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
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.
