Clean energy from Deuterium Tritium

Will a simple device like this works?

sounds like a lot of guessing and not a lot of info on how much power needs to be put in to get energy out.

I'm betting the energy input is enormous.

The details on how the energy is to be harnessed is vague as well.
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Here is an example of the Rodin-wound coils I mentioned before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqaI35NCYFs

They actually do over-unity accumulate back EMF and make it available for voltage potential...

I have a couple built myself and have noticed some other interesting signal effects.

Short answer yes, I agree a simple device will work. I could see something like this or the other feeding an armature somehow to boost standard turbine generator outputs safely. But I am severely extrapolating. :) Guilty.
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Electrons started spinning, electrons are still spinning and electrons will be spinning tomorrow to the best of our knowledge therefore either change in acceleration is persistent or friction is fractally less than understood.

If it is putting out more energy than it is consuming it is in effect a perpetual motion machine which I suspect breaks a few laws of physics unless some form of mass is being converted into energy.
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Bob DeWoody

If it is putting out more energy than it is consuming it is in effect a perpetual motion machine which I suspect breaks a few laws of physics unless some form of mass is being converted into energy.

If it is putting out more energy than it is consuming it is in effect a perpetual motion machine which I suspect breaks a few laws of physics unless some form of mass is being converted into energy.

Isn't the purpose of this to convert matter to energy?

From my understanding of physics there are two ways to produce useable electric power. One is to convert one form of energy to another, allowing that there will be losses in the process. You can convert heat energy, kinetic energy, light energy, chemical and probably others to electricity directly, or you can burn fuel to create steam to generate electricity and finally you can use either nuclear fission or fusion to convert atoms which in the process generates heat which can then be converted to electricity but in all cases the energy in is at least slightly greater than the energy out.

Solar panels convert solar energy to electricity directly but the efficiency is still rather low and only works while the solar panel is exposed to sunlight.

Hydro-electric powerplants need the kinetic energy potential of falling water to spin turbines which then generate electricity.

Coal or oil or natural gas can be burned to generate heat to make steam which can then be used to spin a turbine which then produces electricity.

Nuclear fission is another way to heat the water as is fusion.

No one has demonstrated a way to hook up a power cable to a cylinder of heavy water and get back more power than was input.
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Bob DeWoody

Than you Johnny, I was trying to keep my explanation as simple as possible.
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Bob DeWoody

Both fusion and fission reactors exploit the Einstein found law energy=rest mass times c squared.
Tullio
And, incidentally, nuclear fusion reactors do not produce directly heat. They produce neutrons of 14 Mev energy, which must be used to heat some water to produce vapor which powers the turbines, a very poor step subject to the laws of thermodynamic (Carnot cycle0.
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Yes, Nuclear power is basically just a steam turbine engine run from radiation.
This isn't such a great technical breakthrough in technology since we are still boiling water to spin a turbine
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There was a cartoon in "Nuclear engineering international" showing two engineers watching the building of a Boiling Water Reactor and saying: there must be a simpler way of boiling water! The same could be said today of ITER at Cadarache which has cost so far 15 Billions euros and shall cost 10 more without producing a single watt of electricity, since it is just a "proof of concept" machine.Three other fusion experiments are going on in the USA, DIII-D in San Diego, Alcator C-Mod at MIT and NSTX at Princeton. Total 2012 funding 148 millions US dollars. Is it worth, considering that USA also supports ITER?
Tullio
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I used to get that magazine at Mondadori, I no longer receive it. Since it published the output of all nuclear reactors in the world in the preceding 12 months, I noticed that the PWR at Trino Vercellese, a Westinghouse design, was not producing any power for three years, I understood that something must have happene there.I was right, but nobody in Italy wrote a line about it. Later, one night at Manarola,Cinque Terre, a retired engineer who had been the safety officer at Trino, befora a bottle of Sciacchetrà wine, told me the whole story. I could write a book about it. Loss of coolant accident, like Three Miles Island.
Tullio
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I would think that we don't need fusion reactors. We should focus on getting breeder reactors right. Plutonium is the way to go.

I would think that we don't need fusion reactors. We should focus on getting breeder reactors right. Plutonium is the way to go.

On the NYTimes of August 10 I've read that a 82 years old Catholic nun, Sister Megan Rice, has been arrested on the grounds of the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for cutting the fence around it and hanging banners quoting the Bible motto "Beat swords into plowshares".
Her trial will be held in October and, along with two others persons belonging to an antinuclear group, she risks up to 16 years in prison. Brava Megan.
Tullio
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