Future applications for muon catalysed fusion

Date- July 11 Source- www.starscientific.com.au/
'How Star Scientific's planned muon catalysed fusion system could replace the heat source of existing power stations in the future.'
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[@artofnick]

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[@TreyNitrotoluene]

I dont care abut the company but muon based fusion is being researched by multiple groups. Ignore the commercial and look into the science.

[@aluisious]

Aren't you also going to generate a lot of radioactive structural materials and biohazardous tritium?

[@trollking202]

So far the muon catalyzed fusion is negative energy due to the sticking problem of muons being absorbed into the all alpha particles or tritium. Also additional loss is manifested in the thermal conversion cycle by as much as 40%. The energy required to produce muons is approx 5 Mev, the energy produced by muons in the catalyst products is 2.7 Mev. Coupled with a downstream 40% loss this technology is not useful as an energy source. Unless it's on the moon where abundant background cosmic rays can interact with the liberal tritium in the moon regolith and high solar insolation. This may even be a surplus energy technology. But not very efficient.

[@Questionhex]

genuine curiosity, what if it is used in a hybrid system of some kind, initiating or helping a Tokamak/Iter to overcome their current heat plateau? or introducing additional conversions (alphavoltaics, betavoltaics, and thermionic for example.) to cut down the 40% downstream loss? I'm asking cause I can't find any indication of tests or research being conducted

[@anteconfig5391]

@Zen Matrix
Doesn't cosmic radiation passing through our atmosphere generate something like 10,000 muons per meter squared per second? Is that not enough?
Also muons are negatively charged so they can be magnetically redirected to pass through a smaller region. Would this not be enough still?

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[@danielroden9424]

dont forget that while relatively abundant extracting deuterium from sea water is very energy intensive.