Abstract: A deuterium-fueled heat source that utilizes solid state electrolysis device(s) that deposit D atoms onto, and remove D atoms from, a metal reactor plate containing deuterium diffusion-impeding inclusions.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating thermonuclear microexplosions includes a first pulsed high-voltage source configured for transmission of a first high-voltage pulse at a first high current. A second pulsed high voltage source is configured for transmission of a second high-voltage pulse at a potential higher than that of the first high-voltage pulse at a second high current having a magnitude less than that of the first high current. An inner transmission line is in electrical contact with the first pulsed high-voltage source, the inner line having a tapered end. An outer transmission line is disposed over the inner line and in electrical contact with the first pulsed high-voltage source. A deuterium-tritium mixture is disposed between the inner transmission line and the outer transmission line, the deuterium-tritium mixture having a tapered end spaced apart from the tapered end of said inner transmission line.

Abstract: A spherical neutron generator is formed with a small spherical target and a spherical shell RF-driven plasma ion source surrounding the target. A deuterium (or deuterium and tritium) ion plasma is produced by RF excitation in the plasma ion source using an RF antenna. The plasma generation region is a spherical shell between an outer chamber and an inner extraction electrode. A spherical neutron generating target is at the center of the chamber and is biased negatively with respect to the extraction electrode which contains many holes. Ions passing through the holes in the extraction electrode are focused onto the target which produces neutrons by D-D or D-T reactions.

Abstract: A nuclear fusion reactor comprising a spherical reaction chamber with a mirrored interior surface filled with a nuclear fusible and laser active gaseous medium such as deuterium. Using rapid gaseous expansion caused by a focused pulsed laser source and/or timed oscillations from piezoelectric transducer, a harmonic spherical acoustic wave pattern centered within the reaction chamber is created. This wave pattern is created near a desired frequency and centered in the sphere. The wave pattern contains a central gaseous ball of high-density, pressure, and temperature that causes ionization and radiation to occur. This radiation causes the mirrored chamber to activate a spherical laser effect focused on the high pressure plasma at the center of the reaction chamber. This spherical laser pulse acting on high pressure high-density of the central standing wave produces ignition of the gas and fusion.

Abstract: My controlled nuclear fusion process is that when two Deuterium atoms are directed through two valves into an area an inch away from the valves to where solar energy coming from the two eight inch diameter parabolic mirrors combine producing a temperature of 27,000,000 degrees F. or more, the electrons then leave the atoms and the remaining Deuterium ions then bump into one another and fuse producing small bits of energy Some remain where the fusion occurs, while others go off in different directions. Some immediately are absorbed by the water in the 6′ cube. Other pieces are absorbed further away, as far as 2½ feet before being absorbed by water.

Abstract: An apparatus consisting of essentially tanks, valves, solenoid injector valves, regulators, and other mechanical, electrical, and electronic components, and computer software arranged in such a manner to store catalyst substances and to deliver these substances in predetermined amounts and pressures to a fusion reactor. The catalyst substances include methane, CH4, hydrocarbons, carbonaceous substances, and other chemicals with the required qualities of catalyzing fusion reactions. These qualities include facilitating, accelerating and increasing the efficiency of fusion reactions. Additionally, this also includes the ability to decrease the intensity of the driving potentials required for proper operation of fusion reactions. These chemicals also must be able to exist in a gaseous or plasma state under the operational conditions of fusion reactors.

Abstract: The patent applied for in this application pertains to the production of neutrons by the excitation of hydrogen atom valence electrons to the quantum state of a neutron, the synchronization of the quantity and rate of the production of those neutrons in order to synchronize their half-life decays for use in a fusion reaction, the use of phase alignment of the particle field oscillations to precipitate nuclear binding in a fusion reaction, and the direct conversion of the energy from this process into electricity, along with the synthesis of other desired elements and decontamination of hazardous radioactive elements.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring contact current includes data acquisition circuitry with at least two sensor contacts to measure the voltage drop across an animal or human body. A portable data processing unit is connected to the data acquisition circuitry to process the voltage data to produce current flow data.

Abstract: A method of controlling a temperature of nonthermal nuclear fusion fuel, wherein materials of low boiling point are added as a coolant to a nonthermal nuclear fusion fuel mixed with liquid lithium (02), or nuclear fusion materials fused into liquid lithium (02), and rapid elevation in temperature of a local nonthermal fusion reaction region is suppressed by a heat vaporization of the materials of low boiling point so as to enhance the nonthermal nuclear fusion reaction. The materials of low boiling point are sodium or potassium.

Abstract: An experimental machine (1) for producing low-temperature nuclear fusion reactions, wherein an ion source (3) feeds a flux of positive deuterium ions to a reaction chamber (2) housing a target (5) defined by active elements (30, 31) and by an aggregate of metal sulfate hydrated with heavy water; a pumping assembly (4) being provided to maintain a vacuum in the reaction chamber (2); and the reaction chamber (2) having an accelerating device (10) for accelerating the positive deuterium ions, and which generates an electric field inside the reaction chamber (2) to convey and accelerate the deuterium ions against the active element of the target (5) in such a manner as to initiate nuclear fusion reactions between the incident deuterium ions and some of the atoms of the active element.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a high pressure zone that can initiate a fusion reaction are provided by the present invention. In accordance with the preferred embodiments, a superheated phase bubble is imploded in a reaction chamber to produce a high pressure region and initiate the fusion reaction. The reaction chamber has sloped edges that focus opposing shock waves created by the imploding phase bubble toward a high pressure reacting region. The liquid is filled with deuterium, tritium, uranium, unstable isotopes, and/or other materials that are susceptible to nuclear or chemical reactions at high pressures. The resulting reactions can be used for countless applications.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include a non-metal, a hydrogen absorbing metal, a selected isotope to be exposed to ions of hydrogen or ions of isotopes of hydrogen, and a hydrogen source. The hydrogen source can be an electrolytic solution, a gas or plasma. In some embodiments the hydrogen absorbing metal covers the non-metal to form a microsphere. The hydrogen absorbing metal is positioned to contact the hydrogen source. Further, the hydrogen absorbing metal can be made of multiple layers of dissimilar metals with different Fermi energy levels. The multiple layers of metals have interfaces where swimming electron layers exist. Interfaces between the non-metal, hydrogen absorbing metal, and the hydrogen source also exist with swimming electron layers. The selected isotope is placed in these regions of swimming electron layers to be exposed to the ions of hydrogen and its isotopes from the hydrogen source.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for electrolyzing water for enhanced production of oxygen, hydrogen and heat by the steps of (i) providing an electrochemical cell comprising an isotopic hydrogen storage cathode, an electrically conductive anode and an ionically conducting electrolyte comprising water, and (ii) impressing a repeating sequence of voltages across the cathode and anode comprised of at least two cell voltage regimes, a first cell voltage regime consisting of a voltage sufficient to enhance cathodic absorption of hydrogen, and a second cell voltage regime consisting of at least one voltage pulse which is at least two times the voltage of the first cell voltage regime for a total duration no greater than 0.10 seconds.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for generating recoilless nonthermal nuclear fusion reaction, wherein deuterium ions accelerated by pulsed gas discharge plasma are implanted onto a surface of an electrode (2) formed of liquid lithium (9), and the momentum to be transferred to the lithium atoms coming into collision with the deuterium atoms is carried out by neutrons, so that the lithium atoms are prevented from being recoiled, and the recoilless nonthermal nuclear fusion reaction is enhanced without reducing a cohesion acting between atoms in the liquid lithium (9).

Abstract: A method of generating a nuclear reaction from a gas stream containing water which involves heating a gas stream at a rapid rate sufficient to dissociate the water into hydrogen and oxygen and to transform hydrogen ions into protons which produce nuclear reactions, including nuclear fusion. Once the reaction state is reached, no additional heat needs to be inputted into the reaction system. The resulting nuclear reaction can be used to produce heat for buildings, heat that can be used to generate electricity, and heat that can be used for other purposes.

Abstract: This Patent Application is a 10-year culmination of my efforts to create an interstellar transport vehicle engine, and have finally arrived at providing a new means of transportation for distances outside our known solar system. This vehicle creates matter on its own providing a foothold in space by ejecting antimatter for propulsion. However, I have gone farther than that by creating an engine that annihilates the antimatter with another generated matter for the safety of our human environment and to maximize matter-antimatter particle reactions for greater propulsion in space. With the Catalasan Nuclear Fusion Reactor coupled with two Electro-Nucleo Genesoids, this engine can travel to the far reaches of interstellar space.

Abstract: A method of producing cold nuclear fusion and a method of preparing a fusion-promoting material for producing cold nuclear fusion are disclosed. The method of producing fusion includes selecting a fusion-promoting material, hydriding the fusion-promoting material with a source of isotopic hydrogen, and establishing a non-equilibrium condition in the fusion-promoting material. The method of producing fusion may include cleaning the fusion-promoting material. The method of producing fusion may also include heat-treating the fusion-promoting material. The method of preparing a fusion-promoting material for producing fusion includes selecting a fusion-promoting material and hydriding the fusion-promoting material with a source of isotopic hydrogen. The method of preparing a fusion-promoting material for producing fusion may include cleaning the fusion-promoting material. The method of preparing a fusion-promoting material for producing fusion may also include heat-treating the fusion-promoting material.

Abstract: This invention is a reactor and system with a method for containing and controlling a deuterium nuclear fusion reaction in a palladium host metal lattice, now generally referred to as ‘solid state fusion’. The reactor is designed for high temperature operation at moderate deuterium gas pressures and is operable over a temperature range of 400° C. to more than 1400° C. The solid state fusion reaction is enabled and controlled by providing specific combinations of reactor temperatures and deuterium gas pressures. The invention is capable of generating heat densities that are suitable for commercial applications. The highest heat densities are produced at higher temperatures and moderate pressures where the system is most efficient and cost effective.

Abstract: A system and method for generating electrical energy utilizing nuclear fusion comprised of a containment device, a quantity of plasma with fusible substances in the containment device, the containment device and its contents being adapted for repeated cycle bursts of fusion reactions in response to high energy electronic pulses. The fusion containment device is mounted within a chamber containing a body of fluid such that thermal heat energy originating from the fusion reactions is gathered into the fluid body. The heat energy stored in the fluid body may then be cycled to generate electrical energy. A portion of the generated electrical energy is returned to sustain operation of the nuclear fusion system, and the remaining electrical energy which is not returned to sustain the system is available for application as useful energy.

Abstract: A compound plasma configuration can be formed from a device having pins, and an annular electrode surrounding the pins. A cylindrical conductor is electrically connected to, and coaxial with, the annular electrode, and a helical conductor coaxial with the cylindrical conductor. The helical conductor is composed of wires, each wire electrically connected to each pin. The annular electrode and the pins are disposed in the same direction away from the interior of the conducting cylinder.

Abstract: A device and a method for performing cavitation energy generation includes a reaction vessel or volume containing a deuterium rich or other hydrogen isotope material along with a metal having certain lattice structures that will accept hydrogen or hydrogen isotope atoms within the lattice framework of the metal for either transient time periods or permanently. In order to provide atomic hydrogen or atomic hydrogen isotopes to the lattice structure and further to bring the various hydrogen atoms into close proximity so high energy reactions may occur, a sonicator provides high energy sound waves to the relatively incompressible liquid containing liquid deuteriumoxide or heavy water and other deuterium containing liquids and also dissolved deuterium or other hydrogen isotopes and/or noble gases. The sonicator causes cavitation bubbles to form adjacent to the metal utilized in the device.

Abstract: The present invention produces nuclide transmutation using a relatively small-scale device. The device 10 that produces nuclide transmutation comprises a structure body 11 that is substantially plate shaped and made of palladium (Pd) or palladium alloy, or another metal that absorbs hydrogen (for example, Ti) or an alloy thereof, and a material 14 that undergoes nuclide transmutation laminated on one surface 11A among the two surfaces of this structure body 11. The one surface 11A side of the structure body 11, for example, is made a region in which the pressure of the deuterium is high due to pressure or electrolysis and the like, and the other surface 11B side, for example, is a region in which the pressure of the deuterium is low due to vacuum exhausting and the like, and thereby, a flow of deuterium in the structure body 11 is produced, and nuclide transmutation is carried out by a reaction between the deuterium and the material 14 that undergoes nuclide transmutation.

Abstract: A monolithically integrated device. The monolithically integrated device provides advantages over conventional systems in reducing dissipation of hydrogen and its isotopes from sources of same to potentially increase absorption of hydrogen and its isotopes by absorbing materials. In some embodiments, the monolithically integrated device includes a first structure of a first material in solid form configured to absorb hydrogen. Further included is a second structure of a second material in solid form configured to release hydrogen when it reaches a temperature higher than a prefixed temperature. Both the first and second structures are superposed to a substrate and are in contact, at least partly, with one another. Additionally, a third structure of a third material in solid form is included to generate thermal energy when it is submitted to the passage of electric current and is so placed as to be thermally coupled at least to said second structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes and systems involving loading, such as palladium internally filling [“loading”] with deuterons. The system includes a novel cathode able to vibrate at a natural frequency, means to drive said frequency, and means to monitor said frequency, means to relate frequency changes to changes in the cathodic mass which herald loading. In one configuration said means to vibrate said cathode occurs by an applied external magnetic field intensity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus to increase the loading of isotopic fuels in a metal, such as hydrogen within palladium. The method and apparatus uses an electrical system with anode and cathode, each composed of the same metal with the electrochemical anodic sacrifice of the anode composed of said metal, and an electrolyte containing said metal as an ion and containing said isotopic fuel, thereby codepositing said fuel and said metal ions upon the cathode to increase the loading. In one configuration the anode has a cruciform shape. In the preferred embodiment, means are provided for coaxial loading from a concentric outer cathode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems to control reactions involving isotopic fuels within a material, such as hydrogen within palladium.

Abstract: After much experimentation, I have developed, a new, cost-effective, process for commercial-scale production of power by catalytic fusion of D2 gas, under moderate conditions of temperature and pressure. This process can be scaled up to any desired size, and can employ a variety of “hydrogenation” catalysts, both precious metal, and non-precious metal. Briefly, the process comprises absorbing D2 gas in or on the selected catalyst, then bringing the temperature into the range of very roughly 150° to 250° C., and then degassing the catalyst bed under reduced pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for the generation of thermal energy includes: a) a first quantity in solid form of a first material suitable to absorb hydrogen with ensuing generation of thermal energy; b) a second quantity in solid form of a second material suitable to release hydrogen at a temperature higher than a prefixed temperature, at least partly in contact with said first quantity; and c) a third quantity in solid form of a third material, suitable for the generation of thermal energy when it is submitted to the passage of electric current, so located as to be thermally coupled with said second quantity.

Abstract: The present invention to control loaded isotopic fuel within a material uses a two-stage method which involves a first stage of electrode loading, and then, a second stage of sudden rapid (“catastrophic”) flow of hydrogen within the metal. In one configuration means are provided to minimize the degradation of the loaded material. The apparatus includes a novel cathode, novel anode, and heat pipes, to improve reaction rates. The apparatus includes means to extract products. The apparatus includes intraelectrode barriers to obstruct the movement of the isotopic fuel. The apparatus includes thermal and electrical busses, and enables integration of smaller units into larger assemblies.

Abstract: Isotopic hydrogen enrichment in a soluble metal is achieved through temperature gradient effects by applying a heat source and a heat sink to two spaced regions of the metal within which isotopic hydrogen atoms are absorbed and enclosed by a diffusion-barrier material. The temperature gradient so created forces the atoms of hydrogen in the hot region to migrate into the cold region, resulting in higher isotopic hydrogen density in the cold region. Discharge of the absorbed isotopic hydrogen is prevented effectively by the diffusion-barrier material.

Abstract: A pellet carrier disc is movably held between two cooling blocks. The disc is vertically moved, setting its through hole into axial alignment with a first hole of the block. Deuterium gas is supplied into the through hole through the hole, and cooled and solidified, forming a deuterium cylinder. Then, the disc is moved, axially aligning the hole with a second hole of the block. A shaft is thrust into a first end of the deuterium cylinder through the hole, thereby forming a hole in the end of the cylinder. Next, the disc is moved, axially aligning the hole with a third hole of the block. Tritium gas is introduced into the hole of the cylinder through the hole, and cooled and solidified, forming a tritium core. Further, the disc is moved, axially aligning the hole with a fourth hole of the block. A shaft is moved through the hole, causing the second end portion of the deuterium cylinder to project from the hole. The second end portion of the cylinder is cut off.

Abstract: The described injection system includes: a pneumatic system operating with hydrogen or helium and formed of one or more two-stage or multi-stage propulsion systems provided with special control or cutoff valves, the relative feeding circuits, and one or more decompression chambers, a cryogenic device formed of a Dewar flask containing liquid helium, a circuit for transferring and recovering the cooling fluid, and one or more conventional (in situ) or alternative cryostats provided each with one or more launching barrels in which the cryogenic pellets are solidified; a vacuum system comprising electrovalves, electropneumatic valves, rotating and turbomolecular pumps, and an equipment set for the automatic remote control of the whole system and for collecting and supplying diagnostic data to the central processing unit.

Abstract: Invention comprises an instrument in which momentum flux onto a biasable target plate is transferred via a suspended quartz tube onto a sensitive force transducer--a capacitance-type pressure gauge. The transducer is protected from thermal damage, arcing and sputtering, and materials used in the target and pendulum are electrically insulating, rigid even at elevated temperatures, and have low thermal conductivity. The instrument enables measurement of small forces (10.sup.-5 to 10.sup.3 N) accompanied by high heat fluxes which are transmitted by energetic particles with 10's of eV of kinetic energy in a intense magnetic field and pulsed plasma environment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration is disclosed. The plasma configuration includes a central toroidal plasma with electrical currents surrounded by a generally ellipsoidal mantle of ionized particles or electrically conducting matter. The preferred methods of forming this compound plasma configuration include the steps of forming a helical ionized path in a gaseous medium and simultaneously discharging a high potential through the ionized path to produce a helical or heliform current which collapses on itself to produce a toroidal current, or generating a toroidal plasmoid, supplying magnetic energy to the plasmoid, and applying fluid pressure external to the plasmoid. The apparatus of the present invention includes a pressure chamber wherein the compound plasma configuration can be isolated or compressed by fluid or other forms of mechanical or magnetic pressure.

Abstract: A method for establishing a region of a high density, high energy plasma at an altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers above the earth's surface. Circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted at a first frequency substantially parallel to an earth's magnetic field line to excite electron cyclotron resonance heating in normally occurring plasma at an altitude of at least about 250 kilometers to generate a mirror force which lifts said plasma to said altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers. Heating is continued at a second frequency to expand the plasma to the apex of said field line whereupon at least some of the plasma is trapped and oscillates between mirror points on said lines. The plasma will be contained within adjacent field lines and will drift to form a shell of relativistic particles around a portion of the earth.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration is disclosed. The plasma configuration includes a central toroidal current surrounded by a generally ellipsoidal mantel of ionized particles. The preferred methods of forming this compound plasma configuration include the steps of forming a helical ionized path in a gaseous medium and simultaneously discharging a high potential through the ionized path to produce a helical current which collapses on itself to produce a torroidal current, or generating a toroidal plasmoid, supplying magnetic energy to the plasmoid, and applying gas pressure external to the plasmoid. The apparatus of the present invention includes a pressure chamber wherein the compound plasma configuration can be isolated or compressed by fluid or other forms of mechanical pressure.

Abstract: A host liquid, such as a liquid metal, which is "seeded" with small bubbles of an inert gas, is maintained in a sealed chamber at an ambient temperature of about 100.degree. K. above the melting point of the host liquid, and at a static pressure ranging from 1 to 100 bars. A substance (for example carbon) which is capable of being allotropically transformed from a first form thereof (for example graphite) to a second form (for example diamond), is placed in the host liquid, which is then subjected to a time-varying acoustical pressure applied, for example, by a plurality of solid acoustical horns, which cause at least certain of the bubbles of inert gas to expand and then suddenly to collapse in a cavitation zone located substantially centrally of the chamber.

Abstract: A process to produce energy with the fusion of hydrogen and carbon in a thermonuclear fusion reaction with an extension, wherein carbon targets are bombarded with a beam of fast protons at temperatures of 457 kev. The thermonuclear fusion reaction produces two helium atoms and two neutron particles.The neutrons are captured by a blanket of lithium 7 which cools the walls and carries the heat to a turbulent heat exchanger, then to a generator and turbine complex which generates energy, giving tritium as a sub-product.The helium atoms plus alpha particles and protons are extracted to the reactor's extension where, combined with the tritium emitted in the first cycle of the thermonuclear fusion reactor, they go to generate more energy.This process becomes self-maintaining once the thermonuclear fusion reactor is put into operation.

Abstract: A multiple stage magnetic railgun accelerator (10) for accelerating a projectile (15) by movement of a plasma arc (13) along the rails (11,12). The railgun (10) is divided into a plurality of successive rail stages (10a-n) which are sequentially energized by separate energy sources (14a-n) as the projectile (15) moves through the bore (17) of the railgun (10). Propagation of energy from an energized rail stage back towards the breech end (29) of the railgun (10) can be prevented by connection of the energy sources (14a-n) to the rails (11,12) through isolation diodes (34a-n). Propagation of energy from an energized rail stage back towards the breech end of the railgun can also be prevented by dividing the rails (11,12) into electrically isolated rail sections (11a-n, 12a-n). In such case means (55a-n) are used to extinguish the arc at the end of each energized stage and a fuse (31) or laser device (61) is used to initiate a new plasma arc in the next energized rail stage.

Abstract: Two different cavitation fusion reactors (CFR's) are disclosed. Each comprises a chamber containing a liquid (host) metal such as lithium or an alloy thereof. Acoustical horns in the chamber walls operate to vary the ambient pressure in the liquid metal, creating therein small bubbles which are caused to grow to maximum sizes and then collapse violently in two steps. In the first stage the bubble contents remain at the temperature of the host liquid, but in the second stage the increasing speed of collapse causes an adiabatic compression of the bubble contents, and of the thin shell of liquid surrounding the bubble. Application of a positive pressure on the bubble accelerates this adiabatic stage, and causes the bubble to contract to smaller radius, thus increasing maximum temperatures and pressures reached within the bubble. At or near its minimum radius the bubble generates a very intense shock wave, creating high pressures and temperatures in the host liquid.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for simulating a fusion environment on a first wall or blanket structure. A material test specimen is contained in a capsule made of a material having a low hydrogen solubility and permeability. The capsule is partially filled with a lithium solution, such that the test specimen is encapsulated by the lithium. The capsule is irradiated by a fast fission neutron source.