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Electron Power Systems, Inc. of Acton, MA claims to have developed a technology for maintaining small stable plasma toroids called electron spiral toroids (ESTs) which remain stable in Earth's atmosphere without the use of any special magnetic fields. They claim to have created these toroids in the laboratory, and to have developed a mathematical model for them that is similar to some explanations for ball lightning.
Because of EST's claimed lack of need for an external stabilizing magnetic field, EPS hope to be able to create small efficient fusion reactors by colliding magnetically-accelerated ESTs together at speeds high enough to induce ballistic nuclear fusion.
Their model for their reported toroidal phenomena was extensively criticised by a December 2000 technical report commissioned by NASA. As of 2004, EPS claim to have met the criticisms of the NASA report, and to have demonstrated that their model is mathematically sound, and state that they are ready to proceed with development of their technology.
References
Jean-Luc Cambier and David A. Micheletti. Theoretical Analysis of the Electron Spiral Toroid Concept (http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/2000/cr/NASA-2000-cr210654.pdf) NASA/CR-2000-210654
C. Chen, R. Pakter, and D. C. Seward. Equilibrium and stability properties of self-organized electron spiral toroids (http://www.psfc.mit.edu/library/01ja/01JA010/01JA010_abs.html). Physics of Plasmas Vol 8(10) pp. 4441-4449. October 2001
External links
Electron Power Systems (http://www.electronpowersystems.com/index.html): The official web site of Electron Power Systems.
Longer-term, the EST could be used as a charged particle trap that stores protons, ions and anti-matter in energy storage and power generation devices.
An important milestone in the development of EST technology was recently passed when Dr. Chiping Chen, a research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, published a paper that established a theoretical framework confirming the existence of a generic class of EST-like plasmas.
By directing a beam of EST's outward from an accelerator, instead of backward from a rocket, the EST could potentially be used to form a new kind of neutral particle beam.
Electron Power Systems, Inc. of Acton, MA claims to have developed a technology for maintaining small stable plasmatoroids called electronspiraltoroids (ESTs) which remain stable in Earth's atmosphere without the use of any special magnetic fields.
Because of EST's claimed lack of need for an external stabilizing magnetic field, EPS hope to be able to create small efficient fusion reactors by colliding magnetically-accelerated ESTs together at speeds high enough to induce ballistic nuclear fusion.
Equilibrium and stability properties of self-organized electronspiraltoroids.
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