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In article <1992Dec29.112835.62319@cc.usu.edu> system@cc.usu.edu writes:
> 1.4  Claims.  I claim the right to all thermonuclear fusion devices
> which employ charging a metal with deuterium and which apply an
> electrostatic charge (e.g. positive voltage) to the metal, and
> which use a pointed tip to focus the electrostatic fields. 

Sorry, but there appears to be prior publication. Dadaelus, in
his old column in "New Scientist", essentually invented this fusion
device about 10 years ago. Furthermore, he pointed out there is not
even any need for electrification---simply tap the big end of the 
cone with a hammer---the sound waves will travel through the cone, be
focused at the tip, and create sufficient energy density to fuse
the few D-T atoms at the tip. See the collected columns of Dadaelus,
which were published as a book several years ago, or look in old
issues of New Scientist (prior to 1987) for his columns.

Also, a physics professor here two years ago conceived of a metallic 
D-T "porcupine", which would do D-T fusions at the needle tips,
under the action of an applied voltage, so again your idea is not
so original. 


The real problem with such "tip-focused" fusion schemes is that the
fusioning region contain only a few atoms, and so cannot produce
much energy.
 
--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)