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Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy

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On 6/3/15 10:28 AM, Jeff Hawkeye wrote:
>
> Without shortcuts in spacetime, cold-fusion is not possible. Altering the
> structure of spacetime is mandatory.
>

   Perhaps you missed the point -- hot fusion

Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy
> http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/06/mystery-company-blazes-trail-fusion-energy

 > Of the handful of startup companies trying to achieve fusion energy
 > via nontraditional methods, Tri Alpha Energy Inc. has always been the
 > enigma. Publishing little and with no website, but apparently sitting
 > on a cash pile in the hundreds of millions, the Foothill Ranch,
 > California–based company has been the subject of intense curiosity
 > and speculation. But last month Tri Alpha lifted the veil slightly
 > with two papers revealing that its device, dubbed the colliding beam
 > fusion reactor, has shown a 10-fold improvement in its ability to
 > contain the hot particles needed for fusion over earlier devices at
 > U.S. universities and national labs.
 >
 > “They’ve improved things greatly and are moving in a direction that
 > is quite promising,” says plasma physicist John Santarius of the
 > Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
 >
 > Fusion energy seeks to replicate the power source of the sun and
 > stars: heating atoms to enormous temperatures so that their nuclei
 > slam together with enough force to overcome their mutual repulsion
 > and fuse, releasing energy. The challenge on Earth is to confine
 > plasma—an ionized gas, with electrons and nuclei separated—at high
 > temperatures (greater than 150 million degrees Celsius) long enough
 > for fusion reactions to occur. Most effort over the past 60 years of
 > fusion research has focused on tokamaks—huge doughnut-shaped vessels
 > that confine plasma with powerful magnets—and laser fusion, which
 > uses high-energy laser pulses to squeeze tiny capsules of fuel. But
 > between these low-density and high-density extremes there is a range
 > of other approaches that have received little government funding.
 > Now, startup companies are moving into that vacuum.
 >
 > Tri Alpha’s device relies on a plasma phenomenon called a
 > field-reversed configuration (FRC), akin to a smoke ring of plasma.
 > Because plasma is made of charged particles (electrons and nuclei),
 > the swirling particles in the FRC create a magnetic field that acts
 > to hold the ring together, potentially long enough for fusion to get
 > going. Tri Alpha’s 23-meter-long device has at its heart a long tube
 > with numerous ring-shaped magnets and other devices along its length.
 > It creates a plasma smoke ring close to each end and fires them
 > toward the middle at 250 kilometers per second. At the center they
 > merge, converting their kinetic energy into heat to produce a
 > high-temperature FRC.
 >


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Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 06:46 -0500
  Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 08:54 -0700
  Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 10:58 -0500
  Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 17:55 -0400
    Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-06-03 15:34 -0700
    Re: Mystery company blazes a trail in fusion energy benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 23:25 -0400
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