Re: Is Renzo Boscoli a genious, or a fraud

Unfortunately, the patent doesn't really say enough to tell me whether the claim of 19000 above unity is just "pie in the sky" talk.

The device that I see in the patent is not very dissimilar to devices in many laboratories around the world. (In fact the main body of it looks something similar to a cathode ray tube used in many television sets. In them, an electron beam is accelerated by electrodes towards the phosphorous covered TV screen.) Fusion reactions occur in accelerators every day, producing heavier unstable nuclei by colliding them at speed. However, this is the first in which I have seen it used for deuterium-deuterium collisions. That is not to say it hasn't been tried already.

I really don't see a point to the patent. But this may be that I am misunderstanding something. To me, it appears to be an experimental apparatus that tests the outcome of fusion, such that heat is produced, neutrons are emitted etc. If it were a process for creating nuclear fusion that was viable, I am failing to see several things. The main one being, how is the heat got from the target so that it can do something useful? I see no water pipes that would create steam with the heat that would drive a turbine, or anything of that ilk.

But as I said above, the patent doesn't supply enough information for me to back the 19000 claim. I am sceptical (but then again, what scientist isn't about everything.) It mentions nothing about the efficiency of the apparatus (ie, how many deuterons in the beam does it take to produce one fusion.) If the deuterons are being accelerated by a 3kV electrode, then they can have a maximum energy of 3keV (3,000 electron-Volts). If it takes a thousand accelerated deuterons to cause one fusion reaction event, then that is already 3MeV (3,000,000 electron-Volts) of energy needed (with the fusion reaction producing around 4MeV from what i see on the patent.) Then you have to count the numerous other energy loss factors involved. Without adequate numbers, it's impossible to guess whether it even reaches break- even point.

Anyway, as I said, I'm sceptical until I see more information. It's difficult to read the patent on a computer, so I could easily have missed something. If you find out any more information or want to discuss any points, please contact MadSci again and ask to have the question assigned to me.

(To understand more about the apparatus in the patent, look in any good nuclear, particle or accelerator physics book.)

Sorry I couldn't be more help.