Posts by Ahlfors

and, obviously, patents ...

"... Lowering the Coulomb barrier for nuclear fusion."

[p. 371]

Exploding wires are a powerful means to get high temperatures. However,

as pointed out by LOCHTE-HOLTGREVEN high temperatures are to be

expected only during extremely short time (in the nanosecond range), because

after a few microseconds the adiabatic expansion cools the plasma. Nevertheless,

according the author, the use of liquid threads (heavy liquid ammonia + Li)

for nuclear fusion looks possible if fast and high power discharges are used.

Another suggestion is the use of a composite wire with ah U²³⁵ core and an

outer shell Li⁶D, Li⁶T [2]. Here again a considerable energy is needed. This

device actually acts as a small heterogeneous reactor and would work under

fusion-fission conditions. Incidentally, the use of composite U²³⁵-D-T

homogeneous pellets to produce fusion-fission reactions has been considered

by POZWOLSKI [3], but here the heating process is the impact of pellets acceler-

ated to ultra high velocities (e.g. 100 km/s). In principle such velocities could

be reached through electrostatic acceleration; another means, probably easier,

is to use exploding wire in an appropriate geometry, to be discussed in what

follows.

[Bright hint for Larry [and NASA]]

Der Energietransport in das Innere von elektrisch aufgeheizten, explodierenden duennen Draehten wird durch die m = O-MHD-Instabilitaet begrenzt. Durch aeussere magnetische Felder oder durch hohe elektrische Potentiale an den Drahtenden kann das Einsetzen dieser Instabilitaet hinausgezoegert werden. So lassen sich lokal sehr hohe Temperaturen erzeugen. Bei Teilchendichten von mehr als 10²³ cm³ wurden bei den Kieler Versuchen d,d Reaktionen beobachtet, wenn man stark deuteriumhaltige Fluessigkeitsfaeden explodieren lies. Da es moeglich ist, einen explodierenden Fluessigkeitsfaden innerhalb von Millisekunden zu ersetzen, ist im Prinzip der Weg fuer eine periodisch arbeitende Maschine frei. Die Entwickung der Instabilitaet scheint dabei fuer den lokalen Anstieg von Druck und Temperatur und die dabei ausgeloesten Kernreaktionen von Bedeutung zu sein.

Atomkernenergie 28 (3),1976 p. 150-154

Duncan/McKubre recycled flop

Hystorical

Star Wars

"EXPÉRIENCES PRÉLIMINAIRES SUR LES RADIOACTIVITÉS CONSÉCUTIVES A L’EXPLOSION DE FILS CONTENANT DU DEUTÉRIUM"

Par MM. M. BONPAS, A. ERTAUD, J. P. LEGRAND et R. MEUNIER

"Ueber explodierende Fluessigkeitsstrahlen sowie ueber eine periodisch arbeitende Maschine zur Erzeugung sehr hoher Temperaturen"

H. JAEGER und W. LOCHTE-HOLTGREVEN

"NEUTRON EMISSION OBSERVED DURING THE ELECTRICALEXPLOSION OF DEUTERATED LIQUIDS OF METALLIC CONDUCTIVITY"

U. FISCHER, H. JAGER and W. LOCHTE-HOLTGREVEN

"Research on Nuclear Reactions in Exploding (Li + LiD) Wires"

Walter Lochte-Holtgreven, Kiel University

Hydride formation and dynamic phase changes during template-assisted Pd electrodeposition

Computational unravelling of cathodic hydride formation on palladium surfaces

This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement HERMES

No 952184

Computational unravelling of cathodic hydride formation on palladium surfaces

This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement HERMES

No 952184

Controlling the Reactivity and Interactions between Hydrogen and Palladium Nanoparticles via Management of the Particle Diameter

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952184 (the HERMES project).

Controlling the Reactivity and Interactions between Hydrogen and Palladium Nanoparticles via Management of the Particle Diameter

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952184 (the HERMES project).

Interactions between Hydrogen and Palladium Nanoparticles: Resolving Adsorption and Absorption Contributions

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952184 (HERMES project).

High-energy electron measurements with thin Si detectors

Acknowledgments:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951974

High-energy electron measurements with thin Si detectors

Acknowledgments:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951974

The paper

Use heavy water

Yang-Koldamasov device revisited [2019]

"A sample of unadditized diesel fuel was passed through an optically accessible model diesel injector return valve, which consisted of two successive nozzles connected to an intermediate fuel gallery. The first nozzle was cylindrical, while the second nozzle was stepped. The fuel was observed to produce a multi-phase, cavitating flow and a luminous blue-violet emission at the entrance to the second nozzle hole. The flow in the upstream intermediate fuel gallery and the first nozzle hole remained single-phase. Spectral analysis of the luminous emission revealed a spectrum with thermal features containing broad spectral lines and peaks at 358, 389, 405, 412, 430 and 475 nm, suggesting that the emission was dominated by π*→π transitions in the alkylated mono-, di-, and tri-aromatics, with additional spectral contributions from CH, C2, C3 and hydrogen (H)."