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Has anybody seen the Rotating Plasma Heat Engine?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:50 pm
by drmike
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...
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:26 pm
by scareduck
The illustration on slide 12 of the second link makes it look like it's about half the size of the
UK JET reactor.
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:36 pm
by MSimon
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:19 am
by scareduck
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/