[ RadSafe ] Warm Fusion

[JPreisig at aol.com]

Hmmmmmm,

     This is from:      jpreisig at aol.com    .


     Hello Radsafers,

          Hope all is well in your home place.  For interesting particle 
discovery
     news, see the SLAC (Stanford) Web-site today.  And now on to other 
     things.

          Physicists routinely ionize atoms to accelerate them to higher 
energies
     in atomic, nuclear and particle physics.  This is also done in (hot) 
fusion
     physics.  Atoms are heated or their electrons are removed in order to
     accelerate the ions electromagnetically.  This ionization process also 
     causes deuterium and/or tritium ions to repell each other greatly.
     The acceleration energies to make hot fusion go are typically 10 to 50
     keV or more.  Is this actually the correct thing to do to create fusion
     energy???

          Let's consider another path to success.  Deuterium and/or tritium
     are typically diatomic molecules, electonically neutral.  Let's now DO 
NOT
     accelerate the deutrium and/or tritium molecules electrically, but now 
rather
     use mechanical mechanisms for accelerating deuterium and/or tritium
     molecules toward one another.  Push them together using a piston, a gas
     driven piston, a spring loaded pusher plate, a rail gun or any other
     mechanical device you can think of.  Just use a mechanism which doesn't
     cause the molecules to become ions.  With such a scenario, the molecules
     of deutrium and/or tritium would not repell each other, because they are 
not
     ions.

          And because the deuterium and/or tritium molecules are not ions, 
they 
     can be forced together less energetically than in the the traditional hot
     plasma experiment.  The only question now is what energy do the
     deuterium and/or tritium molecules have to have to achieve fusion.  
Surely,
     the energy necessary for this process must be considerably less than
     the usual 10 to 50 keV required for conventional fusion.

          One should consider that the electromagnetic repulsion is quite 
small
     until the deuterium and/or tritium molecules come into proxity with one
     another.  One could have molecules directed at a fixed target of
     deuterium and/or tritium, or one could have two beam of molecules
     which are directed at one another.  Current micropositioning systems
     used elsewhere in physics could be of help here.

         Once the molecules are close to one another, there are some local 
     forces to consider.  There is the force that causes the deuterium and/or 
     tritium atoms to become molecules.  And at nuclear spatial scales, the
     strong nuclear forces (responsible for fusion???) also occur.  Perhaps
     someone who is theoretically adept might consider modelling such 
     forces and thus compute what energies are necessary for the 
     deuterium and/or tritium molecules to collide (and create fusion) in the 
     absence of electromagnetic (repulsive) forces.

          Will this all work???  I don't know.  Someone with a vacuum chamber 
     and neutron detectors could set such an experiment up.  And eventually,
     a large enough vacuum chamber could be set up which would contain
     the experimental assembly and water (or fluid???) blanket layers
     necessary for capturing the neutron energy from the warm fusion
     reactions.  I believe this could all be done in several years.  I think 
the 
     folks at PPPL (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab) or elsewhere could do
     such an experiment readily.

           Y'all take care.     Regards,    Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig, Ph.D.


     P.S.  Did Pons and Fleischman (i.e. cold fusion experimenters) use 
              deuterium and/or tritium molecules in their experiments, or did 
they
              use deutrium and/or tritium ions???  They used palladium as one
              of their electrode materials, right???  Perhaps there is 
something 
              about palladium's structure that would force deuterium and/or 
tritium
              molecules together???  Are these guys heroes or goats???
              Maybe they will be very rich soon???