-----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com > I'm somewhat surprised that no one tries Lanthanum alloys, since these are used for Hydrogen storage, implying high loading.
Hi Robin, Yes, a few of the lanthanides, particularly cerium, have potential for high loading and reasonable cost. All it takes to try them is adequate funding :) Here is something close (from an old article) - to what I had in mind for a new kind of ICF, using macroscopic particles of loaded deuterium, travelling on a magnetic wave - instead of particle beams or laser beams as the driver. This is the original Winterberg concept: http://iopscience.iop.org/0032-1028/10/1/306;jsessionid=5440FE3BA8F5056F9D8D 18FDF0B13A1C.c3 ... But to be updated by substituting the loaded Ahern powder for both the projectile and the target (or two intersecting 50 micron projectiles). BTW - the powder is magnetic. It would be interesting to estimate the revised parameters, under the assumption of high internal pressuriztion - in both the projectile and the target. Of course, overpotential is not 'real' pressurization, but does it operate the same way? Quien sabe? IOW - could one reduce a required 10 km magnetic wave accelerator to a few meters if the final impact started out with both participating particles having 'virtual' deuterium pressurization of say - 10 kilobar? Jones
