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    Re: Fusion & Beyond -- World's Most Powerful Laser (Score: 1)
    by ElectroDynaCat on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 @ 07:33:09 UTC
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    Farnsworth's device was not self sustaining, it produced copious amounts of neutrons, and is the basis for most neutron generators in existence today. The Fuzor did not self sustain energy production, it needed a constant input of energy to continue running. When the amount of energy produced greatly exceeds the amount of energy needed to promote fusion, then that will be a significant breakthrough. The biggest drawback with laser fusion is the inefficency of the laser as a converter of power into light. It certainly looks spectacular when they're running, but the electric meter is running so fast it could slice meat.
    More than likely the laser fusion project is a cover for some other kind of research into an exotic weapons system, probably space based ICBM defence, it just so happens that the laser can also be used to research (not achieve) fusion power generation.
    The other area of research with magnetic containment fusion also has problems with the power consumed by confinement magnets themselves. Superconductors are now being used to lessen the amount of energy needed to confine the hot gas so it will undergo fusion.
    There is a problem with the use of superconducting materials in those magnets, and that is the characteristic "quenching" of a superconductor by its own magnetic field. This occurs in the traditional "old" superconductors like niobium/tin and is even more pronounced in the new high temperature copper oxide superconductors. This quenching can destroy a superconductor in a matter of micro seconds when the supercurrent in the conductor slams into a region of normal resistance and the superconductor quite literally explodes.
    Had this problem not existed, it would have been possible long ago to wrap as many turns of superconductor around the toroids that confine the plasma and achieve the flux intensity neccessary to squeeze that plasma down into fusion temperatures and densities.
    So as you can see from whats been explained above, the real problem with fusion isn't plasma physics, that was solved long ago. The area of study most important to fusion research is solid state physics, and the problem of magnetic quenching in a superconductor. Sounds simple? Ask the people working on the problem, and you will see that they would much rather be working on a "space folding hyperdrive" instead. Its probably easier!


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