An invention [US Patent and Trademark Office App. Nos. 60/596567 (2005) and 60/766791 (2006)] combines centrifugal and dipole confinement, with recent oscillating plasma theory. The plasma undergoes compression/expansion (C/E), parallel to B by centrifugal force and perpendicular to B by B variation, providing a thermal cycle which recovers most (>95%) of heating as mechanical energy. This gives a “Q-amplifier” for beam-target systems. Centrifugally confined Boron plasma undergoes C/E by slow, cross-B interchange activity. Parallel and perpendicular C/E are matched by the rotation profile which arises naturally. Hot plasma is heated and cold plasma is cooled. Beam-target fusion reactions occur in the hot plasma region and expansion returns most of the heat energy as rotation energy. Rotation energy, in turn, produces waves which drive protons to an energy near the fusion peak cross section. A possible machine, including the arrangement of magnets and HV, is described.
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Barnes, D.C. Plasma Centrifuge Heat Engine – a Route to Non-thermal p- 11 B Fusion. J Fusion Energ 26, 21–23 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-006-9037-2
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