Recent content by belbear

This reference to the Tom Dolan work is a dead link. I found another source: http://www.woodruffscientific.com/fusion_textbook

I'm not a physicist myself (leave alone a plasma physicist) so I can't dream those equations up for you. :shy: I will however keep looking into this and try to get equations regarding plasmoids from people who can know them (and are willing to share them) Anyway, Astronuc, I wish to thank...

Yes there will be, but not as inefficient as a thermal steam cycle. Even if less than half of the X-ray energy can be converted to electricity, the machine can output net power. Raising the efficiency can be a subject of later research. And X-rays are not the only way the DPF outputs energy...

I invite you to take a new look at http://focusfusion.org/" After a long search for funding, Eric Lerner and his team from LPP are really on the move now, constructing a new, most powerful DPF (Dense Plasma Focus) machine, exclusively devoted to fusion research, that should deliver a...