Apologies for the long post, and all IMO...
As we all know, the genius behind our Coldry journey was the late David Wilson. According to ECT, In 2006, his long-time friend, colleague, chemical engineer and metallurgist
Keith Henley-Smith joined our team as Matmor Research Manager and continues to drive its R&D today.
Here is a letter written by KH-S to The Age newspaper in October 2005:
We are working with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) as part of their Fusion program in Culham Oxford.
I wrote in to The Age earlier this year when the previous articles on the nuclear fission debate was raging.
My letters were rejected as they were deemed to be advertising, so I submitted a brief summary of what atomic fusion was and how it was different to atomic Fission. Still no interest. Could it be that there is nothing more sensational than the topic of nuclear waste and the terrible incidents that have already taken place?
Atomic fusion is different because it does not use radioactive fuel and therefore does not produce radioactive waste. Atomic does not always mean radioactive.
Atomic fusion did not get a mention in the earlier article or in this article on global warming and alternative power sources. The French have recently announced they are to build a pilot fusion reactor with a price tag of ten billion dollars. This was big news in North America and Europe, but failed to get a mention in Australia.
In response to your question, "what are you doing,if anything, in response to climate change?" - well, we are doing something! (a)
What has this do with ESI? You ask. Well, KH-S's LinkedIn profile admits he was already a member of ECT when he wrote that letter. As seen below.
Environmental Clean Technologies Limited
July 2005 – Present (9 years 5 months)
Development of the Matmor metal producing system using Lignite and various metal bearing compounds (b)
So? WTF? Well, his profile also includes...
Director
Superstainless Pty. Ltd
April 1998 – Present (16 years 8 months)Melbourne, Australia
Development of the alloy PAK450 in Atomic Fusion research
Superstainless Pty was de-registered in October 2006, when KH-S was already in the ranks of ECT. So who owns the PAK450 patent and, more importantly, what is it?
Seeing the temperature of fusion: Australian companies ready to join the fusion revolution
The world's toughest stainless steel to help contain the Sun if Europe will let it.
Melbourne engineer, Keith Henley-Smith believes his stainless steel can help contain a fusion reaction - the energy of the Sun. The plasma of a fusion reaction is contained by a magnetic field created by powerful magnets. So the containment vessel needs to be non-magnetic. Usually that requires very expensive metals such as beryllium.
But Keith has a cheaper and stronger solution. He has created a form of stainless steel which is ten times stronger than regular steel and has no measurable magnetic field. It's very suitable for fusion and other high energy facilities. It is also a tenth the price of alternative metals. The stainless steel is currently used in mine hunting ships.
Despite the benefits, Keith has found Europeans organisations unwilling to use it, They're under a lot of pressure to buy European, he says. In one instance a research organisation spent ten times the money on a less satisfactory alternative. Keith is bypassing this obstacle by creating a UK subsidiary. Australian researchers and businesses have much to contribute to the development of fusion energy, Keith says. And our opportunities will be much greater if Australia is a partner in ITER, he says. (October 2006) (c)
Confused? So was I, until I looked at KH-S's Facebook page. He changed his profile picture in December last year to this...
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This is The Tokamak:
Super machine to offer unlimited energy
India In Global Team Developing Device To Generate Endless Supply Of Cheap,Clean Power
Kounteya Sinha | TNN
London: India is developing the heaviest and the largest parts of the Tokamak,the machine behind the biggest scientific collaboration on the planet,to produce unlimited supplies of cheap,clean,safe and commercial energy from atomic fusion.
The international nuclear fusion project known as ITER,meaning the way in Latin,is based on the tokamak concept of magnetic confinement,in which the plasma is contained in a vacuum vessel shaped like a doughnut.
The fuel a mixture of deuterium and tritium,two isotopes of hydrogen is heated to temperatures in excess of 150 million degrees Celsius forming a hot plasma.
The temperature within the gigantic machine will,therefore,reach 10 times the temperature at the core of the Sun.
Strong magnetic fields will be used to keep the plasma away from the walls.
India will be one of the significant creators of the Tokamak which will weigh 23,000 tonnes as heavy as three Eiffel Towers with a plasma volume of 840 cubic metres.
The main feature of the 180-hectare ITER site in Cadarache,southern France,is a man-made level 42-hectare platform that would be 1 km long and 400 metres wide,and compares in size to 60 soccer fields.
ITER project ranks as the most ambitious science endeavours of our time.Building began in 2010 in France where 34 nations are collaborating to realize the ITER projects First Plasma in November 2020. (d)
In conclusion, Matmor's Research Manager has purportedly developed the world's strongest, magnetically inert, form of stainless steel. 10 times stronger than normal steel and a tenth the price of alternative materials. This sounds like the material most suited to construct the cryostat housing for all future nuclear fusion generators.
Did we miss it? Yes, Coldry is great, and Matmor wouldn't exist without it. But step 3, in my opinion, could be 'The Beast'.
PAK 450 was developed
as the result of a request to produce an Austenitic cast Stainless Steel material with the same or similar corrosion and mechanical properties of wrought 316 types but, with a magnetic permeability values that were less than the standard for 300 series.
Usual values for these materials range from 1.02 to 1.08 and they are classed as 'nonmagnetic'.
The magnetic permeability of PAK 450 is 1.00, as tested on Dr. Fosters' Magnetic Permeameter, which shows the material to be magnetically inert.
Further test results at
http://www.grahamcampbell.com.au/MaterialsSS.html
(a)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/climate-change/2005/09/30/1127804649154.html
(b)
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/keith-henley-smith/34/5/170
(c)
http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/...0:39:35&firstName=Keith&lastName=Henley-Smith
(d)
http://mobiletoi.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=13§id=edid=&edlabel=TOICH&mydateHid=29-04-2013&pubname=Times of India - Chennai&edname=&articleid=Ar01300&publabel=TOI
Further reading.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/aug/23/fusion-power-is-it-getting-closer
http://www.iter.org/
https://www.euro-fusion.org/
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