For some technical background, this is a small excerpt from the description of the Phoenix 2000 MaxFelaser system found on the Website.
"Thorium as a laser fuel is a natural Alpha & beta emitter and lases very easily. What makes the Phoenix 2000 MaxFelaser systems differs from “reactors” or other lasers is that it is an “EMC” Accelerator driven non-critical reaction stimulating thorium as a Alfa-beta emitter. In nuclear physics, an energy amplifier is a novel type of nuclear power reactor, a subcritical reactor, in which an EMC energetic field is used to stimulate a reaction, which in turn releases enough HEAT energy to flash a working fluid to high temp and presser driving a high speed turbine-generator set. This is the basic working principles of the MaxFelasers. The EMC particle accelerator in the MaxFelaser is an electro magnetic induction coil operating at high frequency to propel the Thorium fuel Matrix to high energy levels and to contain them. The MaxFelaser uses this quantum mechanical properties of an external magnetic field to excite the electrons, the electrons (particles) collide with other particles and are diffracted as light. While an electron is undergoing acceleration, it can absorb or radiate energy in the form of HEAT and photons. It can be annihilated by a collision with a positron, the electron's antiparticle, or an electron–positron pair can be produced from gamma ray photons with a combined energy at least equal to the energy at rest of the particles. (An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator.) The EMC is a hybrid combination linear and circular accelerator, leaving an energy profit for power generation. The concept has more recently been referred to as an accelerator-driven system ADS-EMC MaxFelaser based on Thorium presents a solution to the global energy crisis and could help ease political tension globally." Laser power generators are being developed and the US Air Forse is testing this generator. At this time, the 2.5 MW High speed generators have been built and are being tested by the United States Air Force USAF. The 2.5 MW unit is 1/10th the size of conventional generators at only 28 x 21 inches and 360 lbs.; a number of other sizes, 5Kw, 30Kw. 90Kw, 200Kw, 1.2 MW, have also been built and tested under a number of development programs; and larger units are being designed to meet the demands of the commercial power industry. Look at the hardware at: http://terralab.tripod.com/id14.html I am interested in how various alternative energy initiatives might hoodwink inverters. Opinions: Can a non profit consortium supported by the United States Department of the Interior front a SCAM? Also, the turbogenerator pictured here might be a fit for the Ni-H power systems. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:08:02 -0700 > (PDT): > Hi, > [snip] > > > >I found this link on the Cold Fusion Times website. > >What powers the laser that heats the thorium? Is this a parody? > >Harry > > > >http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/"A U.S. company says it > is getting closer to putting prototype electric cars on the road that will > be powered by the heavy-metal thorium. > >Thorium is a naturally occurring, slightly radioactive rare-earth element > discovered in 1828 by the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius, who named it > after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. It is found in small amounts in most > rocks and soils, where it is about three times more abundant than uranium." > > In order to get that much energy out of thorium, you have to fission it. > Now you > could do that with fast particles directly or by first converting it to > U233 > then fissioning it with slow neutrons. Since a laser is employed, and we > know > that lasers can be used as particle accelerators, my guess would be that > they > intend to accelerate protons with the laser and use them to fission the > Thorium > directly. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
