Dear Sir: With energy being of such import to all aspects of the economy, government policy and world climate why do these technologies languish for lack of government funding?
There are three companies pursuing hydrogen-boron plasma toroid fusion, a form of aneutronic fusion, Paul Koloc, Prometheus II, Eric Lerner, Focus Fusion and Clint Seward of Electron Power Systems http://www.electronpowersystems.com/ . A resent DOD review of EPS technology reads as follows:
"MIT considers these plasmas a revolutionary breakthrough, with Delphi's chief scientist and senior manager for advanced technology both agreeing that EST/SPT physics are repeatable and theoretically explainable. MIT and EPS have jointly authored numerous professional papers describing their work. (Delphi is a $33B company, the spun off Delco Division of General Motors)."
Vincent Page (a technology officer at GE!!) gave a presentation at the 05 6th symposium on current trends in international fusion research, which high lights the need to fully fund three different approaches to P-B11 fusion (Below Is an excerpt). He quotes costs and time to development of P-B11 Fusion as tens of million $, and years verses the many decades and ten Billion plus $ projected for ITER and other "Big" science efforts:
"for larger plant sizes Time to small-scale Cost to achieve net if the small-scale Concept Description net energy production energy concept works: Koloc Spherical Plasma: 10 years(time frame), $25 million (cost), 80%(chance of success) Field Reversed Configuration: 8 years $75 million 60% Plasma Focus: 6 years $18 million 80%
Desirable Fusion Reactor Qualities • Research & development is also needed in the area of computing power. • Many fusion researchers of necessity still use MHD theory to validate their designs. • MHD theory assumes perfect diamagnetism and perfect conductance. • These qualities may not always exist in the real world, particularly during continuous operation. • More computing power is needed to allow use of a more realistic validation theory such as the Vlasov equations. • ORNL is in the process of adding some impressive computing power. • Researchers now need to develop more realistic validation methods up to the limits of the available computing power. • Governments need to fund these efforts."
I feel in light of the recent findings of neutrons, x-rays, and gamma rays in lightening, that these threads need to be brought together in an article.
I have been responding to all of the articles that filter in via my Google alerts on "fusion power". The most recent was the "Happy News" article by Kris Metaverso. http://www.happynews.com/news/112220...ependently.htm
This post is a plea to you, as true conservatives, to at least look at aneutronic fusion, the P-B11 efforts, Eric Learner's high temperatures and x-ray source project, Clint Seward's lightening theories, and DOD review, and Paul Kolac's review by GE.
The minimal cost and time frame for even the possibility of this leap forward seems criminal not to pursue.
I am a landscape designer and technology gadfly wondering why this technology has never been put in the public eye. My hope is that someone in your office would step up to give a shout out about these technologies. Please contact me for copies of my correspondence with the principles, interesting replies and criticisms from physics discussion forums and academic physicists who have replied to my queries.
Thanks for any help
Erich J. Knight Shenandoah Gardens 1047 Dave Berry Rd. McGaheysville, VA 22840 (540) 289-9750 shengar@aol.com
Dear Sir:
ReplyDeleteWith energy being of such import to all aspects of the economy, government policy and world climate why do these technologies languish for lack of government funding?
There are three companies pursuing hydrogen-boron plasma toroid fusion, a form of aneutronic fusion, Paul Koloc, Prometheus II, Eric Lerner, Focus Fusion and Clint Seward of Electron Power Systems http://www.electronpowersystems.com/ . A resent DOD review of EPS technology reads as follows:
"MIT considers these plasmas a revolutionary breakthrough, with Delphi's
chief scientist and senior manager for advanced technology both agreeing
that EST/SPT physics are repeatable and theoretically explainable. MIT and
EPS have jointly authored numerous professional papers describing their
work. (Delphi is a $33B company, the spun off Delco Division of General
Motors)."
Vincent Page (a technology officer at GE!!) gave a presentation at the 05 6th symposium on current trends in international fusion research, which high lights the need to fully fund three different approaches to P-B11 fusion (Below Is an excerpt).
He quotes costs and time to development of P-B11 Fusion as tens of million $, and years verses the many decades and ten Billion plus $ projected for ITER and other "Big" science efforts:
"for larger plant sizes
Time to small-scale Cost to achieve net if the small-scale
Concept Description net energy production energy concept works:
Koloc Spherical Plasma: 10 years(time frame), $25 million (cost), 80%(chance of success)
Field Reversed Configuration: 8 years $75 million 60%
Plasma Focus: 6 years $18 million 80%
Desirable Fusion Reactor Qualities
• Research & development is also needed in
the area of computing power.
• Many fusion researchers of necessity still
use MHD theory to validate their designs.
• MHD theory assumes perfect diamagnetism
and perfect conductance.
• These qualities may not always exist in the
real world, particularly during continuous operation.
• More computing power is needed to allow use of a more realistic validation theory
such as the Vlasov equations.
• ORNL is in the process of adding some impressive computing power.
• Researchers now need to develop more realistic validation methods up to the
limits of the available computing power.
• Governments need to fund these efforts."
I feel in light of the recent findings of neutrons, x-rays, and gamma rays in lightening, that these threads need to be brought together in an article.
I have been responding to all of the articles that filter in via my Google alerts on "fusion power". The most recent was the "Happy News" article by Kris Metaverso.
http://www.happynews.com/news/112220...ependently.htm
This post is a plea to you, as true conservatives, to at least look at aneutronic fusion, the P-B11 efforts, Eric Learner's high temperatures and x-ray source project, Clint Seward's lightening theories, and DOD review, and Paul Kolac's review by GE.
The minimal cost and time frame for even the possibility of this leap forward seems criminal not to pursue.
I am a landscape designer and technology gadfly wondering why this technology has never been put in the public eye.
My hope is that someone in your office would step up to give a shout out about these technologies. Please contact me for copies of my correspondence with the principles, interesting replies and criticisms from physics discussion forums and academic physicists who have replied to my queries.
Thanks for any help
Erich J. Knight
Shenandoah Gardens
1047 Dave Berry Rd.
McGaheysville, VA 22840
(540) 289-9750 shengar@aol.com