Extreme laser pulses for possible development of boron fusion power reactors for clean and lasting energy

Abstract

Extreme laser pulses driving non-equilibrium processes in high density plasmas permit an increase of the fusion of hydrogen with the boron isotope 11 by nine orders of magnitude of the energy gains above the classical values. This is the result of initiating the reaction by non-thermal ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks by the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force of the laser field in addition to the avalanche reaction that has now been experimentally and theoretically manifested. The design of a very compact fusion power reactor is scheduled to produce then environmentally fully clean and inexhaustive generation of energy at profitably low costs. The reaction within a volume of cubic millimetres during a nanosecond can only be used for controlled power generation.

Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion

“…The research for low density plasmas for HB11 reactions (Hora et al, 2017a) is well under way, especially with the Tri-Alpha-Energy project (Rostoker & Binderbauer, 1996) of which the reverse magnetic field design is a modification of the cylindrical version of the Hirsch-Miley configuration of inertial electrostatic confinement IEC (see Section 2 of Hora et al, 2017a). With all these configurations, not any HB11 fusion was measured yet in these low-density plasmas, while the laser-experiments (Belyaev et al, 2005;Labaune et al, 2013;Picciotto et al, 2014) arrived at the super-high reaction gains above those from DT.…”

“…Single laser beam ignition for fusion energy is an innovation for alternative conditions differing from the usual spherical irradiation by many synchronized laser beams. These developments were initiated in 2014 (Hora et al, , 2015aLalousis et al, 2014) following the Patent Cooperation Treaty international patent with the priority of 23 March 2014 (Hora & Kirchoff, 2017) for the now progressing national phases (Hora et al, 2017a). These developments Hora & Kirchhoff, 2015a) followed step by step (Hora et al 2017b, c) for the first realistic option of an environmentally absolute clean reactor for the fusion of hydrogen with the boron isotope 11 (HB11) for low cost and sustainable largescale energy generation.…”

“…Against these facts of the impossibility of HB11, the aneutronic aspect attracted prominent experts to search for solutions (Hora et al, 2017a). This in principle could only be based on conditions without thermal equilibrium (Hora, 1988;Hora et al, 2012) and without using nonlinear effects (see clarifications by Feynman, Section 6.3 of Hora, 2016).…”

“…An example of studies of plasmas different from LTE thermal equilibrium plasmas was developed for the dusty plasmas (Fortov & Iakubov, 1998) with similar problems to the HB11 fusion (Hoffmann et al, 2017) or non-neutral plasmas (Davidson, 2016). Attempts are using low-density plasma (Hirsch, 1972;Rostoker et al, 1997;Miley & Murali, 2015) where however no fusion reactions were measured jet (Hora et al, 2017a). Following the principle (Hora, 1988;Hora et al, 2002) to use a non-thermal ignition of HB11 fusion by laser pulses led to measured high gain HB11 reactions opening the option that ultra-highly accelerated plasma blocks with conversion of laser energy directly into directed plasma block motion in the range of solid-state densities, the present achievement is a nine orders higher gain of fusion energy than classical measured (Eliezer et al, 2016).…”