Expandable chamber fusion reactor system
AssigneeTexas Gas Transmission Corporation
InventorJohn G. Lewis
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Abstract
A piston is moved by a laser incited fusion reaction such as deuterium-tritium (D-T) to thereby produce an expandable fusion chamber. When a gaseous substance such as CO.sub.2 is presented in the presence of the fusion reaction, it is dissociated into CO and O.sub.2 component mixture and the expansion of the chamber rapidly cools the mixture and quenches the back reaction thereby producing a greater CO yield. Also the piston produces peripheral power from the fusion reaction in the form of mechanical energy.
Claims18
The method of converting the expansive forces, shockwave, thermal and plasma energy of a fusion reaction within a chamber to useable energy forms wherein the chamber has smaller primary and larger secondary cylinder spaces of different diameters separated by a movable piston which leaves the smaller chamber volume thereby exposing the larger secondary chamber volume to increase chamber volume as a step function comprising the steps of:
- inducing the reaction in said smaller dimension primary reactive chamber volume,
- expanding by the shockwave energy of the reaction chamber dimension to said larger dimension secondary cylinder space volume by moving the piston out of the smaller cylinder space,
- and cooling gases developed by the reaction by means of the step function increase in chamber volume.
A cyclically operable moving mechanism powered by sequential fusion reactions within a confined chamber, comprising in combination,
- a chamber having smaller primary and larger secondary cylinder spaces of different diameters,
- a piston reciprocally movable within said chamber out of the smaller and into the larger space,
- means periodically presenting fusion fuel pellets within said chamber, and
- means for exploding said pellets in said chamber to thereby reciprocate said piston with the shock wave energy surrounding the explosion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.