ARTICLE THREE
“Thermonuclear Fusion Energy: A ‘Green’
Fuel”
By definition, thermonuclear fusion energy may be considered a “green fuel" because it is
self-sustaining once ignition takes place and is self-fustainable due to both the fuel components and the unique features
of the technological design supporting that sustainability.
The fuel components
of thermonuclear fusion energy come from heavy water or ordinary sea water that may be found within the proscribed "green
design" of 50 miles of the point of the powerplant in the U.S.A. , and do not involve the use of any fossil fuels, therefore
it does not pollute with tocis contaminates such as heavy metals, CO2, greenhouse gaes: SOX, NOX, methane, nor PCBs, CFCs.
This is especially good news because other althernative "green fuels" such as hydrogen separated
from hydrocarbon molecules of natural gas or petroleum oil are not sustainable because both are fossil fuels and have a bounded
quantity in 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 residue that must be disposed of containing highly
toxic contaminants.
However hydrogen derived from heavy water or ordinary
sea water is very pure, plentiful and abundantly renewable as the Earth’s
surface is cover by water 70% and is, therefore sustainable. Every molecule of water is composed of 1 O 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 temperature and pressure operating
conditions, these fuel components in a gas mixture bcome a plasma and serve as the fuel blanket whrein the
fusion energy reactions take place without cease.
After the gas mixture becomes a plasma (the fourth
state of matter) the next stage for the plasma fuel blanket is to reach "ignition" and a burning plasma: the condition
at which the fuel blanket becomes "sustainable" while permitting constant and continuous thermonuclear fusion energy
reactions.
Because there are no fossil fuels used in any phase of thermonuclear fusion energy, it cannot
pollute with PCBs or CFCs, heavy metals 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.
Proceeding with continous constant burn under optimum conditions the plasma fuel blanket is both self-sustaining
and sustainable. Highly-trained and educated plasma physicists will be in attendance to execute one of the many
unique functions of the powerplant technology: siphoning off 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-reintegration
for re-use in the reactor chamber located directly adjacent to the purification function room.
This unique technological feature found only in thermonuclear fusion energy allows immediate
onsite in-place re-purification and re-entry implementation of fuel components not requiring any transport off-site or waste
burial issues.
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.
In this regard, as a self-sustaining and sustainble 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 thermonuclear fission reactors for 4
- 5 times longer period of in-service.
When online, these unique thermonuclear fusion energy technology design features will finally free
America of foregin 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, employing American citizens throughout the process, America will finally achieve
a state of being energy secure, while creating new jobs for the "green economy".
With thermonucelar fusion energy technology online for commercial
electricity generation, Americans will at long last, be able to achieve a steady-state equilibrium 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. Predictable reduced fuel costs will give America's working family's a
measure of having more economic security and will enable them to save, 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 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, 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 territorties, presently known and being explored.
If you are moved by the many advantages of bringing thermonulcear
fusion energy online and want to know what you can do to help hasten the clean-green economy, see
paniccell.com./writeyourrepresentatives
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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, Founder and CEO
The International Institute For Thermonuclear Fusion Energy Education, R&D, Regulation, Technology and Public Policy, Inc.
