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 D2Fusion CEO, Russ George, right, speaks with Remy C. at the Conference on Future Energy held in September in D.C. (photo by Sterling D. Allan) |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA -- At a time of deepening concern over fuel costs, energy
security, and CO2-driven global warming, Solar Energy Limited (OTCBB:SLRE) and D2Fusion,
Inc. announce major advances in the development of clean, solid-state fusion
heat sources.
D2Fusion is a subsidiary of the publicly traded company Solar Energy Limited.
Last week, D2Fusion's 2006 year-end scientific and engineering progress review
brought together its Silicon Valley and Los Alamos nuclear physics teams to
report on recent breakthroughs in the quantification of their solid state fusion
effects, synchronize experiment replication schedules, and coordinate
engineering plans for 2007.
During the last year, the company developed and installed in both its headquarters and Los Alamos facilities, innovative and highly sensitive mass spectrometer apparatuses, which are now in daily use allowing the observation and quantification of helium isotope production in near real time. These detection systems readily discriminate and quantify helium (4He) ranging from a few parts per billion to hundreds of parts per million accumulating in methodology trials lasting from weeks to months.
According to D2Fusion CEO Russ George, "Helium is the definitive 'nuclear ash' proving the occurrence of deuterium nuclei fusion in highly energetic reactions. While these are essentially the same nuclear reactions that power the sun and stars, our solid state form of fusion occurs at ordinary temperatures (0°-600° C) and, most importantly, without the emission of dangerous radiation. The fuel is heavy hydrogen or deuterium, and our recent work indicates obtainable energy densities ranging from a few tenths of a watt to a few tens of watts per cubic centimeter."
Former EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) nuclear power project manager and D2Fusion Chief Scientist, Dr. Tom Passell describes the firm's R&D approach.
"We believe in the virtues of intramural competition and cooperation at every level of this work. We even pit different fusion methodologies against each other in our labs and use the clues derived to accelerate each other's progress. In the end, this is a totally synergistic enterprise and no matter which technique proves market-ready first next year, it will be greeted as a historic victory for all."
Both facilities are now completing integration of their reaction,
measurement, and calibration systems to allow reciprocally coordinated
replication runs, and plan to install a third interoperable sister system in a
leading European science institute in the next several months. In 2007 all three
labs will focus on scaling up the reaction to commercially significant output
levels and developing heating module prototypes for domestic and industrial use.
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