Eric Lerner presents Focus Fusion as the Short Route to Fusion at a March 9, 2014 event in Manhattan

1. March 9, 2014
A Short Route
to
FUSION
Cheap, Clean, Safe & Unlimited Energy

2. In the US, the median
person pays $1 in 6 for
energy
$9,000/year, $22 a day
Worldwide: $1 a
day for energy
$3 a day
total income

3. Total energy costs:
$ 5 trillion a year
Global rate of increase
in debt:
$5 trillion a year

4. 7 Million Deaths Annually
from Fossil Fuel Pollution

5. What Is Fusion?

6. Tokamak

7. What Is Focus Fusion?
Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Within a
Dense Plasma Focus Device
Running on Aneutronic Fuel.

8. What Is Aneutronic Fusion?
It’s a fusion using aneutronic fuel, ideally made of hydrogen and
boron, pB11, which produces no neutrons and thus no
radioactive waste.
Aneutronic → No neutrons → No Radioactive waste
LPPHYSICS.COM

9. Direct energy conversion → No $$$ turbines
Why Is Aneutronic Fusion Cheap?
No neutrons → No Radioactive waste

10. Only Focus fusion leads to much cheaper
clean energy
―If you have another clean way to produce [energy]
at 2 to 10 cents per Kwhr, the world does not
change,‖ says Brian Wang. ―Only [with] LPP, if they
can get it down to 0.1 cent per Kwhr does the
world change.‖
Motherboard, October 29, 2013

12. Spiral GalaxyQuasars
Beam From Star Formation
REPRODUCING NATURAL INSTABILITIES
Solar Flares

13. Dense Plasma Focus :
small inexpensive device

14. Inside of FF-1’s Generator

15. Energy (X-rays, Ion Beams) Capture
Device

16. Where Are We?
Ion temperature— goal achieved —over
1.8 billion degrees, enough to ignite pB11
Confinement time— goal achieved 20 ns—
more than 8 ns goal
Energy transfer to plasmoid—
over 50% of goal
Density—must increase by 10,000

17. From NJ to your neighborhood
1 Year – conclude scientific feasibility
4 Years – for commercial generator
FF-X, 2018FF-1, 2015

18. Science Fiction?
Other physicists don’t think so

19. Safe
NO neutrons from main reaction
NO high energy neutrons
NO radioactive waste—electrodes contain
less radioactivity than a roomful of
people.
Generator safe to service without
protection 9 hours after turn-off

20. COSTS
For 5 MW generator, mass
production
$0.08-$0.20/W
Electric cost
Less than 0.3 cents/kwH
vs best today of 6 cents/kwH

21. Far Less Cost Than
Any Existing Source

22. Energy Benefits
17% increase in real income for median
US resident
44% increase in real income for median
person in the world

23. Distributed Power
5 MW generators, safe enough to
put in neighborhoods
far more reliability in disasters,
rapid deployment to towns and
villages throughout the world

24. JOBS, Services and Infrastructure
$5 TRILLION per year not
spent on energy
100-150 million new jobs
globally

25. Fusion for Peace
No more war to prop up the price of oil
Fission energy is obsolete—
lock up the uranium mines

26. Fusion for the Environment
End deadly pollution from coal, diesel, gasoline
End oil spills, mining devastation
Total recycling with plasma torch
Money released to end deforestation, environmental
clean-up,
No greenhouse gases
No radioactive waste

27. Fusion for the Environment
End deadly pollution from coal, diesel,
gasoline
End oil spills, mining devastation
Total recycling with plasma torch
Money released to end deforestation,
environmental clean-up
No greenhouse gases
No radioactive waste

28. Space Exploration
A fusion rocket could get to Mars in
2 weeks
A multistage interstellar fusion
rocket could in theory attain 1/3
the speed of light

29. Steps To Increase Density
50x-- Achieve theoretical density—tungsten
electrodes to eliminate impurity
10x-- Increase current to 2.8 MA
20x-- Better compression with heavier pB11

30. Needed:
Beryllium electrodes
Tungsten is fine for impurity, but
absorbs too many x-rays
Beryllium far more transparent
But costs-- (single unit)--$250,000

31. Crowdfunding
Launch on Indiegogo April 22
Goal $250,000 (nice to get more!)
Need $1 million,
12 months to scientific feasibility

32. Need volunteers!
Need publicity—web, social media
Start online discussions everywhere
Goals:
100 by March 15
1,000 by April 22
Each one reach 3 in 3 weeks!

33. Our Intellectual Property:
• US patent 7,482,607
• Chinese Patent No. 200780007065.7
• Australian Patent 2007314648
• Patent applications , same priority date:
Europe, Canada, India

34. Aneutronic Fusion
Comparison
LogTemperature
(eV)
Log (Density x Confinement Time)
(sec/cc)