thermonuclearfusionreactor.co.uk - Hot Nuclear Fusion for the Home...?

[tim123]

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

[conradelektro]

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/

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

[tim123]

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...

[conradelektro]

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

[tim123]

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.