A
new idea to obtain clean fusion energy
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we had only clean, abundant and cheap energy, the world would be a better
place... At the moment, for example, 35 countries are working together building an experimental fusion reactor in the south of France called ITER. Its estimated cost will be more than 22 000 million euros. And there are and have been many many more fusion experiments.. So impossible that after so many years we find suddenly a rather easy way to accomplish fusion? The "egg of Columbus"? Maybe this: a vacuum chamber, with a couple of statically charged rings and spheres placed in a magnetic field, in which we inject deuterium ions and electrons...
The magnetic field of about 1 Tesla is quite high but possible, and the voltages of about 100 kV are also quite high, but possible. The deuterium ions are injected into the vacuum chamber, start moving up and down, stay confined, and achieve in the computer simulation such high speeds that fusion could be possible. The electrons are injected too and stay also confined, forming a negative cloud near the center. This will attract the deuterium ions and possibly improve the fusion. The computer simulation is promising, but only simulates the behaviour of a few hundreds of particles, whereas in reality there are millions and millions. Therefore real experiments should be performed to investigate this.
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