http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCjhRY_K ... r_embedded
from this page:
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/05/I ... ly_viable/
and his www site:
http://noblefuse.com/samazar.htm
It looks like he is having fun.
Solomon Azar Has a new video
Solomon Azar Has a new video
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Neat. Am I to understand that the fusion products would be used to heat the water of existing power plants (ie this is not a direct conversion method)?
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I haven't studied his work well enough to be able to say.EricF wrote:Neat. Am I to understand that the fusion products would be used to heat the water of existing power plants (ie this is not a direct conversion method)?
Most of us here consider him a crank. But he is working on his dream and maybe he will get results.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Who the heck knows? Unfortunately, neither does Solomon Azar. I corresponded with him with a few emails (he said he'd patented it, but I couldn't find it and it turns out there had been, let us say, some issues to him filing it). He seemed rather sketchy on the details.EricF wrote:Am I to understand that the fusion products would be used to heat the water of existing power plants (ie this is not a direct conversion method)?
Fusion power is for dreamers, scammers, scientists, futurologists, engineers &c. - and contributors and their contributions are not equal. The majority are quack-ers and detrimentally degrade the efforts of amateur fusioneers in the eyes of 'the establishment' to much lower, even, than it might already be. Some are sincere, some are fradulent. Solomon is sincere, but has no real understanding of physics to even begin to understand why he might be a million miles away from doing anything remotely useful.
lol, thats a mighty broad brush!chrismb wrote:Who the heck knows? Unfortunately, neither does Solomon Azar. I corresponded with him with a few emails (he said he'd patented it, but I couldn't find it and it turns out there had been, let us say, some issues to him filing it). He seemed rather sketchy on the details.
Fusion power is for dreamers, scammers, scientists, futurologists, engineers &c. - and contributors and their contributions are not equal. The majority are quack-ers and detrimentally degrade the efforts of amateur fusioneers in the eyes of 'the establishment' to much lower, even, than it might already be. Some are sincere, some are fradulent. Solomon is sincere, but has no real understanding of physics to even begin to understand why he might be way off anything remotely useful.
Say for the sake of speculation, IF this effect really works to fuse particles, I wonder if the arc could be tuned to fuse other elements.
This next question applies to polywell too. Is there an aneutronic fusion reaction of any of the abundant pure elements ie Oxygen-Oxygen, Boron-Boron Carbon-Carbon ect? I've been wondering why there haven't been charts written mapping out fusion reactions and their products of various elements with other elements (both theoretically and experimentally). I would think in a world with as much passion over fusion power as we live in, that would have been done by now.
Even if any higher fusions could be done, most of these higher reactions are mediated by the electromagnetic force (viz. will pump out x-rays but few charged particles/neutrons). The 'energy content' also drops off as you close up to iron (lower energy-per-nucleon content), yet the energy in goes up by orders of mag. to get the fusion. No DD fusion? Then no chance with anything else...
But the biggest issue with any scheme which uses, let's say, large amounts of 'ordinary cold matter' is that there are too many electrons hanging around. They just suck up the energy right out of any processes with ions. So this exp is out, for the same reasons the solid-target stuff is out.
You gotta either
- keep the electrons mobile (hot),
- confine them cold and to tight regions of [both physical and velocity] space (like a theoretical Polywell) or
- exclude them from coming to the party (collider experiments).
The first suffers from bremsstrahlung (excess EM radiation); the second no-one's published (or proven to have, at least) the right configuration yet; the third is too inefficient and even if that could be overcome then the power density would be so low as to be useless.
But the biggest issue with any scheme which uses, let's say, large amounts of 'ordinary cold matter' is that there are too many electrons hanging around. They just suck up the energy right out of any processes with ions. So this exp is out, for the same reasons the solid-target stuff is out.
You gotta either
- keep the electrons mobile (hot),
- confine them cold and to tight regions of [both physical and velocity] space (like a theoretical Polywell) or
- exclude them from coming to the party (collider experiments).
The first suffers from bremsstrahlung (excess EM radiation); the second no-one's published (or proven to have, at least) the right configuration yet; the third is too inefficient and even if that could be overcome then the power density would be so low as to be useless.
I should add that this has been done, but you need to know where to look if you really want to know it.EricF wrote:I would think in a world with as much passion over fusion power as we live in, that would have been done by now.
Try www.nndc.bnl.gov/exfor
that explains a lot I have been wondering about. thanks.Even if any higher fusions could be done, most of these higher reactions are mediated by the electromagnetic force (viz. will pump out x-rays but few charged particles/neutrons). The 'energy content' also drops off as you close up to iron (lower energy-per-nucleon content), yet the energy in goes up by orders of mag. to get the fusion. No DD fusion? Then no chance with anything else...
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BTw, there are a few charts showing higher fusions, but most focus on getting particular results, i.e. aneutronic fusion, and fewer still--as I understand--have been experimentally verified. Fusing big atoms takes a LOT of energy, and even stuff like proton-boron took some work to verify. I know someone gave me a chart of fusion reactions that went up well past nitrogen, but I don't have a link handy. Might be on wikipedia.
I'd imagine that if the polywell works, you could do higher reactions--when I asked someone even suggested a nitrogen-proton reaction, since it has less chance of the unwanted side reactions. Big thing is, as Chris said, your yield drops off, and there's very few materials that can't be gotten some other way.
I'd imagine that if the polywell works, you could do higher reactions--when I asked someone even suggested a nitrogen-proton reaction, since it has less chance of the unwanted side reactions. Big thing is, as Chris said, your yield drops off, and there's very few materials that can't be gotten some other way.
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