Natural Science Forum / Physics / Fusion / January 2004

Please excuse me if this question has been answered about a million
times before. While debating the sun's fusion power with a few
colleagues, we thought it'd be interesting to calculate the amount of
Joules per cubic meter the Sun produces at its core. The unexpected

I know this is a bit off the wall, but in June this year, Brookhaven and
argonne Labs produced a 'plasma valve':
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/split/640-2.html
Would it be possible to produce something similar with electrons that would

I am trying to look at different slants to this question and I would like
some input from anyone out there who would like to.
One idea is that if an AC bias is applied to a cell (such as one with two
copper electrodes and de-ionised water) then Under AC an ion will move back

I heard only 8 billion dollars are needed. If 10 % of the population
of our planet give 13 dollars each then we've got what we need so we
can start building instead of continuing this eternal bureaucracy.
/Lars

Can you get electricity *directly* from self-sustaining fusion plasma
by using magnetohydrodynamics?     i.e. instead of having a torus
shaped reactor you have spherical plasma reactor, as a sphere is the
most stable structure there is.

One of the main problems with fusion research these days is that we do
not exhaust all possible ideas for reactors. We have been spending
tens of decades and billions of dollars funding magnetic confinement
fusion, which in my opinion, will not ever be able to achieve a

The Sun's surface is very hot
Controlled fusion is very not

Esteban

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How do scientists achieve the enourmous temperatures required for fusion?

I read on a news group that Fusion is not practical using colliding ion
beams as the ions dispersed too quickly.
Imagine 6 accelerators on the face of a large cube each pointing at one
central point. They simultaneously fire a beam of ions at the point. Each

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unlock it
knowledge the web site will turn from an IQ of 128 to 700
so will the A.I machine will tripple it's knowledge and it memory

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I've often heard it said that CF because it lacks credibility should
not be funded ..well let me strike a comparison with recent news in
the Nanotech arena that just happened wednesday regarding the new
NanoInitiative signed by Bush:

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We desperately need to lower our oil consumption. Such gluttonous use as we
have today funds the worst kind of fundamentalism and terrorism. See article
below:
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