Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ...
by Accujack on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:40PM
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>fire a stream of hydrogen ions with a particle accelerator at a chunk of Boron 11.
This is what's wrong. The energy required to accelerate the ions is much higher than the energy which can be harvested this way.
The concept under discussion substitutes a simpler setup that accelerates particles using laser induced plasmas from a very small table top laser. The thing could "almost" be battery powered.
This is what's wrong. The energy required to accelerate the ions is much higher than the energy which can be harvested this way.
The concept under discussion substitutes a simpler setup that accelerates particles using laser induced plasmas from a very small table top laser. The thing could "almost" be battery powered.