc2006/upl ... estalk.pdf
It won't fit in my basement though...
Has anybody seen the Rotating Plasma Heat Engine?
The illustration on slide 12 of the second link makes it look like it's about half the size of the UK JET reactor.
They are building a B11 cyclotron and then injecting protons with a linear accelerator?
The B11 cyclotron being run at 1000 ATM - ie. 15,000 psi. and the MFP is 400M? I dunno. Sounds fishy.
And how do they keep all that B11 confined and deal with condensation problems?
And then they depend on a thermal cycle at probably 1000K or above for energy extraction?
POPS? I think they are stretching it unless they mean synchronizing the proton pulses with the Boron rotation.
As they say in the pdf. Some engineering required.
The B11 cyclotron being run at 1000 ATM - ie. 15,000 psi. and the MFP is 400M? I dunno. Sounds fishy.
And how do they keep all that B11 confined and deal with condensation problems?
And then they depend on a thermal cycle at probably 1000K or above for energy extraction?
POPS? I think they are stretching it unless they mean synchronizing the proton pulses with the Boron rotation.
As they say in the pdf. Some engineering required.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
1. Steal underpants.
2. ??
3. Profit!
Okay, I'm being too skeptical. Here's his paper from Journal of Fusion Energy explaining it in detail:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q2mp5k48ll765348/
2. ??
3. Profit!
Okay, I'm being too skeptical. Here's his paper from Journal of Fusion Energy explaining it in detail:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q2mp5k48ll765348/