1950: Energy from fusion is only 20 years away.

1970: Fusion technology is only 20 years away.

1990: Break-even fusion is only 20 years away.

2010: Fusion power is very close, only 20 years away.

2020: Fusion was optimized and break-even was achieved.

The time is now. For nearly three-quarters of a century nuclear fusion has been just outside of the grasp of humanity for use as a power source. Every day we walk outside and see our sun, bright and warm, but yet we have no viable method to replicate the process on Earth to produce energy.

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Unlike nuclear fission, nuclear fusion is the safe combination of atoms. It has the potential to produce energy without proliferation of weapons or fear of meltdown. Fusion might possibly be the ultimate safe and clean energy source.

Fusion itself is fairly easy, even young people at the high school level have built simple fusion reactors called fusors for science projects. Why then do we not have all our electricity produced from fusion? The problem is optimization. Although fusion is easy, it is not easy to get energy from it. In fact no one has ever come close to break-even, the point which you produce more energy than you use.

Fortunately, and unfortunately it has been easy to burn fossil fuels on Earth for energy, this is not feasible in space. Without such an abundant energy source, expanding into the solar system will be very difficult. The space race of the 1960s created many of the technologies we use every day. Using this same methodology offers a great path to fusion.

Nuclear Fusion for Green Energy Production on Earth and in Space
A hybrid approach and technology is being implemented to develop fusion technology for terrestrial and space energy applications. Fusion is the disruptive energy of the future.

Four core technologies are combined with state of the art high-temperature superconductors to improve the performance of the fusion device:

I) Inertial Electrostatic Heating (IEC)

II) Superconducting, Magnetically-Shielded Grid

III) High-Beta Capable Fusion Core

IV) Ion-ion and ion-neutral thermalization mitigation optimization

For 10 years Horne Technologies has been working on these fusion technologies to create optimized solutions for a viable fusion reactor for use in space and on Earth.



One of the only methods to utilize advanced fuels (such as aneutronic) in a fusion reactor is the method called inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC), a device which operates in a vacuum chamber. This is a very simple method of creating fusion, which was invented by the TV inventor Philo Farnsworth, to accelerate the fusion materials to the center by electrostatic attraction. If the materials you want to fuse are attracted to the center they accelerate to high energy and then collide in the center to produce fusion. This is the previously mentioned method that is simple enough for students to attempt for advanced science projects.


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IEC 1) A center grid is negatively charged

IEC 3) Fusion fuel is attracted to the grid

IEC 3) Fuel passes through the grid

IEC 4) Fuel collides in the center and fuses

Unfortunately, the IEC method requires a grid to attract the ions and much of the fuel runs into the grid it is therefore not efficient enough to produce power. This is where the second technology comes in.



By using superconducting magnets as the IEC grid, you reduce the collisions of the accelerated fuel into the grid. This is accomplished due to the fact that the very strong magnetic field causes the charged ion fuel to be diverted around it as it is being attracted to the grid.

Another issue with the IEC is that many of the fuel ions that are accelerated into the IEC center actually miss each other and do not collide to fuse. If they miss, they have to make the loop again for another try. If the super-hot, fast ions could be held in the same place for longer, they would have a higher chance of fusing. This is the third technology incorporated into the system.




An additional important advantage of the magnetically-shielded grid is it allows for a magnet configuration that is capable of a high-beta fusion core. This is a condition that occurs when you have strong magnetic field curvature where the plasma pushes back against the field. This causing a plugging effect to the leaks and creating an empty field region where the plasma is momentarily contained. This momentary containment increases the chance fusion will occur.

IV) Ion-ion and ion-neutral thermalization mitigation optimization