Real Clean Energy Man

Part of the problem is the temperature gradients are very great - there is nothing that can go anywhere near the plasma without being boiled in a blink. Easier to let the radiant heat spread out a bit and catch it over a larger area.

There have been very ‘brave’ proposals to harness charge separation in plasma directly, but this is in the same league of “tricky engineering”  as making contacts to trickle down the voltages that arise in the thunderstorm in an atomic bomb's  mushroom cloud, but all in a smaller space with higher windspeeds.

 Even with that assumed, the down conversion from milliamps of DC at hundreds of mega-volts to something more usable  when the voltage is varying wildly is not so easy. 

As far  as I know as a concept it has never left the drawing board. 

The reverse - stiumating fusion by electric fields is more or less successful on the bench top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Mike

Part of the problem is the temperature gradients are very great - there is nothing that can go anywhere near the plasma without being boiled in a blink. Easier to let the radiant heat spread out a bit and catch it over a larger area.

There have been very ‘brave’ proposals to harness charge separation in plasma directly, but this is in the same league of “tricky engineering”  as making contacts to trickle down the voltages that arise in the thunderstorm in an atomic bomb's  mushroom cloud, but all in a smaller space with higher windspeeds.

 Even with that assumed, the down conversion from milliamps of DC at hundreds of mega-volts to something more usable  when the voltage is varying wildly is not so easy. 

As far  as I know as a concept it has never left the drawing board. 

The reverse - stiumating fusion by electric fields is more or less successful on the bench top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Mike