Nuclear Fusion ... Interested? ... This is it, this is the spot to explore ...

[North_Sky]

You posted the Saffire Sun...

If you didn't know, it's an offshoot of The Thunderbolts Project

Their thinking is the Universe is much more electrically active than is commonly thought.

Here's an interesting video with which to start:

The Lightning Scarred Planet Mars

Ray, the Safire Sun video wasn't from me (#43).

I'm watching yours now, to expand my brain ...

 

[RayDunzl]

My mistake, but I'm sure you'll enjoy the links.

 

[mhardy6647]

You drive an EV car?

hmm, perhaps I misread the quote then; thought @Frank Dernie was referring to PVs.
About 5200 watts worth of PVs here in a net-metering setup, which meets our needs; banking electricity most of the year.


DSC_1532 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Nope, no EV -- we used to have a hybrid; Mrs. H loved it and it served admirably (and economically in every sense of the word) for 246k miles (396 km). After eleven amazingly trouble-free years, it succumbed to rust.

025a by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

For a variety of reasons, we're both leery of pure-play EVs (mostly range anxiety related... umm... anxieties) but my son & law and I will go halfsies on a Cybertruck when & if they actually reach fruition. For our needs, access to one of those will be ideal. Neither of us needs a truck "full time" but both of us need one now and again -- and we both have plenty of PV capacity at our homes to help with the charging.

(daughter & son-in-law's PV array)

As an aside, his father recently got a Tesla 3. So far, he loves it.

 

[North_Sky]

Very cool. And lovely countryside.

I was simply curious if you were also driving an EV, in addition to the solar panels on your roof. You didn't misread.

 

[North_Sky]

My mistake, but I'm sure you'll enjoy the links.

In your first link there are several videos.
In your second link that one is almost an hour and half long.

I will report tomorrow or the day after after watching them all in their entirety.
I got time, I'm mainly staying safe @ home, where I can expand my brain for free.

I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

 

[Wes]

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/30/us-launches-game-changer-perovskite-solar-cells-at-natural-gas/

 

[Alice of Old Vincennes]

the IAEA is less ambitious these days

“A prototype of a fusion reactor (DEMO) is expected to be built by 2040. Electricity generation and exploitation is also expected to take place in the second half of the century, depending on funding and technical advancement.”

https://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs

Now it's only 20 years away. I am afraid the physics of gravitational fusion will never be solved on earth. I hope I am wrong.

 

[maxxevv]

Now it's only 20 years away. I am afraid the physics of gravitational fusion will never be solved on earth. I hope I am wrong.

That is magnetic field containment. Nothing to do with gravity.

Also, the IAEA FAQ is wrong about fusion reactors creating weapons.

The neutron bombardment process (resulting from deuterium fusion) is the exact same process used to enrich weapons grade Plutonium.
It will only be correct if the fusion process is the one that only uses pure Hydrogen to form Helium.

 

[kevinh]

Getting more energy out of a fusion reaction than was put in has already been achieved, but not in a way that is viable for commercial energy production: https://arstechnica.com/science/201...entists-get-more-energy-out-than-fuel-put-in/

Your point? If a process isn't usable what good is it? Molten Salt Thorium reactors have been run for years back in the 60's but was dropped due to the Military desire for materials for use in weapons, Thorius Reactors don't provide those materials. So development was stopped, even though it is far safer and more plentiful.

 

[Frank Dernie]

You drive an EV?

PMFJI, I mainly drive a plug in hybrid with a 35 mile range. It means I don't have range anxiety on my rare long trips and around home I charge it when the sun is shining. I put petrol in it (it takes about 10 gallons) about 3 times per year.
No all electric I have looked into suits my lifestyle.

 

[North_Sky]

My mistake, but I'm sure you'll enjoy the links.

I watched some from your first link.
And I watched the other from your second link.

Are they related to nuclear fusion in your opinion?
That's what I like in you Ray, your off topic data sense of humor.

 

[RayDunzl]

Are they related to nuclear fusion in your opinion?

In that some of them will give "evidence" why the Sun is not fusion powered, yes.

The second link appeals to me, especially the proposed electrically created Martian geological formations, the others, I've only skimmed.

They cover a wide range of cosmological targets.

 

[Wes]

Fusion will take so long to happen that we will be swamped with PV long before that

 

[North_Sky]

In that some of them will give "evidence" why the Sun is not fusion powered, yes.

The second link appeals to me, especially the proposed electrically created Martian geological formations, the others, I've only skimmed.

They cover a wide range of cosmological targets.

I know all of that Ray, but we're distancing ourselves from the prime "illuminati set of controls" ... figure of speech for 'nuclear fusion', our primary objective. ...Engineering in concrete form and scientific analysis and experiments...both from Tokamak and Stellarator plasma containment techniques.

* Mars, Sun, Neptune, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn, ... stars they all orbit in space, not on Earth. The Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But that's for another thread about space, infinity, planets, stars, intergallactic high skies ... Planetology, Astonomy and Cosmology.

⚛ NUCLEAR FUSION (Energy on Earth) ... man-made.

 

[777]

https://business-review.eu/tech/mag...t-reached-maximum-power-of-10-petawats-197989

https://www.edu.ro/la-institutul-de...ut-experimentele-pentru-studiul-interacțiunii

The best of the best, state of art...

 

[North_Sky]

https://business-review.eu/tech/mag...t-reached-maximum-power-of-10-petawats-197989

https://www.edu.ro/la-institutul-de...ut-experimentele-pentru-studiul-interacțiunii

The best of the best, state of art...

Now that's interesting to learn about, and it's dead on target with the topic; Nuclear Fusion energy.

Laser Fusion ...
• https://www.azocleantech.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=419

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) ...
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion

Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) ...
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Light_Infrastructure

Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE)
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

⚛ FUSION POWER: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power

 

[North_Sky]

The Bible / Inertial Fusion Energy Technologies (Chapter 3)

⚛ https://www.nap.edu/read/18289/chapter/5

When you start reading it you would think that you are reading about Energy Loudspeakers technology by the NRC (National Research Council) in Canada.

But it isn't ...

The environment, health, and safety issues associated with plant operations and maintenance of an IFE power plant are expected to be substantially similar to those of current fission nuclear power plants. While fusion reactors will not have to deal with nuclear fuels and their resulting fission products, high levels of radiation and large amounts of radioactive materials will have to be safely handled. These will come from activation of the structural materials of the reactor and activated corrosion products in the coolant streams, as well as the presence of tritium. Fusion reactors will have to deal with significantly larger quantities of tritium than do fission reactors, as is discussed in the section “Tritium Production, Recovery, and Management,” above.

 

[North_Sky]

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PROSPECTS FOR
INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (2013)

▪https://www.nap.edu/read/18289/chapter/1

The book ...

• https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18289/an-assessment-of-the-prospects-for-inertial-fusion-energy

 

[Tachyon88]

In that some of them will give "evidence" why the Sun is not fusion powered, yes.

The second link appeals to me, especially the proposed electrically created Martian geological formations, the others, I've only skimmed.

They cover a wide range of cosmological targets.

Yes, its a complete paradigm shift of how you look at the solar system and the universe and it's testable, which is what the safire project is doing. So far they have had great success in explaining features of the sun that is not explainable with current popular theory. It also could explain why fusion energy is always a decade or so away, because they're working on an incorrect premise. Meanwhile that team is trying to develop a commercial product from the electric sun model, to potentially clean up nuclear waste and create sustainable energy with zero byproducts.

Either way, I hope they can get fusion energy to work despite nature probably working differently.

 

[North_Sky]

Because power matters ...

Bonus (quick off topic): Because audio matters ...

Because fusion; clean music, clean energy, clean nuclear, clean light, clean sound quality matter.