Sonoluminescence, The Way To Nuclear Fusion
Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan, claims that he has been able to produce nuclear fusion. The scientific community is very skeptical of the results and are desperately trying to either reproduce Taleyarkhan’s experiment or expose him as a fraud. Taleyarkhan maintains that the data speaks for itself. Nuclear fusion on Earth would be an abundant, clean power supply for the world that would probably never run out.
It would be clean, last for ever and create no long-term nuclear waste. And Rusi Taleyarkhan claims to have achieved it using simple sound waves.
His breakthrough is based on something called sonoluminescence. It is a process that transforms sound waves into flashes of light, focusing the sound energy into a tiny flickering hot spot inside a bubble.
It has been nicknamed “the star in a jar” by researchers in the field.
The star in a jar effortlessly reaches temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, which is hotter than the surface of the Sun. It was able to do all this by simply focusing the energy of the sound wave into a tiny hot spot.
In order to get fusion, temperatures inside the bubble had to be in the region of 10 million degrees. It seemed improbable that the tiny hot spots could be this hot. But if they were - or if a way could be found to make them so - then a new route to nuclear fusion would be opened up.
February 23rd, 2005 at 6:11 am
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March 11th, 2005 at 12:53 am
I’m no expert in any sense of the word, but I can’t seem to find any mention of a method that could also reduce the probability of backround neutrons being mistaken as the results of cold fusion. As I will repeatedly state, I am in no sence of the word an expert. So with this in mind, heres the idea.
This is based on two assumptions I am making based soley on what I have read online in the past 15 minutes, heaven help me. =) These assumptions are that neutrons travel in a straight line until they stop or somehow change angle, that the speed of a neutron can be appromated, that the approxmate origin of the neutrons on can be measured to some degree an x,y,z axis coordinate, that the neutrons originating from the neutron generator are being generated within an area of which the dimensions and position can also be measured on an x,y,z axis scale, and finally,that the average number of neutrons being generated by the nuetron generator from various positions on the x,y,z coordinates.
If this can be done, set up two or more detection systems, knowing the positions of each detection system, each oriented to the approximate position of where the bubble is going to be.
So anyway, the number of neutrons being generated along the area of the where the neutron generator is doing its thing must be finite (another assumption). So the idea is to map out the positions of neutrons being generated along an axis that lines of with the detectors. Line up the detectors so that the presence of neutron traveling in straight line that is detected by the closest, can be detected by the other(s). The further away the detectors are from the generator, the less the margin of error of detecting the same neutron (or lack thereof, that part I’m not so clear on) in the 2nd detector. This is assuming of course, that the time it takes the neutron to travel to the detectors can be arrived at on both detectors. Do this a whole bunch of times and calculate the probability of nuetrons being generated from the neutron generator passing between the detectors. Now arrange the experiment so that you are measuring nuetrons from the bubble with the detectors. If possible, use detectors to measure both simultaneously.
I may be off in how to go about measuring the random probability of a nuetron passing through a line along a given axis, but a method close to the concept as expained about should either finally confirm Rusi Taleyarkhan’s findings, or completely blow them out of the water. I’m no expert. but hey, why not share an idea that might help save the world?
April 23rd, 2005 at 8:14 am
If is real this experiment this will be the most great discovery in the human being history, now i anderstand why some others parts are always evoiding to minimize this conclusions, i’d like to know more about it.
June 8th, 2005 at 11:14 pm
I read in another article that sono fusion could not happen because the imploding wave front could not be spherical enough. Wonder how atom bombs have been working all these years?