CrossFire Fusion Reactor , thoughts?

[Gerdih]

Found this on the internet searching about alternative fusion methods:

http://www.crossfirefusion.com

Anyone knows about it? What are your thoughts (from the energy point of view)?

 

[Urwumpe]

I quit the page in the moment I read, that fusors are "closer to fusion" than magnetic confinement systems. Thats completely opposite of the reality. The energy needed for inertial confinement fusion is much higher, because of the higher production of Bremsstrahlung. Not as far as I had read, the designer does not even mention such losses at all, which means that he happily ignored them in his fantasy world.

This is just an "illegal copy" of a Bussard Polywell fusor, if you compare the two designs. That fusors are the simplest way to produce fusion reactions is not new - fusors are used as neutron sources for decades because of that. They are just also extremely ineffective in terms of energy production, which is why nobody serious is today investigating them as way to produce more power than what you have to inject into them.

 

[DouglasMitchel]

I quit the page in the moment I read, that fusors are "closer to fusion" than magnetic confinement systems. Thats completely opposite of the reality. The energy needed for inertial confinement fusion is much higher, because of the higher production of Bremsstrahlung. Not as far as I had read, the designer does not even mention such losses at all, which means that he happily ignored them in his fantasy world.

This is just an "illegal copy" of a Bussard Polywell fusor, if you compare the two designs. That fusors are the simplest way to produce fusion reactions is not new - fusors are used as neutron sources for decades because of that. They are just also extremely ineffective in terms of energy production, which is why nobody serious is today investigating them as way to produce more power than what you have to inject into them.

I’m glad the CFF is completely opposite of the reality of magnetic confinement systems, because it can be an important breakthrough.
I’m not an expert in fusion reactors, but as far as I have read, the CFF is quite different from the Bussard Polywell fusor and other IEC designs, because it doesn’t have an inner grid, no recirculation of electrons, no "wiffleball" magnetic compression, and so on.
Reading a little more, I found some mention to the Bremsstrahlung radiation and how to compensate it to surpass the breakeven point, a very very impressive and innovative concept.
I think it is not an "illegal copy" because magnetic cusp technology has been used previously: "The magnetic cusps is a common technology among some plasma confinement devices: Magnetic well for plasma confinement (US patent: 4007392), Multicusp plasma containment apparatus - Limpaecher (US patent: 4233537), Plasma confining device (US patent: 4430290), Bussard Polywell (US patent: 4826646) and others."
In my opinion, the CFF concept is satisfactorily honest and unbiased. And from the energy point of view, it seems to have all conditions to achieve fusion with net energy gain in a cheaper way than the mainstream fusion reactors.