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Apparatus And Method For Sourcing Fusion Reaction Products
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210151206A1/en
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
2020-03-02 Assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
2020-03-02 Assigned to GOOGLE INC.
2020-12-07 Assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
2020-12-16 Assigned to UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[0002] This invention was made with government support under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The government has certain rights in this invention.
Abstract
An apparatus and method for sourcing nuclear fusion products uses an electrochemical loading process to load low-kinetic-energy (low-k) light element particles into a target electrode, which comprises a light-element-absorbing material (e.g., Palladium). An electrolyte solution containing the low-k light element particles is maintained in contact with a backside surface of the target electrode while a bias voltage is applied between the target electrode and an electrochemical anode, thereby causing low-k light element particles to diffuse from the backside surface to an opposing frontside surface of the target electrode. High-kinetic-energy (high-k) light element particles are directed against the frontside, thereby causing fusion reactions each time a high-k light element particle operably collides with a low-k light element particle disposed on the frontside surface. Fusion reaction rates are controlled by adjusting the bias voltage.
Enhanced Electron Screening Through Plasmon Oscillations US10566094B2
US10566094B2 - Enhanced electron screening through plasmon oscillations - Google Patents
Abstract
Enhanced Coulomb repulsion screening around light element nuclei is achieved by way of utilizing electromagnetic (EM) radiation to induce plasmon oscillations in target structures (e.g., nanoparticles) in a way that produces high density electron clouds in localized regions of the target structures, thereby generating charge density variations around light element atoms located in the localized regions. Each target structure includes an electrically conductive body including light elements (e.g., a metal hydride/deuteride/tritide) that is configured to undergo plasmon oscillations in response to the applied EM radiation. The induced oscillations causes free electrons to converge in the localized region, thereby producing transient high electron charge density levels that enhance Coulomb repulsion screening around light element (e.g., deuterium) atoms located in the localized regions. Various systems capable of implementing enhanced Coulomb repulsion screening are described, and various nanostructure compositions and configurations are disclosed that serve to further enhance fusion reaction rates.
Target Structure for Enhanced Electron Screening US10264661B2
US10264661B2 - Target structure for enhanced electron screening - Google Patents
Abstract
Enhanced Coulomb repulsion (electron) screening around light element nuclei is achieved by way of utilizing target structures (e.g., nanoparticles) that undergo plasmon oscillation when subjected to electromagnetic (EM) radiation, whereby transient high density electron clouds are produced in localized regions of the target structures during each plasmon oscillation cycle. Each target structure includes an integral body composed of an electrically conductive material that contains light element atoms (e.g., metal hydrides, metal deuterides or metal tritides). The integral body is also configured (i.e., shaped/sized) to undergo plasmon oscillations in response to the applied EM radiation such that the transient high density electron clouds are formed during each plasmon oscillation cycle, whereby brief but significantly elevated charge density variations are generated around light element (e.g., deuterium) atoms located in the localized regions, thereby enhancing Coulomb repulsion screening to enhance nuclear fusion reaction rates. Various target structure compositions and configurations are disclosed.
What should we do next ? - A relevant question from Matt Trevithick
In answer to that question it is best to look what Matt Trevithick and the Google CMNS Team have been doing for the past two or three years. The patents speak for themselves.
We now know the Google CMNS team includes the DoE at LLNL UC Berkeley and Thomas Schenkel; who is the Program Head for Fusion Science and Ion Beam Technology in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division.
Thomas Schenkel is the lead inventor listed on the latest Google/CMNS patent in which the DoE is listed as one of the assignes.
That said...
I'm a layman, yet I'd also recommend reading the NASA and Navy/Global Energy Corporation (GEC) patents 2007 up till/including the recent NASA GRC GEC Lattice Confinement Fusion patents. These groups are certainly building on each others works... in my opinion - as they should be.
gbgoblenote
I've looked... extensively. Endlessly.
I have yet to find any of these folks, in any articles written about their (fruitless?) research efforts,
or in any of the interviews they have given... no mention of the patents.
Never do they mention what is disclosed in the patents...
A deep study of these patents and a deep look at the skill set of Thomas Schenkel and his lab will give anyone an idea of something to do next.
I would suggest that the possibility of low temperature fission be given more attention within LENR.
Do these patents lend weight to your suggestion? I think they do.