ELETROFLUID COLLISIONAL ACCELERATOR AND FUSION REACTOR

• US 20090065714A1
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John P. Keady
• Original Assignee: John P. Keady
• Inventors: Keady, John P.
• Application Number:
  US11/948,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20090065714A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/503.100
• CPC Class Codes: G21B 1/15 Particle injectors for producing thermonuclear fusion reactions, e.g. pellet injectors
• CPC Class Codes: G21B 1/19 Targets for producing thermonuclear fusion reactions, e.g. pellets for irradiation by laser or charged particle beams
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 30/10 Nuclear fusion reactors

Abstract

At least one exemplary embodiment is directed toward accelerating charged hydrogenated fluid into collisions of sufficient energy to initiate at least partial fusion of the collisional hydrogenated fluid, where one of the products of the collision is a product including an element higher in the periodic tables than at least one of the colliding fluids, and where, optionally, the at least partial fusion heats a coolant loop which in turn generates electricity.

Claims

1. A method of fusion generation:

accelerating a first charged fluid mass to a first energy, wherein the first charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid;

accelerating a second charged fluid mass to a second energy, wherein the second charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid; and

colliding the first charged fluid mass with the second charged fluid mass, and wherein products of the collision includes fusion products.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first charged fluid mass has a charge opposite to the second charged fluid mass.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before the colliding step at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is neutralized.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is a mass in a charged fluid mist or stream.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is at least one of a sheath and a yoke of an aphron.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the yoke and sheath are differently charged.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

performing the colliding step in a reaction chamber and cooling the reaction chamber with a coolant heat transfer loop, wherein a fluid in the coolant heat transfer loop becomes a superheated fluid.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

directing the superheated fluid into an electricity generating turbine to generate electricity.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

condensing superheated fluid leaving the generating turbine; and

directing at least a first portion of the condensed fluid into a charged fluid generator, which generates a new charged fluid mass.

10. An apparatus for fusion comprising:

a first guiding section;

a second guiding section; and

a reaction chamber, wherein the first guiding section is configured to direct an accelerated first charged fluid mass into the reaction chamber, wherein the first charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid, wherein the second guiding section is configured to direct an accelerated second charged fluid mass into the reaction chamber, wherein the second charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid, and wherein the first charged fluid mass collides with the second charged fluid mass wherein the collision results in fusion products.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first charged mass has a charge opposite to the second charged mass.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is neutralized before colliding.

13. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is a mass in a charged fluid mist or stream.

14. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein at least one of the first charged fluid mass and the second charged fluid mass is at least one of a sheath and a yoke of an aphron.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the yoke and sheath are differently charged.

16. The apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a reaction chamber, wherein the colliding of the first and second charged fluid mass occur in the reaction chamber; and

a coolant heat transfer loop, wherein the reaction chamber is cooled by the coolant heat transfer loop, wherein a fluid in the coolant heat transfer loop becomes a superheated fluid.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, further comprising:

a generator system, wherein the superheated fluid is directed into generator system to generate electricity.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising:

a condensing region, wherein the superheated fluid leaving the generating turbine is condensed in the condensing region, wherein at least a first portion of the condensed fluid is directed into a charged fluid mass generator, which generates a new charged fluid mass.

19. A method of fusion generation:

accelerating a first charged fluid mass to a first energy, wherein the first charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid; and

colliding the first charged fluid mass with a second charged fluid mass, wherein the second charged fluid mass includes a hydrogenated fluid, and wherein products of the collision includes fusion products.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the first charged fluid mass is a charged fluid droplet.