Re: tesla and fusion

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Original poster: "Chris Rutherford" <chrismrutherford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fusion from electricity has been proven to work, take the Farnsworth 
Fusor for example.  This can be made with basic materials and such as 
a HV source and a vacuum pump.  Numerous people have measured 
neutrons coming from this device, proving that the " 40 -100 million 
degrees Kelvin" is being reached.  Unfortunately due to inefficiency 
it never reaches over unity.  Maybe it doesn't reach the 1Bn K for mass fusion?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

A modification to the Fusor is to replace the grid/gause at the 
centre with a series of external magnets to accelerate the electrons 
to the center and create the "electron well", which in turn 
accelerates the positive ions through the centre in a figure of 8 
motion, conserving energy and accelerating all the time.  Some 
Deuterium ions collide in the center with enough "heat" to overcome 
the coulomb barrier and fuse. This was shown to have results around 
1000 times better than the fusor.

This vid about the magnetic Fusor is interesting

<http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606>http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

In concussion, can fusion be done with a TC, YES.  Can it be 
sustainable and over unity, Yet to be proven.

Thanks

Chris Rutherford

On 5/3/07, Tesla list <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: Mike <<mailto:megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>

I looked at this guy's website and his explanation of it....sounds
much like pseudoscience.    I can't take a guy too seriously who uses
the work resonant instead of resonate  many times.   Heck,  I do
applaud his trying though.
Mike



Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" 
<<mailto:gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >

Hi Steve,

You may be interested to know that in order to get two interacting
particles to fuse, the nuclei need to approach within an order of
10^-14 m.  This is about 1/10000 of the diameter of a hydrogen
atom.  The nuclear radius of a particle is generally taken to be
1.5*10^(-15)*A^(1/3) where A is the atomic weight of the particle (A
needs to be less than 20 for fusion to occur). The obstacle to having
this occur is the coulomb barrier.  In order to have enough kinetic
energy to over come this barrier and get to about 10^-14 m, the
kinetic energy needs to be:

Ue = 1.44 * 10^5 * Z1*Z2 ev

where Z1 and Z2 are the atomic numbers of the two interacting particles

The temperature needed to get great numbers of fusion reactions is
about 1 billion degrees Kelvin.  The temperature needed to get some
reactions can be as low as 40 million degrees Kelvin but generally it
is thought that 100 million degrees Kelvin is needed for fusion.

Gerry R.


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