The Elegant Answer to Clean Energy
By the blog author
Laser induced intermittent nuclear fusion is a process that drops a deuterium pellet into a sphere. As the pellet approaches the center of the sphere, dozens of lasers fire from all three dimensions.
The pellet implodes with such force that neutrons are ejected, along with tremendous energy and photons. The deuterium in the pellet is converted from "heavy hydrogen" to inert helium.
No fossil fuels are used.
No plutonium or radioactive heavy metals are involved.
Eventually, the concrete containment sphere becomes lightly radioactive, but this is nothing compared to existing nuclear facilities, the heavy metal toxicity of a coal plant, or a petroleum refinery.
Neither CO2, CO, ash, CFCs nor the ingredients of acid rain are produced. There are no rods to melt down. Environmentally pure MASSIVE amounts of electricity can be produced, as if we were turning on the sun for a little burst of energy with each pellet. The "plant" can be shut down by simply shutting off the lasers and not feeding the sphere any more pellets.
The energy supply is estimated at 30 million years of deuterium.
Neutron ejection was first achieved in 1971. Since the founding of the Energy Department in 1977, research has twitched and shivered and continued in a halting way. Major developments in lasers and accurate clocking mechanisms, as well as astonishing progress in semiconductor technology, most of it occurring in the private sector, have moved this technology from the distant future to something likely within 20 more years.
Link:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/energy_for_the_future/life/
By the blog author
Laser induced intermittent nuclear fusion is a process that drops a deuterium pellet into a sphere. As the pellet approaches the center of the sphere, dozens of lasers fire from all three dimensions.
The pellet implodes with such force that neutrons are ejected, along with tremendous energy and photons. The deuterium in the pellet is converted from "heavy hydrogen" to inert helium.
No fossil fuels are used.
No plutonium or radioactive heavy metals are involved.
Eventually, the concrete containment sphere becomes lightly radioactive, but this is nothing compared to existing nuclear facilities, the heavy metal toxicity of a coal plant, or a petroleum refinery.
Neither CO2, CO, ash, CFCs nor the ingredients of acid rain are produced. There are no rods to melt down. Environmentally pure MASSIVE amounts of electricity can be produced, as if we were turning on the sun for a little burst of energy with each pellet. The "plant" can be shut down by simply shutting off the lasers and not feeding the sphere any more pellets.
The energy supply is estimated at 30 million years of deuterium.
Neutron ejection was first achieved in 1971. Since the founding of the Energy Department in 1977, research has twitched and shivered and continued in a halting way. Major developments in lasers and accurate clocking mechanisms, as well as astonishing progress in semiconductor technology, most of it occurring in the private sector, have moved this technology from the distant future to something likely within 20 more years.
Link:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/energy_for_the_future/life/
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