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Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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post #5

"If it can be achieved, nuclear fusion would be a massive improvement over fission in that it produces much lower levels of radioactive waste and greenhouse gases, does not require enriched nuclear material that could be used to produce weapons" thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using fission to ignite a fusion fuel. a fusion bomb, or other such weapon is probably closer to production than fusion derived…

I think it would be better to phrase this as:

Thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using the energetic fission products to confine and compress a fusion fuel so that it can burn.

As soon as the radiation pressure drops below a critical threshold, the fusion reaction ceases immediately. The fusion reaction cannot sustain on its own without this incredible amount of force being applied to it continuously.

This is why we still have not produced commercially-viable pure-fusion power plants. It may still be possible, but if you consider the forces and energies required to create a single-shot weapon that burns its fuel only for fractions of a second, you might start to appreciate the challenge that engineers and scientists have undertaken with the objective of continuously providing fusion power.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

None, zip, zilch, nada, zero. If it were real, it'd be a national security secret of the sort people go to jail forever for revealing, not a patent.

I did some searching, and apparently lying about this is punishable with up to 5 years imprisonment: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9015-appx-l....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

Depressingly powerful. For example:

https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu...

> The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Fresno police officers accused of stealing more than $225,000 while executing a search warrant are protected by qualified immunity and thus cannot be sued over the incident.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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post #19

If is real, I'm incredibly excited!

You just triggered some intense deja vu. I had the exact same response after Pons and Fleischman's press conference back in the day. The lure of the magic-bullet/deus-ex-Machina, (that one device that will solve pretty much everything!), can be pretty intoxicating.

If it isn't real, I hope that the people that filed this spend some time in jail...

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did some searching, and apparently lying about this is punishable with up to 5 years imprisonment: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9015-appx-l....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity Depressingly powerful. For example: https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu... > The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Fresno police officers accused of stealing more than $225,000 while executing a search warrant are protected by qualified immunity and thus cannot be sued over the incident.

Hmm, that's important to consider! So I'll continue fence-sitting on this one. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

#26
post #8

Check out this dude's patents: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=salvatore+pais&oq=salva... Laser augmented turbojet propulsion system Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device Electromagnetic field generator and method to generate an electromagnetic field Plasma Compression Fusion Device High frequency gravitational wave generator Piezoelectricity-induced Room Temperature Superconductor

Just going off the titles, at least 1, 4 and 6 are possibly not bs. Laser augmented combustion is a thing, compression fusion like general fusion or first light fusion is a thing and if you use piezoelectricity to induce pressure, then at very high pressures some materials become superconductors near room temperature

5 looks a whole like an EmDrive too.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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post #21
post #5

"If it can be achieved, nuclear fusion would be a massive improvement over fission in that it produces much lower levels of radioactive waste and greenhouse gases, does not require enriched nuclear material that could be used to produce weapons" thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using fission to ignite a fusion fuel. a fusion bomb, or other such weapon is probably closer to production than fusion derived…

I think it would be better to phrase this as: Thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using the energetic fission products to confine and compress a fusion fuel so that it can burn. As soon as the radiation pressure drops below a critical threshold, the fusion reaction ceases immediately. The fusion reaction cannot sustain on its own without this incredible amount of force being applied to it continuously. Thi…

have a look at nuclear isomers, the big direction is to create a device that may arbitrarily, [as in switchon/switch off] stimulate fusion and emit the yield in a unidirectional manner, multiple times before refueling. basically a high energy neutron flux beam weapon.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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post #25

If someone has such super technology, why patent it so people can easily steal the idea with a google search? Why not keep it secret and use it to fuel a giddy ride to the top of the power hierarchy?

Exopolitics wrote the following, which I agree with:

"Given what we know about secret space programs developed by the US Navy and Air Force respectively, electromagnetic propulsion systems have been used for decades in several crafts that operate both in space and underwater. The reason why Dr. Pais chose not to mark the patent applications secret was that senior Navy officials have decided the time had come for the disclosure of advanced electromagnetic propulsion technologies that were already in operation, rather than merely innovative proposals for future development as suggested in the patent application."

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