Hi, I am a retired physicist engineer who worked in the aerospace industry for 38 years before retiring in 1990. I was first introduced to fusion in 1952 at the Glenn L. Martin Co. in 1952 by Marvin Hewitt (the great and brilliant impersonator). I attended a lecture by Lyman Spitzer at Princeton in 1955 when he promised a working thermonuclear reactor in 5 years at a cost of $900M. The advent of cold fusion interested me. The death of Spitzer reawakened my curiosity about the feasability of nuclear fusion, hot or cold. That led me to put together my own thoughts and experience with information from libraries and the internet. I came to the conclusion that hot and cold fusion are the same phenomenon seen from different viewpoints. None of the current lines of research appears to me to indicate a clear path to development of a commercially viable power plant. I have read about Farnsworth for years and admired his genius and productivity. Searching for fusion sites on the web led me to the fusor site. I certainly admire the enterprise of members who contribute from their own backgrounds to the understanding of fusion devices. I have organized my own ideas on what I think is another approach to a nuclear internal combustion engine. It is not a fusor, Pons device, sonofusion, Tokamak, ITER, or colliding beam device. It may have insurmountable problems that others might identify for me after I put together my notes into readable shape. Although my approach probably would contribute nothing to your study of the fusor, I would be glad to send an abbreviated version of my notes to you in the near future if you are interested.
Created on Friday, January 26, 2001 5:31 PM EDT by charles h kelley