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The US Navy is building an innovative and compact artificial sun for itself

marianomarianoPosted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read

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Fusion reactors are no longer a song of the past. This powerful source of energy, which will significantly accelerate the technological development of our civilization, is to begin to enter commercial use within 3 to 5 years.

Although China and the United Kingdom are currently pioneers of artificial sun technology, everything seems to indicate that the first compact devices will appear in the US Army. At least, such plans have the Pentagon, which for several years has been investing sky-high funds in futuristic technologies of the future for the needs of modernizing the army in the realities of an increasing threat from China.

Built by the UK, China, South Korea or the European Union, fusion reactors are about the size of a building. Meanwhile, in the United States, the military is developing a compact version at Naval Air Warfare Center that will be fully mobile and will not take up a lot of space on ships.
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Engineer Salvatore Caesar Pais developed a fusion reactor concept for the Pentagon based on a completely different technology than currently used in the world. It is based on the part called dynamic fusor. According to this patent, the Paisa plasma chamber contains several pairs of these dynamic fusors that rapidly rotate and vibrate in the chamber to create a "concentrated magnetic energy stream". Its task is to compress the gases together.

The fusors are covered with a cone-shaped electrical charge and pump fuel gases, such as deuterium or deuter-xenon, into the chamber, which are then subjected to intense heat and pressure to cause the testicles to melt. Engineers' calculations show that the device can potentially produce more than a terawatt of energy, while consuming energy from kilowatt to megawatt. This means that the compact artificial sun will be cost-effective and provide enough energy for the operation of even the most demanding vessels.

Interestingly, the British have recently made a major breakthrough on the road to building the first functional nuclear fusion reactors. Tokamak Energy scientists presented the latest and the most advanced HTS magnets in the world at the moment, made of high temperature superconducting material. According to the company's plan, magnets with such properties were not to be created until the end of 2020, but scientists managed to prepare them now. Thanks to them, work on building a functional fusion reactor will now be significantly accelerated.

Source: The War Zone
Photo: University of Washington

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