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A novel approach to Nuclear Fusion

12/18/2022 10:32 AM

This looks promising...

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12/18/2022 11:47 AM

It interesting, but I’m losing a lot of faith in the ‘follow the science’ groups.

and for good reason.

take Sam Briton, for instance, on paper he looks very competent with education to back it up… and with solid work to back it up,.. until you see what kind of person he really is. A thief.

His (or should I say ‘them/they’) integrity is a Zero.

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12/18/2022 1:22 PM

Take Donald Trump for instance, 'on paper he looks very competent with education to back it up… and with solid work to back it up,.. until you see what kind of person he really is. A thief.

His (or should I say ‘them/they’) integrity is a Zero."

I'm sure that the ‘follow the science’ groups never knew you existed.

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12/18/2022 2:14 PM

Oh look, another ‘Anonymous source’ coming out from the shadows with juicy information….

Ya, it’s been proven how false and unreliable those are.

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12/19/2022 2:36 PM

Really? A thief? He donated his salary as President. And how did the country fare while he was the President? And by contrast, look at how the current administration has screwed up:

Highest Inflation in over forty years, soaring food and energy prices

High Interest Rates that show no sign of slowing down

The Completely Screwed Up Withdrawal from Afghanistan with 13 service members dead at Kabul's airport from his incompetence as well as destroying faith in our alliances with other nations.

A Completely Inept administration headed by an bunch of box checkers and a panty stealing freak at the Department of Energy (with a security clearance by the way )

Utterly Corrupt: Look at the tens of millions of dollars funneled into the Biden crime family from foreign interests. Hunter Biden's laptop is not Russian disinformation. It details the depth of corruption of this President.

Divisive rhetoric that only serves to divide our country, not unite it. Just look at his Philadelphia speech. Disgusting.

Biden lies just about everything he has done and media just shrugs and laughs off his exaggerations. If Trump had done anything like that, the lamestream media would have all their head exploding.

How about five million illegal aliens crossing our southern border bringing in dangerous illegal drugs and who knows how many terrorists just waltzing across the border? What a disaster. Refused to continue to build the wall and started off his presidency by announcing he would not deport anybody for the first hundred days. Was that not a blatant invitation for illegal immigration?

Never mind that Biden is a creep. He has no sense of propriety or personal space.

Biden is giving Jimmy Carter a reason to smile.

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07/13/2023 5:02 AM

Unfortunately Donald made the USA the laughing stock of the world. No-one could believe that Americans could be that stupid and naive to elect him as their president.

MATLSOTWA - Make America The Laughing Stock Of The World Again!

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09/22/2023 11:59 AM

Lol… good one.

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09/25/2023 4:06 AM

Yes, thank goodness you have a go-ahead, dynamic president now.

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12/19/2022 11:20 AM

Why, oh why did you bring the politics of Sam Briton into this discussion? Did you hope to quash the discussion for personal reasons? You should be ashamed of yourself.

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12/19/2022 11:57 AM

Stop being such a drama Queen.

weren’t you the one that went off the rails on another post when I talked about Italy’s laws about bankruptcy, send me vulgar PM’s that had nothing to do with the bankruptcy laws, but was instead a personal issue and attacks about COVID-19, as though I could read you mind. Yes, your were.

As far as Briton, he was put in a high level, high security position, that on paper looked to be a competent researcher.

And when he secured that position, he took advantage of it beyond with his own agenda to a point of being unstable… very unstable, so like all the ‘follow the science’ D.Q.’s like yourself.

science is something you need to question.

And if your offended, or just crying… look at it as brain storming.

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12/19/2022 12:03 PM

So you don't have anything to bring to this discussion but politics.

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12/19/2022 12:08 PM

Only you would see that, what I brought is question the science… but I can see it is you that has alternative agenda, not with the topic, but with me.

good luck

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12/19/2022 2:26 PM

An ad hominin attack by proxy does not question science.

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12/19/2022 4:09 PM

Again…

” but I can see it is you that has alternative agenda, not with the topic, but with me.”

and with that said, you exacerbate your agenda.

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12/19/2022 11:06 PM

Quoting yourself brings nothing new to a discussion, by definition.

I do have a problem with you. You frequently do not address the original topic. You also attack anyone who points out that you are not addressing the original topic. Often your tangential comments take on a political perspective despite CR4's rule of conduct #5.

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12/20/2022 2:01 AM

Your past PMs to me says otherwise, so stop trying to explain your hypocrisy.

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01/02/2023 4:34 AM

It appears that it is AP#1 and yourself that brought politics into the discussion.

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01/02/2023 10:50 PM

I still don't see anyone tying Helion Energy to anything done by Sam Briton. That's why I asked my first question.

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01/02/2023 11:02 PM

That’s because no one tied Briton to Helion energy. You just had an axe to grind…
my original post was to question the experts,…

You and the anonymous source were the ones that brought politics into it with an alternative motive. And then you just projected it… as though you needed a tissue?

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01/03/2023 1:59 PM

Which fusion experts will you question here at CR4? I questioned you about the motive for your reply.

I see that I'm not allowed to question you for making an off topic remark I perceive to be political.

Once again, I find bullies to be pitied.

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01/03/2023 2:10 PM

not allowed to question? Now your making up stuff up to support your argument.

my post is based on to question experts in general.

as far as your perception… yes, I agree, you make your share of assumptions….

as far as bullies are concerned, projection isn’t a defense for anyone.

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12/18/2022 1:47 PM

Yes it looks very promising...this approach seems more practical....

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01/22/2023 6:56 PM

...but then I noticed this...

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05/01/2023 12:29 PM

I stumbled onto that video, too. Excuse me, please. I forgot that you posted this here.

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12/19/2022 1:04 AM

I like the overall strategy, but fail to see how the electricity is produced. Is it just the bucking of the confinement field that gives the electrical potential?

What is done with the excess heat?

But I like the idea of going from nuc reaction straight to electrical production.

I always liked the idea of an antimatter reactor. The only products are monopole gamma emissions. If one containment sphere favored the negative monopole absorption and another favored the positive monopole absorption, we might produced very high DC potential between the confinement spheres. Even configure that potential to regulate the reactor feed rate. A regulated DC supply.

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07/13/2023 4:08 AM

It's been proven many times on Star Trek that confinement fields are unreliable & subject to collapse at random times.

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07/13/2023 11:47 PM

I'm not familiar with the star trek confinement fields. But I do know that field confinement powers and holds together every charge in this universe. That field confinement rotates and holds that charge for ~ 10e+60 years. Some like me would classify that as perpetual.

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07/14/2023 4:13 AM

Depends who you want to believe, Scotty or some scientists.

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12/19/2022 1:53 AM

I live near Everett WA (hometown of Helion, near Redmond WA where this was said to have been recorded) and have never heard of them. Are they looking for investment money? For a never seen before technology? Pushed by some guy with an accent (A common means to evoke interest in videos)? Who is this YouTube salesman? Is he a reporter? Is he employed by Helion? Who is David Kirtley? (OK, He is real http://www.helionenergy.com/)

Huge capacitors... Holy crap might millions of amps being discharged be dangerous? Charge / discharge cycles?

More power to them, but maybe don't send them money.

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12/19/2022 2:30 AM

..."Helion Energy received $7 million in funding from NASA, the United States Department of Energy and the Department of Defense,[30] followed by $1.5 million from the private sector in August 2014, through the seed accelerators Y Combinator and Mithril Capital Management.[31] Investors include Y Combinator. In September 2020, the company was valued at 1.25 billion dollars.[2] Mithril Capital Management, and Capricorn Investment Group.[32][33] As of late 2021, investment totaled 77.8M.[34] In November 2021, Helion received $0.5 billion in Series E funding, with an additional $1.7 billion of commitments tied to specific milestones.[35] The funding was mainly led by Sam Altman.[36] "....

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12/19/2022 2:42 AM

Thanks Solar! Still wonder why Helion doesn't break the news here...

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12/19/2022 8:57 AM

Everyone and his dog is trying to achieve a sustainable and commercial fusion reactor: we only hear about them when they get a degree of success.

My nephew happened to do some work for this place:

https://firstlightfusion.com/media/fusion

Like you, I was surprised I'd never heard of them.

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12/19/2022 10:18 AM

The first sentence says it all to me. I'll wait until the miniature reactors are available; they would be useful.

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12/19/2022 12:00 PM

This does look promising. This is so promising it might be too good to be true. Let's hope this does eventually become productive.

I like the idea of a relatively low energy, LINAC ion collider. Containing the colliding plasma balls (donuts?) in a magnetic field to increase fusion collisions intrigues me. It is also the very point of my cautionary skepticism. Magnetic confinement typically limits charged particles into a controlled orbit, it doesn't make them stop moving. Making a batch of charged subatomic particles stationary for even a brief interval of time doesn't seem right to me. This might be nothing more than a simplifying interpretation error by the reporter or myself.

I would've liked to have seen any telemetry devices around the reaction region to support the results presented. A full blown STAR detector around the reaction region would dwarf the entire system and would certainly contain multiple superfluous devices. Nonetheless measured data showing how much material did remain in the reaction region and how much just passed through would have been nice.

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12/19/2022 2:14 PM

We still don't know how fusion works. We do know that with the right temp, and the right density gives us the probability for it to occur. But until we understand the true dynamic, any process will be very in-efficient. Requiring high energy input and great heat loss. But the possibility of a clean high yield can not be resisted. And there is no limit on the funding and man power. After 40 yrs. of failure, we just increase the budget. We could have been 100% fission for our electric grid with the resources and time spent. Any and all waste can be disassociated with fission. There will still be plenty of particle and EM radiation with fusion. It's not as clean as proposed. But hype, fear and hysteria set our policies.

400 people were lost just building a soccer stadium. Just how far have we really come?

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12/19/2022 3:50 PM

...."Over a million animals, and nearly half a million people died in the Roman Colosseum..

The main purpose of the Colosseum in Rome was to entertain the people.

When Titus inaugurated the amphitheater in 80 CE, he held 100 days of activities.

In that time, over 9000 animals were killed, and according to some, 5000 of them were killed in a single day. Around 2000 people died as well."....

Better to be building clean energy machines than hanging around the Colosseum watching death and cruelty on a massive scale.... So who wants to go down to the Colosseum and watch a bunch of scumbags get ripped to pieces by lions and tigers and bears, and then a bunch of gladiators come out and kill the animals with just hand weapons...? I just have one question, do they serve beer? haha

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07/13/2023 11:50 PM

I am lost on the context of your reply comment. The 400 deaths I spoke of happened a few weeks before my post.

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12/19/2022 5:40 PM

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12/19/2022 6:25 PM

It’s interesting enough, what if you only have 1/2 the machine, and you’re accelerating the plasma at 300 kms… I wonder what the mass of that plasma field is during the process.

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12/20/2022 12:46 AM

That is an interesting thought. Would it rate as a kinetic weapon? Or an energy weapon? I sure wouldn't want to be anywhere near the business end of it.

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12/20/2022 2:19 AM

Well, I was going to say weapons or weaponize, but there are members here that are either hyper-sensitive, or who want to have certain people to stay strictly on topic what they fail to understand is that with technology, it has to go and address the fringes and possibilities. It’s collect brain storming, for the member I’m currently dealing with off topic doesn’t or refuses to understand and try’s to use rules of conduit to shut me down as a defense.

Now, as a layman, I can only speculate, when the plasma is compressed, ok… when the plasma, leaves the magnetic controlled environment, the compression is no longer contained, so… does it loses energy (as in heat) as it expands???,.. where does that energy go?

Along with this what about the speed of the plasma as it leaves the chamber at 300 kms, how much mass is the plasma, is anything stored from momentum. How is it, or rate of it is dispersed if that’s what it does…

It’s just that one is dealing with so much spreed and temperatures…. It’s mostly a thought experiment of what if….

Because this way above my understanding. And I’m just simplifying it to get my thoughts across which you picked up on right away.

yes I agree with you, I wouldn’t want to be around the working end of this,…. speculation.

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12/20/2022 2:40 AM

Editing time ran out… for me to expand and correct some wording.

when I asked where the does that energy go, I really meant, how does that effect the plasma’s ‘potential’? energy.

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12/20/2022 4:02 AM

It seems to me the release of the compressed plasma upon leaving the magnetic confined tube would expand rapidly experiencing an adiabatic reaction rapidly cooling, something like a compressed water cannon with the plasma dissipating into a spray of vapor...these are extremely short bursts....

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12/20/2022 5:02 AM

Yes, speculating it would be a flash, and high heat. Again… speculating, It would even flash the humity the air…

but, how would that affect the velocity. Should the velocity also transferred into the ‘flash’ ?

or will it keep traveling? So to speak.

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12/20/2022 2:42 PM

Well speculating that the most damage from any explosion is usually the shock wave, any directional enhancement would need to be considered...if you were engineering it as a weapon, you would probably want to focus the shock wave as much as you could...of course at close range it would probably vaporize anything in its path...

https://www.military.com/video/ammunition-and-explosives/explosives/shockwave-captured-on-high-speed/763995636001

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Re: A novel approach to Nuclear Fusion

05/01/2023 11:05 AM

Here is a well-educated rebuttal to this fusion approach. He explains some of my reservations about this approach. Particularly the claim that Field Reverse Conversion is a closely guarded, novel approach. This approach has been experimented with since the '60s. Helion could be guarding solutions to this approach they recently found but this is far from a novel approach. That is not the only problem he highlights in the video, have a look.

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Re: A novel approach to Nuclear Fusion

07/13/2023 11:00 AM

We need this sort of basic research and creativity, but this appears to be in the early stages of research/discovery, thus decades in the future before being practical. I'll await their printed report and then a peer review of the whole operation.

Meantime, I'll stay with Generation IV fast reactors, which may be pretty much ready except for politics.

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