In the article on Faraday’s “paradox” it was suggested that a spinning, disk-shaped, non-conducting magnet induces a radial electric field within itself and above and below the magnet. Fig. 1 depicts two such magnets with a glass, cylindrical container of deuterium ions sandwiched between them. Each disk is mounted on an axle coincident with the z-axis. The top and bottom magnets’ spin vector points in the -z direction. Thus the spin-induced E field within, above, and below each magnet, points in the radially outward direction. Each deuterium ion in the gas experiences a radial, outward-pointing electric force toward the gas container’s rim.
The B field between the magnets points in the +z direction. If the gas container’s spin vector points in the +z direction, then each ion also experiences a magnetic force toward the gas container’s rim.
The net force on each ion, coupled with a centrifugal force, tends to compress the ions more densely around the container’s rim, where spontaneous fusion events should occur more frequently. The rate of such events could ostensibly be increased by heating the gas of ionized deuterium atoms. The forces are all increased in magnitude by increasing the rates of spin. There is of course a maximum for this spin rate beyond which centrifugal forces would tear the components apart.
Figure 1
Fusion Apparatus
Now there is no problem constructing a gas container with a radius of several meters. However, it is difficult if not impossible to fabricate homopolar disk-shaped magnets more than a few cm wide. A suggested method for constructing such a magnet several meters wide is to strap a large number of rectangular ceramic magnets together in a circle of the desired radius.
In general, for a given spin rate the larger diameter magnets and gas container one uses, the larger the number of fusion events that should occur in a given revolution. Each fusion would produce a helium ion. Periodically, the byproduct helium ions would have to be flushed from the container, and a fresh batch of deuterium ions would have to be added.