Water heater
AssigneeAlpha Ring International, Ltd.
InventorAlfred Y. Wong
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for (i) producing and controlling and fusion activities of nuclei, and (ii) heating liquid via heat generated as a result of the fusion activities. Hydrogen atoms or other neutral species (neutrals) are induced to rotational motion in a confinement region as a result of ion-neutral coupling, in which ions are driven by electric and magnetic fields. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions including aneutronic reactions such as proton-boron-11 fusion reactions.
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An apparatus for heating a liquid, the apparatus comprising:
- a tank configured for storing the liquid;
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- a reactor that is thermally coupled to the liquid such that heat emanating from the reactor heats the liquid, the reactor comprising:
- a confining wall at least partially enclosing a confinement region within which charged particles and neutrals can rotate;
- a plurality of electrodes adjacent or proximate to the confinement region;
- a control system comprising a voltage and/or current source configured to apply an electric potential between at least two of the plurality of electrodes, wherein the applied electric potential generates an electric field within the confinement region that alone, or in conjunction with a magnetic field, induces and/or maintains rotational movement of the charged particles and the neutrals in the confinement region;
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- a reactant disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region such that, during operation, repeated collisions between the neutrals and the reactant produce an interaction with the reactant that gives off energy and produces a product having a nuclear mass that is different from a nuclear mass of any of the nuclei of the neutrals and the reactant.
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An apparatus for heating a liquid, the apparatus comprising:
- a confining wall at least partially enclosing a confinement region within which charged particles and neutrals can rotate;
- a plurality of electrodes adjacent or proximate to the confinement region;
- a control system comprising a voltage and/or current source configured to apply an electric potential between at least two of the plurality of electrodes, wherein the applied electric potential generates an electric field within the confinement region that alone, or in conjunction with a magnetic field, induces and/or maintains rotational movement of the charged particles and the neutrals in the confinement region;
- a reactant disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region such that, during operation, repeated collisions between the neutrals and the reactant produce an interaction with the reactant that gives off energy and produces a product having a nuclear mass that is different from a nuclear mass of any of the nuclei of the neutrals and the reactant;
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- a fluidic circuit thermally coupled to the confining wall and configured so that the liquid passing through the circuit is heated by the interaction that gives off energy.
A method for delivering heated liquid using heat emitted from a reactor, the method comprising:
- receiving a liquid in a tank via an inlet port, wherein the tank is thermally coupled to the fusion reactor;
- applying an electric field between at least two electrodes of a plurality of electrodes that are adjacent or proximate to a confinement region so that the applied electric field at least partially traverses the confinement region and induces rotational movement of particles and neutrals within the confinement region,
- wherein repeated collisions of neutrals with a reactant disposed in or adjacent to the confinement region produces an interaction that produces a product having a nuclear mass that is different from nuclear masses of the nuclei of the particles and the fusion reactant, and
- wherein the interaction gives off energy and causes the reactor to emit heat which is conducted through the reactor and absorbed by the liquid in the tank to produce heated liquid;
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- delivering the heated liquid via an outlet port in the tank.
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