Focus Fusion: The Fastest Route to Cheap, Clean Energy
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Google Tech Talks
October, 3 2007
ABSTRACT
To
bring the whole of humanity up to the living standards of the developed
world requires a new source of energy that is clean, inexhaustible and
much cheaper than any existing source -- fossil, nuclear, solar or wind.
Fusion with hydrogen-boron fuel, which allows direct conversion of
fusion energy to electricity, can be that source. It could cut energy
costs more than ten-fold. It produces no radioactive waste and would be
safe enough to situate in residential neighborhoods.
Of the three
approaches to achieving hydrogen-boron fusion, focus fusion, using the
dense plasma focus device, has experimentally achieved conditions that
are closest to those needed for net power generation. It is the only
approach that can utilize the high magnetic field effect, which reduces
the cooling of plasma by x-rays, helping to achieve the
multi-billion-degree temperatures needed for fusion. A currently-planned
three-year, $2 million experiment, if funded, can demonstrate the
scientific feasibility of focus fusion.
This presentation will
review the history and status of focus fusion and briefly compare it to
the two competing approaches, Field Reversed Configuration (recently
funded by Paul Allen) and Inertial Electrostatic Confinement, championed
by Dr. Robert Bussard, a recent Google Tech Talk speaker.
Speaker: Eric Lerner
Eric
J. Lerner is President of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in West Orange,
NJ and Executive Director of the Focus Fusion Society. He has been an
independent researcher in plasma physics since 1979, and has become
internationally known for his studies linking cosmic plasma phenomena
and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. He has
developed original theories of quasars, large scale structure, the
microwave background and the origin of light elements. He is the author
of The Big Bang Never Happened, published in 1991 by Random House. In
2006 he was a Visiting Scientist at the European Southern Observatory in
Chile.
Google engEDU
Speaker: Eric Lerner
October, 3 2007
ABSTRACT
To
bring the whole of humanity up to the living standards of the developed
world requires a new source of energy that is clean, inexhaustible and
much cheaper than any existing source -- fossil, nuclear, solar or wind.
Fusion with hydrogen-boron fuel, which allows direct conversion of
fusion energy to electricity, can be that source. It could cut energy
costs more than ten-fold. It produces no radioactive waste and would be
safe enough to situate in residential neighborhoods.
Of the three
approaches to achieving hydrogen-boron fusion, focus fusion, using the
dense plasma focus device, has experimentally achieved conditions that
are closest to those needed for net power generation. It is the only
approach that can utilize the high magnetic field effect, which reduces
the cooling of plasma by x-rays, helping to achieve the
multi-billion-degree temperatures needed for fusion. A currently-planned
three-year, $2 million experiment, if funded, can demonstrate the
scientific feasibility of focus fusion.
This presentation will
review the history and status of focus fusion and briefly compare it to
the two competing approaches, Field Reversed Configuration (recently
funded by Paul Allen) and Inertial Electrostatic Confinement, championed
by Dr. Robert Bussard, a recent Google Tech Talk speaker.
Speaker: Eric Lerner
Eric
J. Lerner is President of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in West Orange,
NJ and Executive Director of the Focus Fusion Society. He has been an
independent researcher in plasma physics since 1979, and has become
internationally known for his studies linking cosmic plasma phenomena
and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. He has
developed original theories of quasars, large scale structure, the
microwave background and the origin of light elements. He is the author
of The Big Bang Never Happened, published in 1991 by Random House. In
2006 he was a Visiting Scientist at the European Southern Observatory in
Chile.
Google engEDU
Speaker: Eric Lerner
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