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Blacklight Power and hot fusion laser at NIF




by Christophe » 14/02/14, 15:04

Bonjour à tous

I promised you to come back to the new power source alleged by Blacklight Power (BLP) when more info about the 28 2014 demo will be available. Well, we now find on the site of BLP a video covering the event. See the entry dated 29 January 2014, on the page "What's New" site

http://www.blacklightpower.com/whats-new/

The video lasts 2h30, and unfortunately the sound is not very good. I will try to summarize as much as possible the demonstration.

This involved passing a large electrical current through a small solid pellet consisting of a metal and a solid hydrated compound. However, the water molecule trapped in the hydrated compound acts both as a catalyst and a source of hydrogen. The intense current flowing through the pellet from the power source of an arc welder makes it possible to produce the atomic hydrogen required for the transition of the electron to orbits closer to the atomic nucleus, when a suitable catalyst is present (H2O).

It emerges from the energy in the form of heat and radiation in the extreme ultraviolet. This released heat is measured by a precision calorimeter and compared to the electrical energy supplied by the welder. In the experiments conducted on the January 28, approximately 1000 Joules of energy emerges in a thousandth of a second, giving a power of 1 million watts during this time. For the moment, therefore, there is no continuous energy production or transformation into electricity.

They achieved gains (Coefficient of Performance, COP) of 2,15, for the experiments performed, which corresponds to an energy release of more than twice the electrical energy required to produce the reaction. According to Randell Mills the gains can go up to 100, but they have not demonstrated it, at least publicly. Was it because the reaction is explosive, as we see on the video, and they wanted to maintain a level of safety for the public demonstration, hence the use of tiny amounts of "fuel"?

I admit to being disappointed by this demonstration, although it does not question the reality of hydrinos. I would have expected a gain (COP) greater than 10. There we would have been much closer to a commercial product. Their goal is to build a prototype capable of producing 1000 reactions at the second, which would give a million watts virtually continuously. But it's going to take them many more years, if the gains are not quickly increased by 5 to 10.

The company Industrial Heat that I told you about in my 1er February 2014 e-mail, is much closer to a commercial product, since their RNBÉ reactors run for months continuously, releasing about ten kilowatts (10 000 watts).

But, in spite of my disappointment with the BLP demonstration, to relativize their 2 gain it is interesting to see that the scientific community is currently in flux because the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Livermore has just reached for the first time a 1 gain in hot fusion, thanks to a complex of 192 gigantic extremely powerful lasers that bombard a target of deuterium and tritium (two heavy forms of hydrogen) at the same time, with pulses of a few billionths of a second. They thus produce helium (by fusion of deuterium and tritium). The gain of 1 obtained means that they obtained as much energy in the fusion reaction as they sent to the target in the form of ultraviolet radiation emitted by the lasers. However, the problem is that only 1% of the energy supplied to lasers goes to the target in the form of UV radiation. Therefore, considering the total energy provided to operate the lasers, the actual gain is not 1 but rather 0,01. This is the figure that should be used to compare with the gain of 2 in the BLP experiments on hydrinos, since BLP considers the total energy supplied to the "fuel" pellets.

You should also know that the NIF complex at Livermore with its 192 lasers as long as a football field has cost more than 3 billions of dollars !!! For more info on the recent announcement of the NIF on the gain obtained by laser fusion see

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... ear-fusion

http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2014/02 ... leaire.php

So, even if the results of the BLP demonstration are disappointing, we must not forget that they still got a real gain about 200 higher than the NIF, at a fraction of the cost.

Let us hope that our governments open their eyes and decide to invest in R&D to develop "New hydrogen energies" (hydrinos, low energy nuclear reactions, RNBÉ), which offer the VERY REAL possibility of producing energy. energy without greenhouse gases and radioactive waste. Here are some videos for those who want to know more on the subject

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxeKeuh_ ... GZ8yfX5Vtv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvaX3vRtRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE1W8NcYsSE


Sincerely

Pierre Langlois, Ph.D., physicist
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by elephant » 14/02/14, 15:37

Industrial Heat, that Mr Langlois quotes, are not those who recently bought Rossi's license?

Why on earth does not Mr Langlois intervene directly in the forums ?
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by Christophe » 14/02/14, 15:43

He is registered since 2011 ...

But I think that forums are not his cup of tea ... I will send him your remark by email ...
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by moinsdewatt » 14/02/14, 17:50

blacklightpower is another bank.

Let us hope that our governments open their eyes and decide to invest in R&D to develop "New hydrogen energies" (hydrinos, low energy nuclear reactions, RNBÉ), which offer the VERY REAL possibility of producing energy. energy without greenhouse gases and radioactive waste. Here are some videos for those who want to know more on the subject


it's not videos that are scientific evidence.
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by Christophe » 14/02/14, 18:12

Enerzine version: http://www.enerzine.com/603/16931+etats ... aire+.html

The release of energy from the fusion process equal to or greater than the amount of energy used to compress fuel - has long been considered the "holy grail" of inertial fusion science by confinement.

A key step on the path to fusion is to achieve "fuel savings", where the energy produced by nuclear fusion becomes greater than the amount of energy injected into the fusion fuel.

Although ignition remains the ultimate goal, the step to achieve "fuel savings" of more than 1 has been achieved for the first time on an installation. In an article published on February 12 in the online edition of the journal Nature, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) detailed a series of experiments involving the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which show an improvement in the performance performance compared to past experiences.

“What's really interesting is that we are seeing an increasingly steady increase in yield from the priming process as we push the implosion a little bit more each time,” said lead author. Omar Hurricane.

Ignition occurs when alpha particles, helium nuclei produced in the DT fusion process, exert their energy on the deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel rather than escape. The alpha particles further heat up the fuel, which increases the rate of fusion reaction, thus producing more alpha particles. This feedback process is the mechanism that leads to ignition. As indicated in the nature journal, the priming process was demonstrated in a series of experiments in which the melting efficiency was systematically increased by more than one factor of 10 compared to previous approaches.

"We put the capsule that contains the fuel - a microscopic layer of ice-cold deuterium and tritium - in a one-centimeter-long cylinder, then we laser fire to trigger the fusion," added Debbie Callahan, a physicist at the NIF.

Compressed by this bombardment, the capsule becomes 35 times smaller, "like starting the experiment with a basketball and ending with a pea, to such an extent that it implodes and the fuel sinks. 'collapses on itself to merge, ”explained the researcher. "The pressure generated on this tiny point is 150 billion times stronger than that of the Earth's atmosphere, with a density 2,5 to 3 times greater than that which reigns in the heart of the Sun," Omar said in turn. Hurricane.

The experimental series has been carefully designed to avoid a rupture of the plastic shell that surrounds and encloses the DT fuel. It has been hypothesized that this rupture was the source of a degraded fusion performance observed in past experiments. By modifying the laser pulse used to compress the DT fuel, the instability that caused this tear was removed. The higher yields thus obtained confirmed the hypothesis, and demonstrated the appearance of ignition.

The experimental results have identified better simulations than previous computer experiments, providing an important reference point for the models used to predict the behavior of the material under conditions similar to those generated during a nuclear explosion, a main objective of the NIF.

The main mission of the NIF is to provide an experimental overview of controlled nuclear fusion. This experience is therefore an important step in demonstrating that the stock can be stored in a safe, secure and reliable place without a return to nuclear testing. Physical ignition and performance also play a key role in the basic sciences, and for potential energy applications.

“There is still work to be done and physical issues that need to be addressed before we get to the end,” said Omar Hurricane, “but our team is working to meet all of their challenges, and that's what the scientific team feeds. "

In France, a facility similar to the NIF is under construction. This is the Laser Megajoule based near Bordeaux which should be put into service before the end of the year by the CEA.

What is fusion?

“Fusion is the reaction that takes place in the heart of the Sun and the stars. What we perceive in the form of light and heat is the result of this reaction. During this process, hydrogen nuclei collide and coalesce to form heavier helium atoms, releasing considerable amounts of energy. "

"Nuclear fusion is a promising long-term energy option, the principles of which have long been known."

Fuels of the fusion reaction

"Various associations of isotopes of light elements are capable of producing a fusion reaction. However, in fusion machines, it is the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction that is the most efficient. ITER and the future power plant DEMO demonstrators will use this combination of elements to perform the fusion reaction. "

"To obtain deuterium, it is enough to distill water, whether it is fresh water or sea water. This resource is widely available and almost inexhaustible. One liter of sea water contains 33 milligrams of deuterium that is routinely extracted for scientific and industrial purposes. "

"Tritium is the radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It decays rapidly and is only present in nature in trace amounts. However, tritium can be produced by the interaction of a neutron and of a lithium atom. In ITER, this mode of lithium generation will be explored experimentally. "

What about the ITER project

The development of controlled magnetic confinement fusion uses high-tech solutions and a fine understanding of plasma physics and its interactions with the reactor shell.

Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, India and Russia have joined in the ITER project.

The machine being built in Cadarache (France) will have to integrate the technological and scientific advances and make the integrated proof of their feasibility, before the development of the first reactor.
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by sen-no-sen » 14/02/14, 18:30

Christophe I believe that there is a huge confusion between the fact of comparing the NIF, ITER or the ZR machine and the "technology" of Black light power!

In the first cases cited, the goal is not to create an "over-unit" energy source as is implied with BLP, but to maintain a fusion reaction.
Today, the main fusion projects produce less energy in final output than the initial "put".
But this is absolutely not related to a physical impossibility but rather to a technical limitation.
In the case of BLP, the basic postulate is to extract energy by a kind of electrolysis whose final sum would be greater than the initial expenditure ...
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