This chap has invented a shoebox-sized nuclear-reactor. Wow.
http://www.thermonuclearfusionreactor.co.uk/
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Christopher_Strevens_Nuclear_Reactor
"...Tap water will do, so a cup full of water will power your house for a year at about 20 KW. That is the theory."
It's not without it's potential dangers though:
"As the proportion of deuterium increases and the helium level builds up the reaction rate suddenly increases and a nuclear explosion takes place. ... That is why the helium has to be filtered out. It is super diffusive and so it is easy to separate."
Sounds like a build for the more experienced among us. Brad, Russ? :)
PS: A vid of the inventor explaining his invention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQw0zpAjF1g
The story is more complicated. Dr. Chris seems to have serious problems (he thinks that some public mental health care representatives steal from him):
http://www.chrisspages.co.uk/ (http://www.chrisspages.co.uk/)
One could also construct a conspiracy theory if inclined to believe in conspiracies.
This might explain the situation ("The doctorate Was stolen and so forth at the detention centre after false accusation and show trial"):
http://www.chrisspages.co.uk/MyQualifications/degrees.htm
Greetings, Conrad
Hi Conrad,
he's certainly an interesting character. I'm interested in the technology though... I.e. does it work? It sounds feasible, with my limited knowledge...
Quote from: tim123 on August 27, 2013, 06:10:14 AM
Hi Conrad,
he's certainly an interesting character. I'm interested in the technology though... I.e. does it work? It sounds feasible, with my limited knowledge...
@tim123:
Whatever Dr. Chris has published is too erratic to draw any conclusions from it. He might be too far gone.
According to my opinion the research of Dr. Chris goes in the direction of "cold fusion" or LENR. So far no conclusive evidence has been published in this area of research. But one can hope that there are more "nuclear reactions" than we know till now. http://lenr-canr.org/
Whoopyjump has shown a series of experiments on YouTube along this line http://www.youtube.com/user/woopyjump/videos
This might be possible at home. Still a bit dangerous (in case the glass jar bursts or the H2 explodes when mixed with air).
Greetings, Conrad
I've done some reading on nuclear fusion and LENR, and this is what I've found:
Hot (thermonuclear) fusion - as seen on the sun - is a super-simple process:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
- atomic nuclei are forced together by heat and pressure, against their electrostatic repulsion, until they join.
- lots of energy is given off...
- 'spare' neutrons are also given off.
Cold fusion / LENR:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LENR
- atomic nuclei are forced together by the special properties of a catalyst, until they join
- energy and neutrons given off as above
So it looks like Chris is right when he says it's thermo-nuclear. There's no catalyst present, and he's using ohmic heating of the plasma to achieve the result. Repulsion pressures between filaments of the plasma cause them to pressurise the hot ionised gas in the filaments too.
I also think Chris could have found something important, yet perhaps not actually noticed... There's a factor in his setup which I think is a vast improvement on all others: AC input.
In 'standard' fusion experiments, they drive the ohmic heating with long pulses of DC, presumably into a superconducting coil - hence the long build-up times. There's only an output while the flux is changing, and the current is flowing in the plasma.
In Chris's setup he's using AC, running in a tuned-circuit. The flux is changing much, much faster than in a standard fusion setup. The plasma is experiencing rapid (50Hz) cycling, and I think this is why it could very well work - just like he says.
Fusion researchers think that the only way to get fusion is to force the nuclei together with brute force. (Typical of today's unsubtle 'science'). They think it's all about heat and pressure. I think the key is eddy currents - which as we all know are vortexes of current and magnetic field...
I think that the nuclei could be 'spun' together by the vortexes of the eddy-currents. I think the negative charge of the spiralling current would attract the positively charged nuclei, and as it spins tighter, they join.
@tim123:
Maybe you can try Whoopyjump's set up with AC. The glass jar contains mainly water and some easily available chemical product which I forgot. The electrodes are welding electrodes from a hardware store.
The gas container of Dr. Chris and his gas pump are much more complicated.
Jean Louis Naudin did some cold fusion experiments too: http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/index.htm (http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/index.htm)
May be you can apply your eddy current theory there. A coil wound around the glass container.
Greetings, Conrad
Hi Conrad,
I think I'd like a prototype thermonuclear reactor in my house about as much as leprosy. I have 2 (non-radioactive) designs of my own I'd rather build.
If Chris has acheived what he says he has - then he's succeded where billion dollar funded best-and-brightest have failed - and that in itself would be very newsworthy, and highly amusing.
If the eddy-current hypothesis is correct, then that would perhaps help explain his results. Vortexes do have unusual properties...
@tim123..yes brute force is needed to fuse deutrium,however,picture me with a lever applying it onto an atom,thats my take on cold fusion anyway,force/area=pressure.in the tokamac there is just force.
one cant practicaly apply force/area for deutrium gas,ie..the gas atoms have to be stationary,like when theyre stuck packed in a catalyst lattice.holy shit,im onto something..
thermonuclearfusionreactor.co.uk
I can not open his web site
DID ANYONE SAVED whole web site about fusion
PLEASE upload to some sharing web page and LINK HERE
MANY THANKS !!!
I contacted Chris when this topic started. I offered to help do his website for him, for free, and was hoping to be able to discuss the tech etc...
I sent him a few emails, but couldn't get more than a very short reply from him. I asked him to contact me when he had time, but he didn't. So I gave up.
The technique he was using seemed to make a lot of sense. I couldn't fault it, but I'm no expert. It was quite a simple setup...
At the time, the device was, according to Chris, 'in Utrecht for testing'... I've noticed the site is now down...
I still think the hypothesis that eddy-currents might cause fusion has legs:
- Fusion is bringing two *like* charged particles together - i.e. protons (+)
- *Moving* charges of the *same* polarity *attract* each other due to magnetic forces.
- So, the electrostatic repulsion can be overcome by the magnetic attraction if the velocity is high enough.
- I was taught that eddy-currents form inward-spiralling currents - i.e. they form an ever-tighter spiral / vortex as the current moves. Not a line, not a circle, a vortex...
- "In the absence of external forces, a vortex usually evolves fairly quickly toward the irrotational flow pattern, where the flow velocity v is inversely proportional to the distance r. For that reason, irrotational vortices are also called free vortices." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex)
- i.e. velocity increases toward the center of the vortex.
So a vortex of like-charged particles, with enough energy, could cause those particles to fuse...
Chris has re-surfaced:
http://transfusor.chrisspages.co.uk/
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Free_Energy_Blog:2014:02:13#Christopher_Strevens.27_Transfusor_a_nuclear_variant_of_Kapanadze.3F
PS: So the story is that Chris has been detained in a 'secure facility' for a while - since he irradiated himself & his neighbors - with his home built thermonuclear power plant... I mean - you couldn't make this stuff up... Lol. :)
Quote from: tim123 on August 27, 2013, 04:03:27 AM
This chap has invented a shoebox-sized nuclear-reactor. Wow.
http://www.thermonuclearfusionreactor.co.uk/
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Christopher_Strevens_Nuclear_Reactor
"...Tap water will do, so a cup full of water will power your house for a year at about 20 KW. That is the theory."
It's not without it's potential dangers though:
"As the proportion of deuterium increases and the helium level builds up the reaction rate suddenly increases and a nuclear explosion takes place. ... That is why the helium has to be filtered out. It is super diffusive and so it is easy to separate."
Sounds like a build for the more experienced among us. Brad, Russ? :)
PS: A vid of the inventor explaining his invention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQw0zpAjF1g
Well, I'm not Brad,Russ, but, I believe that I will keep a saturated wet bath towel or beach blanket at hand to throw on the device and damp the reaction the very minute that I happen to notice that it is beginning to go hyperbolic.
Hope I'm not answering the phone or at the door with the postman at that minute.
CANGAS 13.....oops, 14. In all the excitement I lost count myself.