Commercial power production by catalytic fusion of deuterium gas
OwnerLeslie catron Caseinventor
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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. The process is necessarily run on a cyclic basis, with a multiplicity of catalyst bed entities, with one or more being in the D2-absorption mode, concurrently with one or more being in the heat-generation node.
The process of producing energy by fusion of deuterium into helium-4, which comprises loading deuterium gas into a metallic hydrogenation catalyst capable of chemisorbing said deuterium gas at about 150° C., and subsequently degassing said catalyst at a reduced pressure of no more than about 0.25 atm. absolute, and at a temperature of at least about 150° C.
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