Hot Fusion

IMPROVEMENTS:

• linear-contained plasmas: reflecting radiant energy back along the linear center, to increase resorption, by lining sidewalls with crinkled mirroring, corrugated to deflect its synchrotron radiation from its generation perpendicular to its plasma magnetic containment line, near parallel
• general plasmas: micron short conductive segmented deflector array, electrodynamic repulsion of electrons (or deuterons) back from the walls by fine-tuned particle-motion wave functions in segments, synchronized to repel:- repeatedly returning wave(s) in the segment forms a metastable opposition-pad under the approaching particle
  • [may be enhanced by convex 3D-shaping of segments, putting ends below the middles of the adjacent segments]
  • [needs about 1 electron per about 3 eV of incoming particle velocity, eg. about 1.3 M electrons to damp a 4 MeV proton]
  • [or about 1 electron per 0.2 eV if not superconductive, to keep solidstate]
  • [may need surface passivation (nonconductive eg. glass) to forestall electron-emission]
• electrostatic removal of energy-wasting thermal-electrons, which, the high temperature of hot fusion would already expel from the plasma; which in magnetic bottles rotate opposing deuterons, scattering, rehomogenizing; rarely fusion usably (1.29 MeV is needed to form a neutron but which escapes and a neutrino), and high-speed avoid helping any d-e-d fusion while also interfering with any d-e-d fusion in process ... (The optimal nuclear state electron density is the beta capture-drip centerline 54% (*); and the condensing nucleus cannot distinguish electrons to choose only one: until done).
  The binding electrons can also be mass-entangled keeping them central-line in the plasma by deep-trapping in helium (at 24.6 eV, is 11 eV, 120K° over deuterium at 13.6 eV),- acting as a high temperature catastrictive convertor: a population invertor effectually drawing electrons out of the deuteron sub-population in the He + 2D mix (50%:50% mole).
• electron-deprived 'hot' plasma can be kept in a low-static-pressure containment solid-vessel having nonconductive walls, as the charge of the proton plasma draws the electrons ensconced in the walls, back inward. [Residual thermodynamic radiation pressure, though reduced by electron suppression, may still be large]
• The removed thermal electrons would be deposited on a passivated concentric inwall [cylindric].
• [Also, it has been reported that, electrons caught in nonconducting walls, keep hot electrons back away by electrostatic repulsion, sufficiently to drop the wall surface temperature abruptly in millimeters]
• The highly-protonic central plasma would be circulated traversally to increase self-containment (eg. wound on the cylinder).
• electrostatic repulsion pressure within a charged plasma ring can be reduced by convolving the outer, electron ring back through the middle, as a figure-8 equivalent of a covalent bond between two parallel proton plasmas (or of a no-hole short-ring with itself),- even as a deuteron is stable, though a neutron is not.
• mixing heavier nuclei among the deuterons relocates the upper population of deuterons further 'up-the-hill' and so improves the fusion rate: Midweight massive nuclei act as 'racket's against lighter nuclei as 'ball's, accelerating, and dimensionally pinching,- instantaneously dumping thermal energy; Lightweight nuclei do more head-on-pumping than rear-end-chase-depumping;- Whereas without heavier nuclei, deuterons sideswipe to pump extremal velocities higher statistically, (plus electro-magnetically interact). (A possible corollary is our sun's center 'dirtied' with many Earth-masses of heavy nuclei: explaining some of the solar neutrino detection 'paucity'.)
• heavy ion plasmas also do inner-electron chemistry (electron-degeneracy chemistry), with covalent pairs making neutral zones between, capable of capturing and isolating deuterons with extremely high storage-energy, for colliding pairs of ion-pairs (at their middles): triplet collisions are also frequent, and even more effectual. [Scandium was suggested in my screenplay, for its noted superabundance in the sun] [high-pressure electron-degeneracy phase-change-states, was mentioned in my screenplay]
• giant-solid chamber technology: plasma surrounded by gas, by liquified wall, by solid bulkhead heat-exchanger

  RELATED APPLICATIONS:

• high-tesla mu-metal shielding (very-high-tesla rare-earth (mu)metal, etc.) to bounce particles (both protonic and electronic) ... very high-maintenance in thermal proximity may be usable in special applications, eg. secondary interface shielding of uncontained radiation
• high-tesla mu-glass shielding (ibid)

(Roughly half the thermal electron-loading overburden can be removed and the plasma will remain very stable (*), and even improve, splitting in unhomogenized corotating microcells increasing proton collisions head-on ... binding electrons core-shielding quadratured positive paired-nuclei d-e-d semi-isolated and semi-insulated at equilibrium.

* (Proton-electron chain repulsion can be overcome by intersticial fraction-electron-charge shielding at the half-way interposition:-- its cumulative end-pair repulsion is (1+fec²) Σ 1/n² against its end-pair attraction of 2(fec) Σ 1/(n-.5)² - 4(fec) ,--requiring only an interpositional 0.3-electron charge fraction to hold the chain together (electrons must weave or braid stacked-figure-eights through the line of protons) ... And thus if the dimensionality of the plasma can be kept near one-dimensional, as on a quiet magnetic line, then the binding electron-charge fraction can be significantly dropped, and the line will almost shrink itself to fusion ...

MODE IMPROVEMENTS:

With significant spacing between proton-electron lines, cumulative repulsion is 2(1-fec) Σ 1/n ... [reconstruction] against the magnetic bottle, or against an intersticial attraction (*) up to 2(1-fec) Σ 1/(n-.5) ... [reconstruction] ... and though tending unstable, will hold it.

* (See compact fusion drive proposal, model-A.)

Beyond the plasmoid-drip line (toward maximal electron paucity), dynamic semi-homogenous plasma results as the homogenous plasma tends to fracture, increasing the plasma pressure by increasing the inhomogeneities count.

A charged plasma string should also be more stable against pinch instability exhibited by neutral plasmas, as electrons chase protons.

Furthermore, in choice of fusant, helium-3 nuclei bind second ionization electrons 4x tighter while costing slightly less than 2x more energy to ionize first electrons, than hydrogen-2 nuclei deuterons which have only first electrons to be either bound or ionized; thus efficiently allowing plasma temperatures 4x higher.

[under construction]

[A secondary use may be in construction of pseudo-nuclear proton-bombs, like ball-lightning, unleashed in impact with a source of thermally available electrons, or chilled or compressed to sufficient density to trigger its tenous energy release for momentary power generation]

A premise discovery under the title,