Australian scientists are developing a fusion hydrogen-boron reactor

Australian company representatives HB11 issued a statement that they are halfway to the creation of a fusion reactor without the use of high temperatures and radioactive fuel.

In addition, company representatives have already received patents for their approach in countries such as China, USA, Japan.

Thermonuclear fusion and its problems

You all know that thermonuclear fusion is the process of fission of atoms, which has been taking place on our Sun for hundreds of millions of years and provides us with life-giving warmth.

The very possibility of using thermonuclear fusion promises all mankind a safe, cheap and most importantly affordable green energy without any probable problems with radiation and the melting of the active core of the reactor (as in atomic stations).

There are many projects to create a real operating fusion reactor, for example, projects such as ITER, Wendelstein 7-X, etc. So the overwhelming majority of projects work on deuterium-tritium, and for its work, a colossal temperature is required. Which significantly exceeds even the temperature on our Sun.

But HB11 engineers decided to go the other way.

What is the essence of the new technology

The fruit of many years of work of Professor G. Hora got the idea to use a lot of hydrogen and boron B-11 as a fuel cell, and in order to to start the synthesis reaction, it was proposed to use an ultra-modern complex of high-precision lasers.

How the installation works

An experimental setup was built, which is a metal sphere, in the central part of which there is a small fuel cell.

In some parts of the sphere, special holes have been made for the operation of a pair of laser installations.

One of the lasers is responsible for the formation of a magnetic field, which is responsible for confining the plasma.

And the second laser is responsible for launching an avalanche-like chain thermonuclear reaction.

So the alpha particles formed during the reaction form an electric current, which can be relayed to the network almost immediately.

At the same time, as the developers especially emphasize, their installation does not require a heat exchanger and a turbine.

So, the main difference between this installation is that HB11 engineers use laser installations not to obtain ultra-high temperatures. (as in other fusion installations), but in order to accelerate hydrogen through a boron sample and thereby provoke a collision atoms.

As soon as a hydrogen atom collides with a boron atom, two helium atoms are formed. In this case, the formed atoms are devoid of electrons, which means they have a positive charge. And due to this, a current is created.

What are the development prospects

Despite the success of the first experiments, Dr. Mackenzie is extremely cautious in predicting the future of the project. Indeed, according to him, they are only at the very beginning of the path in the development of technology.

And it is necessary for this company to collect a base and accumulate statistical material on the reactions, and only then proceed to the creation of the first working hydrogen-boron thermonuclear reactor.

If the project is successful, it will be the beginning of a new era in the energy sector around the world.

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