An Overview

Hey,

In this particular post I will create a quick list of all the ideas 'to-review' in the near future.  This post would be updated as new ideas are discovered in the web.


HOT-Fusion

Magnetic Confinement

• Tokamaks
• ITER, JET, etc... 
• Stellarators
• TJ-II, Weldstein 7X, etc..
• Cross-fire
• Brasilian dude, not much serious coverage in the media, I wonder why? http://www.crossfirefusion.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor/crossfire-fusion-reactor.html 

• Tri-alpha energy 
• General Fusion - Canada
• Ignitor - Italy/Russia

Electrostatic Confinement

•  Polywell (Robert Bussard)
• There are a few amateurs pushing this forward
• Energy-Matter conversion corporation also
•  Fusors
•  Why don't they work?
• http://www.fusor.net/
• http://www.thestate.com/2012/06/10/2309526/17-year-old-physics-star-making.html#.UMPjj9FJyBs
 
 

Dynamic-Plasmoid ? Inertial Confinement

• Plasma focus: http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/
• They 'benefit' from instabilities to ignite their plasma
• They slow down their alphas to get energy.
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COLD-Fusion

I will not focus on this regime of fusion since I am no chemist. I will try, nonetheless, to deepen major newcasts.

• Oh man, more people risking their careers down the drain:
• http://phys.org/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-video.html

An intro

Hello there,

The present blog has a simple goal:  to serve as a hub of simplified reviews on nuclear fusion proposals.  I am currently studying a masters in nuclear fusion within the European EMFusion consortium, and thus find all the fusion ideas posted in the internet very intriging.


This 'database' would include at least a simplified analysis of any idea posted.  I will try to the best of my ability and time-resources to describe the fusion ideas in more detail than the average 'news cast'.  The lack of depth in media fusion-reviews is the 'raison-de-etre' of this blog.  Also, I would like my 15 year-old sister to understand it!

I would finally like to add that the reviews are my personal opinion. I shall try to observe projects from a 'Saganian' perspective (if I might coin the term); however, I am an engineer by training and thus will question the feasibility of ideas beyond the fact that they are 'cool'.

Cheers,