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Plenty of legit projects are working on fusion reactors but that doesn't mean this patent isn't nonsense. Given the other patents filed by the same person, that

Plenty of legit projects are working on fusion reactors but that doesn't mean this patent isn't nonsense. Given the other patents filed by the same person, that seems likely. A comment from r/fusion: "I read through the patent application and it seems like total bullshit to me. It's filled with technobabble and unimportant details while explaining nothing about the proposed fields and ion motion." https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/dga6yc/the_navys_patent_for_a_compact_nuclear_fusion/f3am0aj/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/dga6yc/the_navys_pa...

colechristensen 7y ago
But who is that guy? He has his own fusion patent but no apparent credentials or employer to lend any weight to what he says. Id like to see something more than random internet people saying it looks like nonsense without much for selling why. Getting to the bottom of if this guy is really working on these things in the Navy for example
- DennisP 7y ago
  Sure, but looking at the patent itself, it seems true that it "explains nothing about the proposed fields and ion motion." https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en?inventor=Salvatore+Pais&oq=inventor:(Salvatore+Pais) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en?invento...
  - colechristensen 7y ago
    Well the patent office didn't see that to be a problem, and I'm no fusion expert so I can't say that that is a valid criticism. My point being that I haven't seen any criticism that seems credible or any at all outside people treating fusion like it's fairy technology or armchair physicists. The same could be said about praise, to be fair.
    - DennisP 7y ago
      The patent office has approved all sorts of weird patents including some that violate known physics, and some of those by this same author. I agree it'd be nice to see commentary from a non-anonymous fusion researcher. But it's possible to be skeptical of vague claims from people who've "invented" both working fusion and inertia manipulation, without thinking fusion is fairy technology. There are lots of fusion projects with real experiments and clear publicly-known details on their physical principles. Here are some: ITER (the big dog, a giant tokamak) Wendelstein 7-X (stellerator) Tokamak Energy (high field tokamak) Commonwealth (same, from MIT) First Light Fusion (inertial confinement with fast projectile) HB11 Energy (petawatt picosecond laser for boron fusion) TAE (formerly Tri Alpha, boron fusion with magnetic confinement) Helion (deuterium/he3 fusion, with funding from YCombinator) General Fusion (compression by acoustic shockwave from steam-driven pistons) LPP's focus fusion (uses a plasma configuration that collapses itself into high compression) Sandia's Z-pinch ZAP Energy (a private z-pinch effort)

colechristensen 7y ago

But who is that guy? He has his own fusion patent but no apparent credentials or employer to lend any weight to what he says. Id like to see something more than random internet people saying it looks like nonsense without much for selling why. Getting to the bottom of if this guy is really working on these things in the Navy for example

DennisP 7y ago
Sure, but looking at the patent itself, it seems true that it "explains nothing about the proposed fields and ion motion." https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en?inventor=Salvatore+Pais&oq=inventor:(Salvatore+Pais) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190295733A1/en?invento...
- colechristensen 7y ago
  Well the patent office didn't see that to be a problem, and I'm no fusion expert so I can't say that that is a valid criticism. My point being that I haven't seen any criticism that seems credible or any at all outside people treating fusion like it's fairy technology or armchair physicists. The same could be said about praise, to be fair.
  - DennisP 7y ago
    The patent office has approved all sorts of weird patents including some that violate known physics, and some of those by this same author. I agree it'd be nice to see commentary from a non-anonymous fusion researcher. But it's possible to be skeptical of vague claims from people who've "invented" both working fusion and inertia manipulation, without thinking fusion is fairy technology. There are lots of fusion projects with real experiments and clear publicly-known details on their physical principles. Here are some: ITER (the big dog, a giant tokamak) Wendelstein 7-X (stellerator) Tokamak Energy (high field tokamak) Commonwealth (same, from MIT) First Light Fusion (inertial confinement with fast projectile) HB11 Energy (petawatt picosecond laser for boron fusion) TAE (formerly Tri Alpha, boron fusion with magnetic confinement) Helion (deuterium/he3 fusion, with funding from YCombinator) General Fusion (compression by acoustic shockwave from steam-driven pistons) LPP's focus fusion (uses a plasma configuration that collapses itself into high compression) Sandia's Z-pinch ZAP Energy (a private z-pinch effort)