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Focus Fusion
Focus Fusion is projected to be a safe, clean, easy, reliable energy solution that could provide electricity at a few tenths of a cent per kilowatt-hour.
Purports to be a far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to hot fusion, in contrast to what the international project (ITER) in France is pursuing. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) is currently researching and developing the dense plasma focus (DPF) for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion.
End product would be a 5 to 20 MW power plant the size of a gas station, which would cost between $200,000 and $300,000 to build. One person could operate two dozen such stations remotely.
On Dec. 18, 2008, LPP announced the initiation of a two-year-long experimental project to test the scientific feasibility of Focus Fusion, controlled nuclear fusion using the dense plasma focus (DPF) device and hydrogen-boron fuel. Hydrogen-boron fuel produces almost no neutrons and allows the direct conversion of energy into electricity. The goals of the experiment are first, to confirm the achievement the high temperatures first observed in previous experiments at Texas A&M University second, to greatly increase the efficiency of energy transfer into the tiny plasmoid where the fusion reactions take place third, to achieve the high magnetic fields needed for the quantum magnetic field effect which will reduce cooling of the plasma by X-ray emission and finally, to use hydrogen-boron fuel to demonstrate greater fusion energy production than energy fed into the plasma (positive net energy production). http://pesn.com/2009/02/20/9501526_Lawrenceville_Plasma_Physics_funded/
The basic technology of LPP’s approach is covered by US Patent 7,482,607.
About
Official Websites
LawrencevillePlasmaPhysics.com
http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/ - Company website. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. founded in 1974.
FocusFusion.org
http://www.focusfusion.org - (non-profit, educational website)
Interviews
On Oct. 26, 2009, Congress:Founder:Sterling D. Allan will be conducting a 1-hour, live interview with Eric Lerner as part of the Free Energy Now radio show. On Oct. 16, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics announced that they successfully completed the first phase of testing their new dense plasma focus set-up, which will enable them to proceed in experimentation to the point of hopefully demonstrating excess energy by the end of 2010 -- a system that could eventually be much cheaper, modular, and safer than other nuclear technologies.
Video Interview with Thomas Valone (wmv) - Sterling Allan's interview with Tom Valone at the ExtraOrdinary Technology conference in Salt Lake City, July 28-31, 2005. When asked "What energy technology looks most promising, that is not getting due attention", well-known and revered energy researcher and U.S. Patent reviewer, Directory:Thomas Valone, Ph.D., answers: "Focus Fusion". (OSEN)
Videos
RT America, April 2012
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Plasma Fusion -- hoax or breakthrough reality? - A group of scientists in New Jersey claim to have made a breakthrough that would bring mankind closer to creating fusion energy on Earth -- a type of energy that the sun has been producing for billions of years. Traditionally considered a Holy Grail of science -- could plasma fusion finally become a reality? RT's Anastasia Churkina was the first reporter to access the laboratory. (YouTube / RTAmerica April 20, 2012)
Google Tech Talks
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Focus Fusion: The Fastest Route to Cheap, Clean Energy - Eric Lerner gives a presentation to Google Tech Talks. Technical description with animations. (Google Video Oct. 3, 2007)
Focus Fusion On Google Tech Talks (Slashdot Oct. 27, 2007)
ABSTRACT (from video posting)
Speaker: Eric LernerEric J. Lerner is President of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Berkeley Heights, NJ. He has been an independent researcher in plasma physics since 1979, and has become internationally known for his studies linking cosmic plasma phenomena and laboratory fusion devices, especially the dense plasma focus. He has developed original theories of quasars, large scale structure, the microwave background and the origin of light elements. He is the author of The Big Bang Never Happened, published in 1991 by Random House. In 2006 he was a Visiting Scientist at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
To bring the whole of humanity up to the living standards of the developed world ... all requires a new source of energy that is clean, inexhaustible and much cheaper than any existing source -- fossil, nuclear, solar or wind. Fusion with hydrogen-boron fuel, which allows direct conversion of fusion energy to electricity, can be that source. It could cut energy costs more than ten-fold. It produces no radioactive waste and would be safe enough to situate in residential neighborhoods.
Of the three approaches to achieving hydrogen-boron fusion, focus fusion, using the dense plasma focus device, has experimentally achieved conditions that are closest to those needed for net power generation. It is the only approach that can utilize the high magnetic field effect, which reduces the cooling of plasma by x-rays, helping to achieve the multi-billion-degree temperatures needed for fusion. A currently-planned three-year, $2 million experiment, if funded, can demonstrate the scientific feasibility of focus fusion.
This presentation will review the history and status of focus fusion and briefly compare it to the two competing approaches, Field Reversed Configuration (recently funded by Paul Allen) and Inertial Electrostatic Confinement, championed by Dr. Robert Bussard, a recent Google Tech Talk speaker.
Attributes
Clean
No emissions
No residual radiation
Few tenths of a cent per kilowatt-hour
Small footprint
Input fuel is readily available and barely used
5-20 MW plant would cost around $200,000 to $300,000
Applications
Ideal for larger applications
Suitable as a primary grid power source
Modular
Superior performance in use for thrust in space travel
With additional engineering, could be applied to smaller applications
Ease of use
Start-up/shut-down time is near instantaneous
No water-steam-turbine cycle required
Direct to electricity
Very low maintenance
Very low operation personnel involvement
Safe
Operators not exposed to radiation threat
No chance for explosion
No possibility of melt-down
Cannot be turned into a WMD
Credibility
Initial funding came from NASA/JPL
Research accomplished at universities
Published in peer-reviewed journals
Receives highest recommendation from seasoned energy professional, Directory:Thomas Valone (Video)
How it Works
How the Theoretical Focus Fusion Reactor Works (PESN)
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2005/11/02/9600199_Focus_Fusion/plasmafocus.jpg
Comparison of Focus Fusion to the Tokamak
Comparison of Focus Fusion to the Tokamak
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Publications
Electron, ion energy >100keV in a dense plasma (pdf) (arxiv.org)
Prospects for P11B Fusion with the Dense Plasma Focus: New Results (pdf) - 25 pages, 6 figures. Invited presentation, 5th Symposium "Current Trends in International Fusion Research: A Review" March 24-28, 2003, Washington, D.C V.2 corrected typos. (arxiv.org)
Survey
Focus Fusion Survey - Where would you rate Focus Fusion in terms of being an energy technology of promise?
Results of 'Focus Fusion' survey by the New Energy Congress - First official action of NEC in regard to a specific technology. This is not to be construed as a full-fledge inspection of the technology, but only a preliminary opinion. (Posted Nov. 30, 2005)
Company's News
News Page (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics)
Free Energy Blog:2014:02:05 - "LPP and the Focus Fusion Society are organizing to raise this spring, from small contributors, the money we need for the final year of research on our “Focus Fusion” approach to fusion energy." (Free Energy Blog February 5, 2014)
Directory:Best Exotic Clean Energy Technologies: Directory:Nuclear > Directory:Fusion > Directory:Focus Fusion > Acceptance to Physics of Plasmas confirms LPP is hot! - One point eight billion degrees. Yes, that's billion with a "b," LPP's team received word February 27th that a paper describing our achievement of fusion reactions from ions confined at energies equivalent to over 1.8 billion degrees C was accepted by Physics of Plasmas, "the most highly cited journal devoted fully to plasma physics." (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics February 27, 2012)
In the News
Fusion]] > Directory:Focus Fusion > Focus Fusion: hot $80k raised Oxford lecture safety - Research news: High electron temperatures confirm FF-1 is hot • Iran collaborators cut erosion • Crowdfunding launched Gizmag coverage, $80 k raised so far • Lerner speaks at Oxford University • New information on Focus Fusion Safety (News:Pure Energy Blog May 30, 2014)
Free Energy Blog:2014:05:06 - "Scientists at LPP Fusion, led by Chief Scientist Eric Lerner, are just one step away from this groundbreaking technology and we need your help for the final push." (Free Energy Blog May 6, 2014)
Free Energy Blog:2014:03:04 - The tungsten electrodes needed for LPP’s next set of experiments are rolling forward. A crowdfunding effort, with 60 volunteers so far, is planned to kick off on Earth Day, April 22. (Free Energy Blog March 4, 2014)
Free Energy Blog:2013:12:11 - In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US fusion program, has concluded that the innovative effort deserves “a much higher level of investment … based on their considerable progress to date.” The report concludes that “In the committee’s view [LPP’s] approach to fusion power … is worthy of a considerable expansion of effort.” (Free Energy Blog December 11, 2013)
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Focus Fusion in Discover magazine The June 2008 issue of Discover magazine has a very favorable, if brief, article on Focus Fusion in their Ideas section.
Practical Fusion, or Just a Bubble? - An overview of various approaches to useful fusion, including sonofusion, Eric Lerner's Directory:Focus Fusion, the $10 billion international Tokamac project. (NY Times Feb. 27, 2007)
Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor - Linked to PESN story, with comments. (Slashdot Nov. 5, 2005)
Focus Fusion poses competition to $10 billion Tokamak - Purports to be a far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to hot fusion, in contrast to what the international project (ITER) in France is pursuing. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is currently researching and developing the Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion. (PESN Nov. 2, 2005)
Presentation preparation - preparing for funding consideration.
Video Interview with Thomas Valone (wmv) - Sterling Allan's interview with Tom Valone at the ExtraOrdinary Technology conference in Salt Lake City, July 28-31, 2005. When asked "What energy technology looks most promising, that is not getting due attention", well-known and revered energy researcher and U.S. Patent reviewer, Directory:Thomas Valone, Ph.D., answers: "Focus Fusion". (OSEN)
More Information
Google > site: user.erols.com/iri/ - Tom Valone's References to "Focus Fusion"
Contact
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc.
40 Ridge Drive
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
Phone: (732) 356-5900
Comments
See Talk:Directory:Focus Fusion
Related Technologies
http://www.iter.org/index.htm - ITER / Tokomak's official website.
Directory:Electron Power Systems Ltd - Toroid plasma technology that remains stable without magnetic confinement, by using background gas pressure for confinement instead, could provide clean, non-polluting energy technology at one-tenth the cost of present energy generation.
See also
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