Oil Price – Will 2012 be the Year of Nuclear Fusion?
Oil Price – Will 2012 be the Year of Nuclear Fusion?
By Brian Westenhaus | 05 January 2012 – 23:24
The third leading technology for 2012 would be fusion. While commercial units are not in the offing for the year there is a good prospect that Eric Lerner’s Focus Fusion theory could show a practical method of the achievement. So far the team at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics has tracked right up the theory proving the preamble tests support that the completion would result in net power out.
Focus Fusion is just one. The Robert Bussard theory of developing the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) method being taken forward by EMC2 Fusion Development Corporation, if past half way on the latest scale test regime. At the end of October 2011, the WB-8 device had generated over 500 high power plasma shots. EMC2 is conducting tests on Wiffle-Ball plasma scaling law on plasma heating and confinement.
The WB-8, rather affectionately called the Wiffle-Ball, builds on previous concept-demonstration bench top versions of plasma wiffle balls. The eighth generation covers research, analysis, development, and testing to validate the basic physics of the advanced gaseous electrostatic energy concept. The question, “Does it Work?” seems to be answered as this generation’s stated purpose is to provide the U.S. Navy, the granting and funding agency, with data for potential applications of advanced gaseous electrostatic energy. The short-range goal is to demonstrate a fusion plasma confinement system for shore and shipboard applications.
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