Oh, I missed.chrismb wrote:[Incidentally, you aksed where someone had ever suggested your beam-idea before, and this thread is but one example of someone discussing it.]
So, now you would like to take away the priority on idea from me?
Ok.
Here on my table is a Russian translation of M.O. Hagler, M.Kristiansen, An Introduction to Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, Texas Tech. University, Lexington Books, 1977
On the page 16 (may be another page number in English version) is written: Nuclear fusion in colliding beams of particles.
And there considered oppositely colliding nucleii beams and naturally claimed the impossibility of producing of net power by the execution fusion with this way.
Yes, the idea to use two colliding beams or beam hitting the certain fixed target has not any novelty.
For note: Now Dr. Norman Rostoker's team of Tri-Alpha company araised funding of more than 100 millions USD with idea to use colliding beams as I know in background plasma.
But please quote me where in your not short discussion you kindly linked, or elsewhere more has been proposed the idea to use passing through each other ions beams directed at the same direction but with different velocities and to use relativistic electron beam directed oppositely and only partially compensating the positive space charge. And externally applied longitudinal electric field for compensation of alignment of ion's velocities and electron's energy losses.
Thanks in advance.
I rather suspect that nothing is going to translate into your language, to your satisfaction.)