Erich?
Just out of curiousity, how much boron would we need to seed a 1000 MW fusor?
http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu/news/cl...9801/monk.html
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Henk Monkhorst's latest research, published in a recent Science article, seems almost too good to be true. Monkhorst and Norman Rostoker (UC-Irvine), have theorized a fusion reactor that could efficiently provide electricity at a fraction of current costs. The fuels for his reactor are abundant, cheap and environmentally benign: hydrogen and boron-11. Hydrogen is easily attainable (using electrolysis) from ocean water, and boron deposits are plentiful (for example: 140 million tons in California, 500 million in Turkey). A 100 mega-watt power plant (10-15 of which would equal the total power generated by GRU) would burn only 200 grams of boron a day, as opposed to the over 700 tons of coal needed to power a similarly sized coal-burning plant. Better yet, the reactor emits no radiation; in fact, it has no adverse by-products at all. In addition, because the reactor is safe and clean, it would be possible to build small "neighborhood" power plants right in the area where the power is to be consumed, eliminating wasteful long distance electricity transport.
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Assuming that those boron numbers were optimistic at the time, and that the numbers are closer to 500-750 grams a day for a 100 MW fusor; has Clint and Co. come close to building a successful pilot model? Has the electrode problem been solved?
Is this a good investment?(Deployment in 5-10 years?)
Best wishes;
