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Re: tesla and fusion
Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Steve,
You may be interested to know that in order to get two interacting
particles to fuse, the nuclei need to approach within an order of
10^-14 m. This is about 1/10000 of the diameter of a hydrogen
atom. The nuclear radius of a particle is generally taken to be
1.5*10^(-15)*A^(1/3) where A is the atomic weight of the particle (A
needs to be less than 20 for fusion to occur). The obstacle to having
this occur is the coulomb barrier. In order to have enough kinetic
energy to over come this barrier and get to about 10^-14 m, the
kinetic energy needs to be:
Ue = 1.44 * 10^5 * Z1*Z2 ev
where Z1 and Z2 are the atomic numbers of the two interacting particles
The temperature needed to get great numbers of fusion reactions is
about 1 billion degrees Kelvin. The temperature needed to get some
reactions can be as low as 40 million degrees Kelvin but generally it
is thought that 100 million degrees Kelvin is needed for fusion.
Gerry R.
Original poster: "steve sterling" <unityfound@xxxxxxxxx>
hey folks, did anyone hear about this guy using a tesla coil for
nuclear fusion. i seen him on youtube and he wants to put a super
sized tesla coil inside a westinghouse fission reactor.
cool
stever sterling
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7Urb3cHBE>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7Urb3cHBE
their website at noblefuse dot org