http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars ... %0A&d=PG01
I say 'strange' because of its curiously incredulous nature... yet a very big list of LLNL signees as inventors, and Gov sponsorhip of it.
(I would go so far as to say that any patent arising would be challengeable, because you just can't get that many people to invent a single concept!! Maybe two or three, four even, batting around an idea over a beer, but 10 is a bit unbelievable)
A strange fusion-fission fuel patent out today.
Yes, they are working. I was just trying to understand why I wasn't able to reach Uspto.gov.
It comes out that using the mobile Internet provider I am using from home I cannot connect to any .gov website. They are all blacklisted.
When I am in China I cannot connect to .org, when at home I cannot connect to .gov websites. Go wonder......
It comes out that using the mobile Internet provider I am using from home I cannot connect to any .gov website. They are all blacklisted.
When I am in China I cannot connect to .org, when at home I cannot connect to .gov websites. Go wonder......
Unfortunately is Telecom Italy Mobile, our main national provider.chrismb wrote:Chinese mobile company!?Giorgio wrote:It comes out that using the mobile Internet provider I am using from home I cannot connect to any .gov website. They are all blacklisted.
When I am in China I cannot connect to .org, when at home I cannot connect to .gov websites. Go wonder......
Maybe tomorrow morning I will discover that China finally bought Italy.
That would explain everything!
It looks like they are trying to patent a fuel particle makeup for laser inertial confinement. I wonder, is it a fusion reaction that provides neutrons for fision criticality, thus boosting output, tough at the cost of more fallout , or is it the other way around, the fision criticality (due to compression) providing the heating to fuse a D-T fuel- much like a hydrogen bomb. This would seem to be a compromise if the lasers cannot directly result in the necessary heating of a fusion fuel alone.
Dan Tibbets
Dan Tibbets
To error is human... and I'm very human.
Interesting. The LLNL web site used to have plenty of references to a hybrid fusion-fission reactor. At one point LIFE stood for "Laser Inertial-Confinement Fusion-Fission Energy", or (about the same time) "Laser Inertial Fusion-Fission Energy". Now it seems they've scrubbed many references to the fusion-fission plan, and LIFE now stands for the less cumbersome "Laser Inertial Fusion Energy". Whether the change was due to some reason for optimism for pure fusion, a desire for a (slightly) more elegant reactor design (and acronym expansion), or a desire to distance LLNL's work from Fukushima's troubles, who can say?
Temperature, density, confinement time: pick any two.
Re: A strange fusion-fission fuel patent out today.
Brainstorming session? Over beer and pretzels?chrismb wrote: (I would go so far as to say that any patent arising would be challengeable, because you just can't get that many people to invent a single concept!! Maybe two or three, four even, batting around an idea over a beer, but 10 is a bit unbelievable)
Re: A strange fusion-fission fuel patent out today.
Pretzels? Sign me on!KitemanSA wrote:Brainstorming session? Over beer and pretzels?
