ARTICLE THREE
“Thermonuclear Fusion Energy:
A ‘Green’ Fuel”
DIANE A. DAVIS, M.S., Ph.D. Cand.
copyright claimed March, 2002
By definition, thermonuclear fusion energy may be considered a “clean-green fuel" because
it is self-sustaining once ignition takes place and is self-sustainable due to both the fuel components and the unique features
of the technological design supporting that inherent sustainability.
The fuel components
of thermonuclear fusion energy come from heavy water or ordinary sea water that may be found within the proscribed statute
of "green design" of 50 miles from the point of the powerplant in the U.S.A.; more importantly, do not involve
the use of any fossil fuels, therefore it does not pollute with toxic contaminates such as particulate matter, heavy metals,
CO2, greenhouse gases: SOX, NOX, methane, or PCBs, CFCs.
This is especially good news because other alternative "green fuels" such as hydrogen separated
currently from hydrocarbon molecules of natural gas or petroleum oil are not sustainable because petroleum and natural gas
are both fossil fuels and therefore have a bounded limited quantity within the Earth’s crust.
Moreover, after the hydrogen is separated from the hydrocarbon
molecules of the petroleum oil or natural gas, there is a still a waste toxic particulate residue that must be disposed of
(where?) containing highly toxic contaminants.
Conversely, hydrogen derived from heavy water
or ordinary sea water is very pure, plentiful and abundantly renewable as the
Earth’s surface is covered 70% by water and is, therefore sustainable as these deep waters are self-phasing from
liquid through gas evaporation and condensation. Every molecule of water is composed of 1O and 2H. The naturally-occurring
isotopes of hydrogen found in every molecule of water are among the elemental components of the gas mixture used in thermonuclear
fusion energy.
Under optimum operating temperature and pressure
conditions, these fuel components, under extremely high temperature and pressure, the gas mixture is
forced into becoming the 4th state of matter, a plasma which serves as the fuel blanket wherein the thermonuclear
fusion energy reactions take place without ceasation, thus self-sustaining.
After the gas mixture becomes a plasma the
next stage for the plasma fuel blanket is to reach "ignition" and a self-sustaining "burning plasma". This is the
condition by which the fuel blanket becomes "self-sustainable," permitting perpetually continuous thermonuclear
fusion energy reactions within itself.
Because there are no fossil fuels used in any phase of thermonuclear fusion energy, it cannot
produce and thereby pollute, our precious natural resources (i.e. potable water, air, agricultural-grazing soil) with
PCBs or CFCs, heavy metals, toxic particular matter that cause birth defects, contribute to human activity's carbon
footprint, contribute to CO2, NOX or SOX , or methane gas contamination
of the air, water, agriculture-grazing soil, deepwater sediment, and which are responsible for deep ocean species and
rock formation destruction.
Proceeding with continuous perpetual burn under optimum conditions the plasma fuel blanket is both
self-sustaining and sustainable. Highly-trained plasma physicists will be in attendance to execute one of the many
unique functions of the powerplant technology: periodic siphoning excess heat from the burning plasma fuel blanket
for the purpose of turning the turbine generators that produce reliable baseloading clean "green" primary commercial
electricity.
The plasma physicists will also maintain the fuel mix at optimum conditions by a second very
unique design feature. This feature involves the closed-loop cycle of fuel component removal-purification and reintegration
for reuse in the reactor chamber located directly adjacent to the purification function room: life-cycle closed-loop technology.
This unique technological feature found only in thermonuclear fusion energy allows immediate
onsite in-situ re-purification and re-entry implementation of fuel components not requiring any transport off-site or waste
burial issues. Fusion energy fuel components in this powerplant technology schematic can never be used as weapons
and therefore pose no threat to homeland security from terrorists.
The aim of the U.S. Fusion Energy R&D
Program has been to incorporate materials into the engineered design such that each powerplant will be a solid-state
machine capable of 100 years or more of continuous service. When a thermonuclear fusion energy powerlant is
finally decommissioned after 100 years or more, only the reactor materials that have been exposed to Low Level "C" waste
in addition to the concrete on which the chamber was mounted will be in need of shallow contained burial. This is good
news as it solves waste-burial issues with High Level "A" waste from our present thermonuclear fission powerplant
technology (and even that waste is now being technologically recycled effectively into useful products).
In this regard, as a self-sustaining and sustainable non-polluting, non-contaminating technology,
thermonuclear fusion energy may be considered a renewable, sustainable or "clean - green fuel" when online while
capable of producing 5 - 6 times the megawattage presently produced by our largest in-service thermonuclear fission reactors
for 4 - 5 times longer period of in-service, decommissioning being required to occur only once in 100 years at the minimum,
with extensions possible, in the technology beyond Project "DEMO".
When online, these unique thermonuclear fusion energy powerplant technology design features will
finally free America and the traditional western free-market economies of our dependency upon foreign petroleum oil and gas,
future economic recessions due to the sudden upward price bidding and competitive dwindling of world oil and gas commodity
availability.
Moreover, because the fuel and power plant materials will be designed and specified, sited,
planned, manufactured and constructed here at home, domestically, highly-trained American citizens will be employed throughout
the process. The United States of America will finally achieve a state of being energy secure, while at long last
creating new types of jobs for the "green economy."
With thermonuclear fusion energy technology online for commercial
electricity generation, Americans will finally be able to achieve a steady-state equilibrium economy for more predictable
fuel costs for home and business space conditioning and transportation, leaving each family more disposable income
for their family's other needs, including re-building their savings accounts.
Predictable reduced fuel costs will give America's
working family's a measure of having more economic security and will enable them to save more of their disposable income thereby
increasing America's capability of investing once again in its own infrastructure, increasing America's prosperity and reducing
America's national debt of $700 - 800BB for imported oil and gas annually, as well as reducing the need for foreign political
states to buy America's energy debts.
As the "green economy" embraces a platform of thermonuclear fusion
energy powerplant technology to underpin our fast-track high-demand energy needs, See Vollume III) America will be able to achieve homeland security because Her sons and daughters will not be called upon to fight
the predicted needless wars on foreign shores over the dwindling supplies of oil and gas. Whatever oil and gas needed
to fuel the American economy will come from within her own territories, both presently known and being explored.
If you are moved by the many advantages of bringing thermonuclear
fusion energy online and want to know what you can do to help hasten the clean-green, sustainable fusion energy economy,
write to your elected U.S. Congressional representatives by clicking on this link: Write your Representatives. See
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In Article Four, you will learn how thermonuclear fusion energy technology is especially unique in its
ability to generate not only 5 - 6 times more electricity per powerplant but also produce other “green fuels”
and “alternative fuels” as by-products that can aide in environmental clean-up and environmental restoration
while providing the U.S.A. with ~87% of its fast-track energy demands.
Article Two
Article Four
Author: Diane A. Davis, M.S., Ph.D. Cand., Founder and CEO
The International Institute For Thermonuclear Fusion Energy Education, R&D, Regulation, Technology and Public Policy, Inc.
Filed and registered at U.S. Library of Congress Office of Copyrights Protection. All copyrights domestic and international
claimed by author, Diane A. Davis
