From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 07:31:50 MST
CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/4/02 18:56:22, dgc@cox.rr.com writes:
>
> >If the glow is black-body, then the bubble is heating to
> >at least 43,000 Kelvin. This is very close to hot enough for
> >classical thermonuclear fusion.
>
> ?? I thought fusion required megaKelvin. Certainly the
> Tokamaks need that. I don't think I'd want to be around
> a 100 MK blackbody.
The megakelvin experiments (hot fusion) are based on plasma containment.
The pressures of plasma are so low compared to that of the fluid and
sono-compression within the bubbles that you need far higher temps to
produce fusion at such low pressures.
Thermonuclear bombs never reach anywhere near as hot as those used in
the 'big science' plasma fusion devices simply because they rely far
more on high pressure (which also explains why they are far more
successful at producing over-unity energy levels than the plasma
experiments). Achieving fusion in a 'hot' plasma experiment is
essentially trying to produce fusion in circumstances similar to the
sun's corona, which is whispy thin but is heated to the millions of
degrees. Only thermonuclear weapons and apparently this sound based
bubble technique reproduce at some scale conditions similar to those
within the sun itself.
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