Made out of electrons?
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It's not exactly made of electrons, that is if I am reading it right. It traps electons between two sheets of tungsten-based compound.
Even so, it should have a negative electrical charge. That should be the case, and if it is, it might be useful for something.
In the Polywell Fusion experiment, the idea was to create a "well" of electrons. The problem with the device is that the electrons had a nasty habit of escaping. The "well" is the effect that a large number of electrons confined to one space will create a very strong attractive force for a proton, or two protons. The idea was to get them to collide and produce a fusion reaction. If you can produce the same effect with these materials, could it produce fusion?
The advantage of the Polywell is that it isn't designed to heat up. It can be relatively small.
Another thought: you can speed up protons in an accelerator and then smash them together thereby hoping for a fusion reaction which would be significant enough to produce net power. Or would an acceleration be necessary if the thing already has a very deep well? You need to overcome the coulomb barrier, which is what prevent the fusion from taking place. Anyways, it is something I was thinking about when I came across this news item.
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