Dave Bright, Goderich Ontario Canada…currently my WordPress home page.
current top link…
To become a site to teach people about fusion and help towards finding a viable commercial reactor that can supply energy without contributing to global warming. I have some design ideas. Some interesting links here…and links to my sub-pages.
Feb 12, 2023 starting back at this, just a couple of links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments
see projects and organizations this site frozen in 2021 but still good list https://www.fusionenergybase.com/
Below here is 2021
- how fusion converts hydrogen to helium within our Sun and how other stars create heavier elements
- fusion and physics experiments on Earth, past and present:
- ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is the largest tokamak reactor now being built https://www.iter.org/
- NIF (National Ignition Facility) targeted laser 2010 https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/what-is-nif
- General Fusion (Canada) Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) https://generalfusion.com/
- Lockheed Martin https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion.html
- list of tokamak reactors to date http://www.tokamak.info/
- https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider
My goal is to learn, gather, and organize enough information about fusion to be useful as a learning tool to other individuals. The intention is to create a hierarchically organized tree of documents, and the focus for the first two or three levels will be at a high-school level students, but to keep the root-level documents at a grade 5 comprehension level, with higher levels of understanding and complexity being found by drilling further.
I am currently a “Pro-Fusion for Energy” person, but in order to be successful, a commercial energy producing fusion reactor will need to lay out all of the problems associated with getting there
While the large tokamak route is a possible solution, and ITER is the leader continuing on the way of this 50 year path, I currently think they are too difficult and expensive to get us to a commercial reactor in the next 20 years. So I am watching Lockheed Martin (in their “Skunkworks Department”), and General Fusion in Canada as alternatives, and intend to create a list of all other possible solutions that are either underway, or just theories.
I will create a list of all the problems with fusion by extracting them from articles like this one…pitfalls of fusion:
I have my own idea or theory which I have had since 2010 which I need to verify if it is even at all possible. Even if this is totally non-workable, my goal is to get as many others interested as possible in dreaming up alternative solutions and theories.
- inject bundles of deuterium/tritium and possibly other elements as catalysts in an accelerator (the way that the LHC Large Hadron Collider works) into a target position at a rate of say 30 per second
- there, they will be zapped by lazers (like NIF) and/or some magnetic compression method
- the resulting products are swept away for the next zap. These products will include unprocessed deuterium and tritium to be recycled, helium ash to be removed (that is the stuff we want to see!), and neutrons and other goodies to be described later.
- the next zap occurs
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