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Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:05 pm**

Originally Posted by Jacques

I need to confirm some point before eleborating more on that.
1- What is the probability that a H+ ion accelerated to 580 keV hitting a solid boron piece fuse (do the fusion) ?
2- Is it possible to create an electric potential between the center of a sphere and its inside surface? Like having +500 kV at the center and 0 V at the inside surface .
Thanks

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Sounds like this guy is thinking on a large scale..

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:52 pm**

I would assume the hitch in his scheme is energy losses from protons that completely miss any boron nuclei. There is no provision in his scheme to recover the lost energy from these protons. Sure, you'll get some fusion... just not enough to be energy positive. That's what the Polywell claims to cure: ions that don't fuse get returned back to the core for another collision.

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:00 pm**

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/atta ... 1203536894

They dont yet get that its a virtual cathode.

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