Sunday 27 April 2014

Thursday 24 April 2014

What is the concept behind the Miniature ARC REACTOR built by TONY STARK ??

The Arc Reactor is most likely a Multi-Isotope Radio-Decay cell.
Here are some of the details of the arc reactor from the movie 1 and 2.

The arc reactor is equivalent to an ITER Fusion Reactor.

This type of fusion reactor exists today at research pilot scale. The reactor pictured, ITER, is under construction

and is planned to be the first fusion reactor large enough to produce a net gain of energy. Basically, it mashes two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, together at such high energies that they combine into one atom. When they fuse, the reaction produces helium and a free neutron. Critically, helium+neutron has less mass than deuterium+tritium, and the missing mass is converted to energy. That energy can be captured as heat to run a traditional steam-driven turbine (like any other power plant).

So what does the arc reactor's torus (donut) shape tell us? It means there are charged particles moving in a circle, contained by a magnetic field. High-energy particles usually have high energy because they're moving very fast, and magnetic fields can curve the motion of charged particles. Curving the particles' motion into a circle keeps them in one place long enough to get them to collide.

You may notice that current fusion reactor designs have a lot of magnet coils on the outside of the torus, whereas the Stark Industries arc reactor has a viewing window. Plasma containment is the single biggest challenge for hot fusion, but the arc reactor makes it look effortless. From this, we can conclude that a key technology in the full-scale arc reactor is a way to contain the reaction in a self-sustaining ring.

The following is a blueprint of the Arc Reactor shown in IRON MAN movie

The following are the details of the Arc Reactor inferred from the Iron man movie.

Contains a palladium core
The palladium is damaged by neutrons, so the specific isotope is important
Has electromagnetic coils in a torus
Emits blue-white light
Can be built in a cave with tools of moderate complexity
Requires no exotic materials outside what you could scavenge from dismantled conventional weapons systems
Runs low on power at inconvenient times, meaning it must have some sort of fuel or consumed charge.
To summarize : electrons project outward from the inner core, and gamma rays project inward from the outer ring. Because this electron/photon counterflow creates a deficit of electrons (relative to protons) in the core, a massive electrostatic potential is developed and the palladium core attracts lower-energy electrons from the suit's wiring. The ejection of electrons from the core towards the rim of the device produces an electrical cell capable of generating enormous voltage and current.