Spread a lot of cathodes around the outside of a vacuum chamber and target a deterium anode in the center.
If the cold fusionists can use electrons, under equal peotection, so can you.
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Electron Beams for Fusion
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Where do you want that Nobel prize sent?
John
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It was probably the first thing they tried.
They have all kinds of deals where they convert eletron beams to radiation and vice versa for fusion.
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Electrons won't work, but it's not hard to whack duterium with duterium or tritium ions to get fusion... it just takes a couple hundred KEV or something. The net energy yield will be some insanely small fraction of a per cent.
John
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< Electrons won't work, but it's not hard to
< whack duterium with duterium or tritium
< ions to get fusion...
This was supposed to replace lasers compressing/heating a glass capsule of D2 but either the energy density isn't as high as lasers or something.
Bret Cahill
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You need density to get worthwhile fusion output. If you accelerate one duterium ion at another, or at a lump of same, that takes a lot of energy, and most of the time they'll just bounce off one another and not fuse. If the fuel is dense and very hot, a missed collision wastes no energy and the nuclei have many, many chances to try it again until they finally connect and fuse. Stars do it by gravity, and h-bombs use a fission bomb to briefly achieve the sort of temperature and density needed to get productive fusion. Just accelerating particles isn't enough.
John