Affiliation(s)
1. Golden Gate University, Ageno School of Business, San Francisco, California 94105, USA
2. Galaxy Advanced Engineering, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111, USA
ABSTRACT
In the 1970s, scientists began experimenting with powerful laser beams
to compress and heat the hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusion, a technique
called ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion). In the “direct drive” approach to
ICF, powerful beams of laser light are focused on a small spherical pellet
containing micrograms of deuterium and tritium. The rapid heating caused by the
laser “driver” makes the outer layer of the target explode. In keeping with
Isaac Newton’s Third Law “For every action, there is an equal and opposite
reaction”, the remaining portion of the target is driven inwards in a
rocket-like implosion, causing compression of the fuel inside the capsule and
the formation of a shock wave, which further heats the fuel in the very center
and results in a self-sustaining burn. The fusion burn propagates outward
through the cooler, outer regions of the capsule much more rapidly than the
capsule can expand. Instead of magnetic fields, the plasma is confined by the
inertia of its own mass—hence the term inertial confinement fusion. A similar process can
be observed on an astrophysical scale in stars and the terrestrial uber world, that have exhausted
their nuclear fuel, hence inertially or gravitationally collapsing and
generating a supernova explosion, where the results can easily be converted to
induction of energy in control forms for a peaceful purpose (i.e., inertial
fusion reaction) by means of thermal physics
and statistical mechanics behavior of an ideal Fermi gas, utilizing
Fermi-Degeneracy and Thomas-Fermi theory. The fundamental understanding of thermal physics
and statistical mechanics enables us to have a better
understanding of Fermi-Degeneracy as well as Thomas-Fermi theory of ideal gas,
which results in laser compressing matter to a super high density for purpose
of producing thermonuclear energy in way of controlled form for peaceful shape
and form i.e. CTR (Controlled Thermonuclear Reaction). In this short review, we
have concentrated on Fundamental of State Equations by driving them as it was
evaluated in book Statistical Mechanics written by Mayer, J. and Mayer,
M. in
this article.
KEYWORDS
renewable, nonrenewable source of energy, fusion
reactors, super high density matter, laser driven fusion energy,
Fermi-Degeneracy, Thomas-Fermi theory, return on investment, total cost of
ownership.
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