The Brancoveanu Project or The Open Sphere Project is a project started in March 2012 and finalized in August 2014. For various reasons, I did not consider it appropriate to publish details of this project so far. But I think the time has come for this project to become a reality and start building the first nuclear fusion power plants.
Beyond the technical and scientific feasibility aspects, one aspect emerges immediately – is this project right now or not?
If we take into account the huge amounts invested in the oil, gas and coal industries, the amazing absolute value of turnover in these industries and the millions of employees in refineries, extraction wells and platforms, marine tankers, millions of miners, capabilities absolutely huge in coal power plants – well! ….. I can not ask ourselves the question:
What will be the real and immediate impact of implementing such technology?
This project is relatively easy to execute by technologically advanced countries if they cooperate with each other and the reactors themselves are easy to maintain. I have to admit that the only country in the world that can build on such a reactor alone is Germany – thanks to its highly advanced expertise, the well-established industrial infrastructure and a body of engineers and technicians exception.
Please take into account that the only items that will require constant maintenance are:
– the inner part of the ova which at least 2 years will need to be re-aluminized
– carbon fiber or tungsten or composite (boron, etc.) that will sublime constantly
Otherwise, the other components of the reactor itself can function without problems for centuries. This results in absolutely ridiculous production prices – at most 8-10 euro-cents per megawatt hour (estimation for 40 years inside proiekt Tunguska – GAGARIN lasers installed). The price itself is likely to initially trigger a major global crisis!
Regarding the BRANCOVEANU Project, the basic mechanism is the following:
– a plasma sphere of temperature and variable size is positioned with the help of intense light in the geometric center of a certain kind of ovoid. In this sphere of plasma, two types of ion cannons “shoot” with nuclear fuel – small-speed ions that permanently fuel the sphere to maintain its shape and high-speed ions that fuse with the material in the sphere.
The truly revolutionary idea of the project is that the manipulation of light has been divided into two phases:
– instead of the light generated by the nuclear reactions being reflected back to the sphere, we chose the light generated first to be pushed out of the sphere onto a micrometric carbon / tungsten / boron pinhole and then the light emitted by it to be precisely focused on the plasma sphere. Why ? The explanation is simple – the fusion reactions involved are totally or partially aneutronic, and the yield of reaction products is ceded by moderating (slowing down) the ions in the mass of gas around the sphere core through thousands of collisions with other atoms, and where, in turn, much of X-ray radiation is at its moderate level – this basically means that in some cases light is no longer emitted directly and perfectly from the geometric center of the plasma sphere but within a sphere of dimensions sometimes and centimeters which means it is no longer so it is possible to accurately refoculate microns of the light generated by the plasma sphere by the ovoid reflector layer. It is virtually impossible for this light reflected directly from the reactor walls to hold in place and under high pressure the plasma sphere.
Basically, it is not necessary that the light coming out of the reactor be precisely focused, but it is enough that this light just comes out of the reactor and illuminates the carbon fiber, then the light emitted by the carbon fiber will be focused with extreme precision. Also this design has the advantage that carbon fiber has two faces – a face heated directly by the light coming from the reactor and a face that emits in the EXTERIOR. Obviously, some of the light reflected in the outside is mirrored back to the carbon fiber by a simple and banal mirror, and this mirror is actually a small-sized aluminized sieve that lets pass a variable (variable) light emitted from the carbon fiber. This “filtered” light by the reflective screen is actually the source of energy that is subsequently used to get electricity. Also, two tweezers can be used instead of a single one – the second (external) can pass an electric current that controls certain parameters of the reactor.
Regarding the fact that in the presented material is missing certain “details”, please consider the following:
– “lasers” that are not explained in the material are obviously not lasers (stimulated emission) but coherent and linear linear sources of light obtained ………. – Without these lasers, it is not possible to operate the reactor in any way because the high-speed ions have to be focused and thus stopped by the plasma and gas sphere – otherwise they will rapidly damage the mirror of the reactor.
– The mechanism of “parallelizing” the light rays entering the reactor is a realistic and perfectly achievable mechanism and absolutely indispensable in the operation of the reactor. Obviously in some conditions the parallelizing component may be missing if the fusion reactions take place mostly in A sphere of several micrometers and most of the energy produced by the reactor is used for this purpose.
– The reactor startup mechanism is not explained because it simply has immediate unwanted application – we are talking about 400 high-power nuclear lasers that compress the ovoid nuclear material through “direct-drive” and basically can ignite ANY FUEL NUCLEAR FUEL TO ALUMINUM OR SILICON. Such a laser – PROJEKT KOLIMA – can develop up to 1034 W / cm2 and obviously it is a small laser section (gamma ray burst) – sometimes up to several square millimeters and very short time (sometimes up to 10 femtoseconds if we take into account the cooling time rather than the actual reaction). In my opinion, the maximum that can be obtained without detonating very large amounts of nuclear fuel is about 1044 W / cm2 with a working time of about 10 femtoseconds based on a smart mechanism of obstructing gamma radiation and neutron flux for a few picoseconds. The need to design such a laser appeared as we work at PROIEKT TAIMIR where the confinement requirements of the matter are astounding
– It is now obvious that the initial fuel – that is, at the moment of detonation – is not required to be the same as that used during the operation of the reactor.
Regarding the practical realization of the project – it is clear that Romania can not at this time build such a reactor and we probably will not even let it do it. We’re missing:
– Qualified staff – will last for years until we have a first generation of experts in mirrors and carbon processing
– Expertise in high aluminization of large surfaces
– expertise in obtaining rigid carbon sheets
– machines for measuring the fines of all arrangements
– the funds – I appreciate the costs of PROJEKT TUNGUSKA to at least 220 – 250 million euros (Romanian costs – June 2014 for variant with GAGARIN type lasers installed).
As it emerges from this study 4-5 reactors of this kind in operation can easily accumulate installed power of up to 200,000 MW, well above the current consumption of Romania. Then the biggest problem will be the national electricity grid that will need to be re-dimensioned to allow electric heating of the population’s homes.