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This idea was 'half baked' before it came here. The idea as title implies is on Fusion. This is how the idea goes: 1. Take Lithium Deuteride (LiD)2. Make it into a ring shape3. Coat it with a Tantalum (high melting point)4. Heat the whole thing to 1000 C (LiD melts)5. Since LiD is a salt, it conducts electricity when has melted6. Now take an Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator (EPFCG) or another EMP (electromagnetic pulse) device7. Put the LiD ring at the end of the EMP device8. Hit it with EMP. It will heat up very fast!9. The LiD fuel goes thru fusion and releases heat10. Collect the heat to generate power
xkuntay, Jan 17 2009
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Basically, it sounds like you are trying to make a hydrogen bomb. I'm guessing you intend to make the ring very tiny. Even then, collecting the energy might be a problem. I don't really know if it could work and I doubt that anyone else here does either.
How to collect the energy:
Imagine a chamber held at 212 degree F (boiling temp of H2O). This chamber is 100 x 100 x 100 ft and well insulated except the top. On the roof of the chamber there is a pool of DI boiling water at 1 atm. Let's see now what happens when the mini H2 bomb sets off:
Around the blast there are lithium walls, known to capture neutrons well, thus preventing damage to chamber walls. When blast takes place heat and energetic neutrons are disposed. The chamber gets hotter, from 212 F to say 300 F. The water on top of the chamber boils vigorously, creating a pressure. The steam is vented through a circular duct with a steam turbine.
Dwane Anderson, thanks for your comment. If this is not the right place, where do you advise me to take this idea? No academician seems to really care for it.