New ignition method and new patent application

In 1995, after a Dutch TV broadcast on Convectron activities, a spectator communicated his first-hand experience with high-voltage fireball generation occurring repeatedly in a 1960's laser test facility. This new ignition method will be a primary focus of the research and development activities ahead. It is also the basis for a new patent application, which is in preparation and will be submitted as soon as proceeds from the current issue permit.

Firmly grounded in established technologies

Together, these developments firmly ground the Convectron fusion reactor concept in established gas dynamic and microwave technologies, as well as in emerging technologies for the fields of left-handed materials (which have negative permittivity and permeability, and thereby a negative refractive index) and photonics (which combines different fields of science, including in particular optics, laser technology and electronics, for the generation, manipulation and use of light for a wide variety of applications; a well-know application is data transmission via light beams through optical fibres).