[NewCandle] New research on D2 fusion with Marx Generator

[Jones Beene]

I followed Winterberg's work for many years. He has been around for a long time with very little recognition from the mainstream. Most of his work was in German Journals like Zeitschrift . I learned to read a little German 25 years ago, just to try to understand early Winterberg. Too bad that stuff is not online.

If he had been given adequate funding, he probably would have us in the affordable hot fusion ICF age already, at a fraction of the cost of the new Livermore boondoggle.

If you are going to use nuclear, with all of its downside - then it is no more nor less toxic to explode small "bombs" of the stuff than to burn it in a reactor - and it is a heck of a lot safer, since there can be no runaway chain reaction in ICF. And it is potential cheaper, if you have robotics, as we do now - since ICF is a natural breeder of fissile fuel. 100% burnup is possible.

Winterberg must be ancient by now.

Jones




----- Original Message ----
> From: Keith Nagel 

> Hi All,
> 
> Just noticed this story, quite interesting but lacking detail.
> 
> http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5045&zoneid=1
> 4
> 
> A billion volt Marx Generator would not be something one could construct
> in the garage, but arguably somewhat easier than the lasers typically
> considered for fusion work.
> 
> The talk in question is listed here.
> 
> http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/sec353/aspw2008/Schedule.html
> 
> "Pure Nuclear Fusion Bomb Propulsion," F. Winterberg (U. of Nevada, Reno)
> 
> and the published paper is here.
> 
> http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0803/0803.3636.pdf
> 
> Yet no mention of the Marx generator idea is contained therein. ???
> 
> K.
> 
> 
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