| Abstract: | “Genie”, a 40kHz sonofusion reactor consists of two opposing 40kHz piezos separated by 4 mm of D2O, with a centered Ti target foil, with one piezo transmitting, the other receiving and taking that signal, amplifying it, then feeding it back to the transmitter as the resonating frequency of the reactor. This process makes for efficient watt input, Qi, where 80% of these watts will be used as the acoustic input, Qa, to the “Genie” sonofusion reactor. In the reactor the transient cavitation bubbles, TCBs, produce billions of low-energy high-density jets per second that accelerate deuterons into foil targets producing excess heat, Qx. The Qx is determined by calorimetric measurements of experiments that use coolant water circulated to the surface of the well insulated reactor and data collected in the form of Tin and Tout at steady-state temperatures and coolant flow rate. The total watts out, Qo, minus Qa ideally should equal zero, and we know that this calorimetry method has several losses that are not measured. This makes the method very conservative when looking for Qx. The Qx must make up those heat losses before making its presence known. The result from experiments of system I using flow × DT × 4.184 for Qo − Qi = Qx shows that Qx values over unity are the norm. System II used a more realistic calculation for Qx, where flow × DT × 4.184 for Qo − Qa = Qx showed increased results. The calibration of the reactor with a Joule heater (JH) and the substitution of H2O for D2O produced measurements that showed the reactor calorimetry was close to zero Qx production as one would expect. These measurements showed that heat in = heat out, a good zero indicating no Qx, for the operation of the “Genie” sonofusion reactor. |
