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Outline of areas of fusion investigation

Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 12:14 am
by Frank Sanns
Welcome to the advanced discussion area of fusor.net Please use this area for advanced presentation of data and for collaboration on fusor projects.

To kick this off, I am posting an outline that I made from what we on fusor.net were working on back in 2004. It is not exhaustive but you can see it is quite a bit more technical than just building a fusor. Hopefully it will stimulate some of the more scientific in the group to push this work forward.


FUSION-THEORETICAL
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement
-----Chamber Geometry
----------Spherical
----------Cylindrical
----------Crosses
----------Cubical
----------Ultra high volume
----------Ultra low volume
-----Grid Geometry
----------Spherical
----------Cylindrical
----------Concentric
----------Toroidal
----------Point
-----Grid Design
----------Wire
----------Lattice/mesh
----------Washer
----------Plasma electrodes
----------Point electrodes
-----Grid composition
----------Ceramics
----------High temperature (W, Ta, Re...)
----------Fuel absorbers (Pd, Ti,.....)
----------Fuel emitters (LiD, B,......)
-----Gases
----------Fusable Gases (Deuterium, Tritium, Boron.....)
----------Fissionable Gases (mostly Hi Z....)
----------Gas Mixtures (Argon, Xenon, D2O....)
-----Increase the number of Ions
----------Ion Guns
----------RF Guns
----------Filament Guns
----------Lasers
-----Mean Free Path
----------Recirculation
----------High pressure ne pass
-----Location of fusion in a fusor
-----Targets
----------Deuterium
----------Metal latices (Ti, Pd etc.)
-----Pulse Mode
----------Descrete or intermittent pulses
----------RF
Colliders
-----Liniacs
-----Cyclotrons
-----Multicusp
-----Z pinch


FUSION-PRACTICAL POWER PRODUCTION
------Targeted Systems
----------High ion current devices
------Hybrid Systems
----------Boron Shell to capture neutrons and release heat
----------Cold/hot fusion hybrid
----------U238 energy multiplication

Re: Outline of areas of fusion investigation

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 9:31 am
by Dennis P Brown
Well, I hope to investigate a spherical cathode - just installed one in my fusor. However, until I get my 3He detector working, have to wait on any results.

I did show that a large chamber fusor can be made to 'act' as a small chamber by adding a grounding mess 'anode' in a larger chamber around the cathode. This resulted in my large chamber operating at a significantly higher pressure (went from 12 microns to 25 microns.) This in turn increased the neutron rate by a factor of almost two.