A fast route to small-scale ICF fusion?
A fast route to small-scale ICF fusion?
Fusion reactions in high-density hydrogen: A fast route to small-scale fusion?
A researcher in my home town have produced “high-density deuterium”. Sorry, the latest news only in Swedish. Leif Holmlid says it can be possible for laser fusion to utilise the D+D reaction.
really long url
http://www2.chem.gu.se/~holmlid/index.html
A researcher in my home town have produced “high-density deuterium”. Sorry, the latest news only in Swedish. Leif Holmlid says it can be possible for laser fusion to utilise the D+D reaction.
really long url
http://www2.chem.gu.se/~holmlid/index.html
I've no reason to doubt it. But the mechanism in this posited fusion process is a beam-target mechanism, no magentic field required. The target's superconductivity, or not, is as relevant as it is pink, or not.Torulf2 wrote:Metallic high density hydrogen is bedewed to be supra conducting in high temperatures. The strong magnetic field of the planet Jupiter may come from this.
Metalic hydrogen may be a super conducter at high temperatures, but the pressures needed to form and maintain metallic hydrogen are tremendous- ie the inner cores of massive planets. I'm assumeing that the difficulty of achieving this condition is far, far more challenging than those of using liquid helium for conventional super conducters.
Dan Tibbets
Dan Tibbets
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This and a couple of other articles hint that they can produce compressed hydrogen , similar to if not the same as metallic hydrogen. What is potentially amasing, if true, is that they hint that it may be stable for significant periods of time ( no definition of what significant means- it might be anywhere from 1 picosecond to eons). They mention that when if breaks down through "coulomb explosion" severl hundred electron volts of energy are released. Irregardless weather this could be applied to fusion reactions, it would make a tremendously powerful form of stored energy similar to some press a few years ago where some were claiming thay could control the halflife of certain nuclear isomers. Not a way to produce energy, but a way to store it in a condensed high energy form usefull for space craft and bombs.Torulf2 wrote:More here.
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=4781
Dan Tibbets
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I seem to remember reading in science news ~1 year ago that a lab managed to create what could have been metallic hydrogen. It was only a few atoms worth for a very sort time, but allowed some analysis. It was of interest because they could make any.D Tibbets wrote:
This and a couple of other articles hint that they can produce compressed hydrogen , similar to if not the same as metallic hydrogen.
EDIT: Indeed, it would appear that they have been doing it for years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
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