Designs of fusion reactors like the Tokamak hope to use a magnetic field to enclose high energy electrons and protons, others try to use the inertia of the fuel to stabilize the implosion of lasers like the inertia in fusion implosion so much the protons have no where to go and implode. The problem is these reactors have instability of the surrounding field, so the magnetic bottles they have are more like a leaky gas bag. The nearest the best magnetic bottle has gotten to fusion needs about 25 times more pressure than they have. This is with high temperatures of the fuel assumed to be necessary to generate the reaction. Trying to confine a ball of hot gas with another gas seems to be improbable, air is an air leak no doubt. Another possibility than air for air has been devised that may be more viable may be by mechanical compression of the gas, by way of counterbalancing cylinders. Each set of cylinders and cylinder blocks would have the shape of a cylinder and half sphere on the ends that mesh tightly so first the fuel would be in a more oval shaped room with rounded ends, on compression the cylinders at the maximum compression would be with the plasma shaped like a sphere, so more stable by the physics. The inner walls would be with many positive charges of atoms imbedded in the cylinder face at regular intervals so the positive field of the cylinder walls would also be more leveled all the way around to compress the fuel of protons. To reduce instability more, lower temperatures would be used, this would be like a diesel engine compared to gasoline powered; the fuel may ignite more by internal pressure and heat so it would be more stable while with lower temperature up to the ignition point. The discoverer of dry ice, Bridgeman, found that water remains frozen even at high temperature if the pressure is also raised. Another way to reduce instability is by focusing of the fields of the magnetic fields of the cylinder walls so they would extend just a short distance this would reduce the instability the longer distance fields of the magnetic bubbles would have. If the fuel is too hot a surrounding area of field might be used; to boost the stability to add more force the solid outer shell to power the reaction would be of worth to increase the probability of fusion and inside this a minimal but strong layer of field would move the force from the cylinder to the compression of the fuel more reliably. Coolant like electric cooling might be also used to cool the cylinder after each power cycle using some of the power of the fusion to power the cooling. To actuate the buffer field high speed sensors and actuators would be used to actively stabilize the field. This may be especially of worth with the use of smaller cylinders and fields since with reduced field to control it's more reliable.
The two cylinders on each side of the pairs of counteracting machines would be sealed by a sort of magnetic flange of many rings of the width of the cylinder of the two pistons so none of the fuel could leak out. With no leaks and more balanced pressure instability would also be minimized.
There are the two sets of cylinders in this lottery machine of the star in a jar so that when one compresses and has fusion it expands and then this expansion on one side of the machine is transferred to power by a strong beam perhaps of large size and a strong lever arm to cause the compression of the other piston in its pressure phase. This way part of the pressure cycle is used to power the next boost.
Like an engine of a road machine if more pressure is needed to make the reaction go a spark might be used for extra atomic power, this would be used in more optimal ratio or just to add more pressure and not so much heat up to the point when the maximum pressure was achieved. The spark would be a sort of atomic spark plug that would be perhaps a bit of Uranium that would be hit by a laser on one side of the cylinder.
25 times the pressure is not that much by these methods to achieve because you can exert much more pressure with a solid than just with air and much of the problem of the bubbles is about instability, not pressure. If the instability and the pressure are both overpowered by these methods, this will make fusion more like fusion was always imagined to be in the old movies about science and life of the year 2000, all the reruns have 0-0-0 at Christma like St. Clause in B.C!
To improve pressure without so much heat is by use of physics of the mighty ant about strength of materials. The ant can lift a huge amount of mass and throw it far; if humans could do this it would be like throwing the mass 20 miles as they say in Amazing Sci Amer. So too a gyroscope generates the most force at smaller distances because the strength of the machine is most at closer distances where much higher rpms are reached. While temperature is heat per unit of mass, heat is not the same. So if you felt the heat mass has around the outside of Jupiter it wouldn't feel hot even though it has higher heat than the solar power of the sun. Each molecule moves fast in the mostly empty space but there are not many of them. And the space shuttle tiles are so radiant they can be real hot and not burn your hand. Pressure can be much larger if the surface area is decreased without melting the machine. Thus a smaller piston of the fusion machine may be both of more worth because of it's ability to exert more than the 25 times the pressure, and because of it's reduced heat which won't multiply up each surrounding atom's heat or instability without so many atoms. The uses of magnetic fields to hold the fuel was originally thought to be of worth because the high heat of the fusion would seem to melt any metal walls. The metal walls are still there in the Tokamak but they are removed away and the confining magnetic bubble is between the walls and the fuel. The use of more powerful, but nearer and more stable and actuated fields may help.
The problem of the smaller heat output of a smaller piston would be solved just by using more pistons on each side in even numbered sets. Smaller cylinders also would reduce leaks by use of the smaller magnetic field in R&D, it would be easier in simulations and use to find where leaks would develop and control them more reliably.
All this will help increase our bet of this vast source of safe power on a large scale. Typically heavier atomic nucleii would be used of positive and negative valence that would align by the strong electric field of the pistons so it would be more probable the poles of the protons would implode to the poles of the neutrons, fusing both by pressure and the strong force without having to overpower the centrifugal force of each random alignment of the non polarized field of the Tokamak. Another way to safe atomic power may be lining up protons in the N S, N S poles in a wire and draining off the spin by a beam on the side of the limb of the wire thus formed with a complete loop of electric field all the way around to collect the atomic power converted to electric. This I name the Atomic Motor. It would take nano engineering we don't have yet and may not be as efficient, so compression of the fuel may be more of worth in the near physics. More mass would be converted to energy with compresssion.
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