Piezo-nuclear Fusion

Piezo-nuclear Fusion is a type of Cold Fusion that uses a specially designed cathode immersed in a deuterium enriched water bath. When an electric current is run through the water bath, the water is chemically split into hydrogen/deuterium and oxygen. The deuterium, gathers on and around the cathode where it is compressed into fusing. Piezo-nuclear Fusion is a prototype technology that underlies later developments in Fusion+ technology.

Description (Specifications)

Piezo-nuclear Fusion is Cold fusion process (the device rarely exceeds 50°C and produces little or no radiation) that produces power from excess heat by means of a thermocouple in a manner similar to a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator. There is no bottom limit to the size of this device. It is light weight, since it does not need heavy shielding, it is not dangerous, and it can run off of water without much preliminary fuss. The limitation of the technology is the ability to construct the cathode for prime fusion generation and its longevity.

History & Background (Dossier)

At lower technology levels the power levels available are limited by the confinement chamber and electromagnetic field forces, which as the technology advances are able to increase the power output for a certain volume, and reduce the minimum size of the reaction confinement chamber. Fusion processes that have been used historically throughout Charted Space at one time or another by various cultures include:

Thermonuclear & Inertial Confinement Fusion

• Deuterium Fusion (D-D) (Primarily used in Fusion pre-burners for Tritium (₁H³) or Helion (₂He³) production)
• Standard deuterium-cycle Thermonuclear Reactor (Deuterium-Tritium Fusion) (D-T)
• Light-Helium Reactor (Aneutronic Deuterium-Helion Fusion) (D-He³) - Proton-plasma EMF current induction
• Deuterium-Lithium Reactor (Aneutronic Deuterium-Lithium Fusion) (D-Li⁶) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction

Gravitic & Damper-mediated Compression Reactions

• Experimental Proton-Proton Cycle Fusion (p-p)
• Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle Catalyzed Proton Fusion (CNO-Cycle)
• Proton-Lithium Reactor (Aneutronic proton-Lithium Cycle Fusion (⁷Li-p) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction
• Proton-Boron Reactor (Aneutronic Boron-proton Cycle Fusion (¹¹B-p) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction
• Damper-mediated Muon-catalyzed Cold Fusion Reactor (μ_/gNF)

Fusion-Plus Technologies

• Piezo-nuclear Fusion Module (PNF-Cell) ("Cold Fusion")
• Fusion-Plus Module (F+Cell) ("Cold Fusion")
• Rapid-Overclock Damper-mediated Proton-cycle Fusion (P-Plant)
• Standard Damper-mediated Proton-cycle Fusion Facility (F-Plant)

PNF Development

Basic Piezo-nuclear Fusion power modules (PNF) led to later prototype portable Fusion Plus module technologies ("PNF+"). The core of these early power systems was a Piezo-nuclear fusion cell, with the fusion cathode also serving as the power transformer. This allowed for a more efficient cell than the normal thermocouple design, and kept the minimum size of the early PNF+/Fusion Plus cell prototypes remarkably small. True Fusion+ developed with the utilization of micro-gravitic compression and the later addition of micro-damper-mediation technologies, thus dispensing with necessity for the cathode set-up.

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This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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