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Okay last idea, so I looked at fusor calculations and apparently one of them is: Cross Sectional Area*Particles*Density of target*Target Volume So I was wondering couldn't we simply increase the target volume or the density? Well actually I guess Density is a bit out of the question as it...

How about using fast neutrons? Say there's a highly pressurised container, containing the deuterium or hydrogen nuclei, with a source providing it with fast neutrons, if one of these were to be absorbed by the nuclei, assuming that the neutron is very high energy, would it increase the momentum...

Okay, thanks

I don't mean a Tokamak I mean the idea stated in the first post on this thread except instead of a magnetic field current will be used to charge up the sphere to fuse the nuclei by creating a stronger force of repulsion than that from the protons

So the idea could hypothetically work?

So, would there be a force acting on the protons? And of what magnitude?

Wait sorry I'm not exactly that great at physics correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that law for electrostatics? What if there is current flowing?

Alright my mistake about the magnetic fields the protons interaction with it will be quite small but what about if the sphere was charged instead? I did some crude calculations using coulomb's law and found that the sphere would have to be very tiny to overcome the massive forces of repulsion...

So the formula for the coulomb force is Therefore the force between 2 Protons at 5 femtometers is 9.24N, I guess you're right it is unlikely that there could be any net energy gain of this

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Then what do you base your claim off? Because to fuse correct me if I'm wrong but you need to give the nuclei 1MeV of force to overcome the coulomb barrier that force does not need to come from temperature, it could be done with a strong enough push, such as from an electromagnetic field

Okay, but can I see the calculations?

Yes it will be ionized

I'm not talking about using the field to confine plasma, I was thinking of actually using the field to cause fusion by producing a more powerful electromagnetic field of repulsion from the walls of the cavity then from the protons thus forcing them to crush together and hopefully fuse

I was wondering if you could use a very strong magnetic field to produce nuclear fusion. The basic idea is a spherical cavity containing Deuterium (and possibly tritium) nuclei whose walls will be electromagnets whose fields slowly increase in strength and will repel the nuclei and thus the ball...