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- 1. Transforming the Global Energy Landscape with Focus Fusion Derek Shannon Director of Business Development Lawrenceville Plasma Physics | http://LPPhysics.com | March 2011
- 2. Novel approach Uses natural process to concentrate energy and achieve high density Uses instabilities, does not fight them US Patent #7,482,607: “Method and apparatus for producing x-rays, ion beams and nuclear fusion energy”
- 3. Goal product: 5 MWe Focus Fusion generator Lower projected cost than any other energy tech
- 5. Why pB11—Hydrogen-Boron? 5MW generator uses 5kg/yr All charged particles direct conversion to electricity large reduction in costs abundant fuel safe, NO radioactive waste NO runaway reaction BUT: Requires > 100 keV (1 billion degrees)
- 7. The pB11 Race Us! Energy breakthrough! Them!
- 8. 2011 Outlook Conclude experiments with deuterium Mix nitrogen with deuterium at 35 kV Increase to 40, 45 kV Incrementally shorten electrodes 14 to 10 then 7cm Incorporate heating elements, pump protection for hydrogen-boron fuel Add hydrogen-boron in increasing concentrations to background gas Demonstrate scientific feasibility of net energy with pure hydrogen-boron
- 9. Real cost of Focus Fusion:Making it happen Conclude feasibility study in 2011: $890,000 2-4 yr development of commercial prototype: $20-30M Distribution channel: Non-exclusive licensing to utilities, energy agencies, & manufacturing partners
- 10. The Team Eric Lerner – President & lead scientist S. KrupakarMurali – Senior scientist Aaron Blake – CFO Derek Shannon – Business development
Editor's Notes
- Imagine a world using 10 times the energy we’re using now, at one tenth the price we’re paying now, with 0 times the current pollution.
- Solar energy is fusion – But why let the sun have all the fun? We’re a pocket full of sunshine yet, but we will put a tiny, superclean sun – a focus fusion generator in your garage. We’re not using an approach as big as the Moon landing, taking MULTIPLE decades and billinos of dollars. We’re taking a shortcut using a device called the dense plasma focus, to develop focus fusion, where we this by threading a bolt of lightning
- Well, it takes train after train moving mountains of coal, and let’s us power a 5MW generator with five kilograms—For a year. Abundant like Borax with Ronald Reagan leading the 20-mule team across death valley. But we’re going to unleash it’s fusion power to make a better life for the Earth.
- $1M and our tech works, Greater good than all of the Gates Foundation billions, and you beat Gates, Paul Allen, and VinodKhosla to create a Star Trek world, or where you don’t have to be Tony Stark to be empowered