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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 05:04 AM 2/27/2006, you wrote:
Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
In a message dated 2/26/06 4:58:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
http://www.powermanagementdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180205456
Supposedly fusion power has been demonstrated using piezo-electric
crystals with HV excitation.
Guether, Danon, and Saglime
"Nuclear reactions induced by a pyroelectric accelerator"
Physics Review Letters, 96 054803, 10 Feb 2006
Nothing special, fusion wise.. Plain old hot fusion with
electrostatic acceleration. They use the (high) voltage created by a
pyroelectric crystal to accelerate deuterons to 200 keV and run them
into a deuterated target and get DD fusion, with some neutrons.
Won't power a city (now)
Won't power a city, ever.. It's a pretty darn inefficient way to do
fusion, and even if you get substantial amounts of fusion, you're
still faced with the problem of turning fast moving neutrons into
electrical power.
but may be a
convenient source for penetrating charged and neutral particles.
I don't see that it's any more convenient than conventional neutron
sources, such as those used in the oil industry for well logging.
They use a small HV power supply to do DT fusion (which has about 100
times the neutron yield of DD). Or, a small Am/Be source or Cf source.
There's an enormous literature out there on making neutrons at lab
scale, and you can do it in your garage with a NST and a vacuum pump.
(google for "fusor")
This is a reputable "e-zine" so adds considerable credibility.
http://www.powermanagementdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180205456
Lots of application articles of import to designing power electronic
converters
(think OLTC, SSTC, DRSSTC derivatives).