‘TIME OF DESTRUCTION’ ENERGY SOURCES
Fusion Energy Using He3
In my interview on Radio 91.1 “The Boss,” I mistakenly said MP3 instead of He3 was an element used in a fusion reactor in my novel. Mp3, Of course is a “digital audio file,” not a “natural element.”
Helium-3 ( He-3 ) is a light, non-radioactive “isotope” of the element Helium, with two protons and one neutron.
- Most Helium molecules contain two (2) protons and two (2) neutrons.
- Deuterium: is a stable “isotope” of hydrogen with one neutron and one proton.
A brief, non-technical summary of how Helium-3 fusion can possibly be accomplished, is as follows:
The fusion-reaction will take place in a “Fusion Nuclear Reactor” called a “Tokamak,” which produces electric power by means of “heating” a “Plasma” consisting of Helium-3 and Deuterium to one-hundred-million degrees, while magnetically forcing them together, causing them to fuse and release energy.
The majority of the energy, it is believed, will be in the form of electrically charged particles, which, it is hypothesized, can easily be converted to electricity with seventy-five percent efficiency, and minimal radioactivity.
Most energy production methods average around forty percent efficiency, or less.
Interdimentional Energy:
This is a fictional energy source created for Time of Destruction, to allow the characters in the story to use it for a source of energy that allows them an unlimited amount of travel in time and space.
The Interdimension, which exists outside of our four-dimensional time and space, was discovered by Errick Frazier in 2050.
After years of experiments conducted by Errick Frazier, as is explained in the story, the interdimension can now be easily accessed through wormholes in the invisible, sub-atomic foam that surrounds us.
In Errick Frazier’s earlier experiments with the interdimension, a crystalline substance was obtained from the interdimension, and named “stardust.”
Stardust attracts energy from the interdimension, by opening up a wormhole into the interdimension to extract the interedimensional energy.
Building on the experimental research that Errick Frazier had gained over the years, he and his team were able to construct a device called an IPT, an interdimensional power transmitter, which uses “stardust” to extract energy from the enormously vast interdimension, resulting in a seemingly unlimited amount of energy.
Space Solar Power Satellites
Space solar power satellites are twenty-five feet wide by one-hundred-fifty feet long, and have tens of thousands of solar-electric cells mounted on their flat surface, which receive energy from the sun and convert that energy into electricity.
The power satellite is placed in geosynchronous orbit above a specific point on Earth, where a power receiving antenna has been built.
The electric power that is produced on the satellite is converted to microwaves, and transmitted to Earth via microwave broadcasting antennas on the satellite, that are aimed at the power-receiving antenna.
The receiver on the ground converts the microwaves back into electricity and sends the electricity out on the electric grid.
Orbiting Satellites using IPT’S
One of Hydroteck’s Solar Power Satellites has been stripped of its solar-electric cells and re-fitted with ten IPT’s.
The two gigawatts of power generated by the IPT’s on the satellite would be converted to microwaves, and transmitted to Earth via microwave broadcasting antennas on the satellite, that are aimed at the power-receiving antenna.
The receiver on the ground converts the microwaves back into electricity and sends the electricity out on the electric grid.
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