march 9 focus fusion nyc presentation
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Eric Lerner presents Focus Fusion as the Short Route to Fusion at a March 9, 2014 event in ManhattanTRANSCRIPT
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March 9, 2014
A Short Route
to
FUSION
Cheap, Clean, Safe & Unlimited Energy
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In the US, the median
person pays $1 in 6 for
energy
$9,000/year, $22 a day
Worldwide: $1 a
day for energy
$3 a day
total income
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Total energy costs:
$ 5 trillion a year
Global rate of increase
in debt:
$5 trillion a year
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7 Million Deaths Annually
from Fossil Fuel Pollution
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What Is Fusion?
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Tokamak
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What Is Focus Fusion?
Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Within a
Dense Plasma Focus Device
Running on Aneutronic Fuel.
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What Is Aneutronic Fusion? It’s a fusion using aneutronic fuel, ideally made of hydrogen and
boron, pB11, which produces no neutrons and thus no radioactive waste.
Aneutronic → No neutrons → No Radioactive waste
LPPHYSICS.COM
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Direct energy conversion → No $$$ turbines
Why Is Aneutronic Fusion Cheap?No neutrons → No Radioactive waste
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Only Focus fusion leads to much cheaper
clean energy
―If you have another clean way to produce [energy]
at 2 to 10 cents per Kwhr, the world does not
change,‖ says Brian Wang. ―Only [with] LPP, if they
can get it down to 0.1 cent per Kwhr does the
world change.‖
Motherboard, October 29, 2013
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Spiral GalaxyQuasars
Beam From Star Formation
REPRODUCING NATURAL INSTABILITIES
Solar Flares
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Dense Plasma Focus :
small inexpensive device
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Inside of FF-1’s Generator
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Energy (X-rays, Ion Beams) Capture Device
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Where Are We?
Ion temperature— goal achieved —over
1.8 billion degrees, enough to ignite pB11
Confinement time— goal achieved 20 ns—
more than 8 ns goal
Energy transfer to plasmoid—
over 50% of goal
Density—must increase by 10,000
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From NJ to your neighborhood
1 Year – conclude scientific feasibility
4 Years – for commercial generator
FF-X, 2018FF-1, 2015
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Science Fiction?
Other physicists don’t think so
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Safe
NO neutrons from main reaction
NO high energy neutrons
NO radioactive waste—electrodes contain
less radioactivity than a roomful of
people.
Generator safe to service without
protection 9 hours after turn-off
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COSTS
For 5 MW generator, mass
production
$0.08-$0.20/W
Electric cost
Less than 0.3 cents/kwH
vs best today of 6 cents/kwH
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Far Less Cost Than
Any Existing Source
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Energy Benefits
17% increase in real income for median
US resident
44% increase in real income for median
person in the world
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Distributed Power5 MW generators, safe enough to
put in neighborhoods
far more reliability in disasters,
rapid deployment to towns and
villages throughout the world
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JOBS, Services and Infrastructure
$5 TRILLION per year not
spent on energy
100-150 million new jobs
globally
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Fusion for Peace
No more war to prop up the price of oil
Fission energy is obsolete—
lock up the uranium mines
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Fusion for the Environment
End deadly pollution from coal, diesel, gasoline
End oil spills, mining devastation
Total recycling with plasma torch
Money released to end deforestation, environmental
clean-up,
No greenhouse gases
No radioactive waste
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Fusion for the Environment
End deadly pollution from coal, diesel,
gasoline
End oil spills, mining devastation
Total recycling with plasma torch
Money released to end deforestation,
environmental clean-up
No greenhouse gases
No radioactive waste
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Space Exploration
A fusion rocket could get to Mars in
2 weeks
A multistage interstellar fusion
rocket could in theory attain 1/3
the speed of light
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Steps To Increase Density
50x-- Achieve theoretical density—tungsten
electrodes to eliminate impurity
10x-- Increase current to 2.8 MA
20x-- Better compression with heavier pB11
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Needed:
Beryllium electrodes
Tungsten is fine for impurity, but
absorbs too many x-rays
Beryllium far more transparent
But costs-- (single unit)--$250,000
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Crowdfunding
Launch on Indiegogo April 22
Goal $250,000 (nice to get more!)
Need $1 million,
12 months to scientific feasibility
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Need volunteers!
Need publicity—web, social media
Start online discussions everywhere
Goals:
100 by March 15
1,000 by April 22
Each one reach 3 in 3 weeks!
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Our Intellectual Property:
• US patent 7,482,607
• Chinese Patent No. 200780007065.7
• Australian Patent 2007314648
• Patent applications , same priority date:
Europe, Canada, India
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Aneutronic Fusion
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