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Education Project

We’ve got an education project in the works to design (and test) a curriculum that will take the average 5th grader from start to finish, featuring everything you need to know about the LPPX. It'll be interactive!

It turns out you have to explain quite a bit for most people to fully comprehend. It’s a dense (heh!) topic. All we need is the funding: Donate now!

DPF Animation

Posted by Rezwan on Nov 13, 2009 at 02:23 AM
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Focus Fusion Films presents “dense plasma focus”, incorporating animation by Torulf Greek. Edited with Sony Moviemaker. More films to follow. Your contribution is essential to this process.

Notes

Two nested electrodes

The video refers to “two electrodes” yet the images show lots of rods. What’s going on? The inner electrode is the hollow cylinder in the center. The outer electrode is comprised of all of the rods on the outside. Collectively, all these rods are considered the one outer electrode. For comparison, some Dense Plasma Focus machines have a solid cylinder as the outer electrode. More about electrode design.

Vacuum chamber

The vacuum chamber is shown open - i.e., in the photo, the base is not attached so that you can see the electrodes. Of course, it won’t be able to hold a vacuum without the base attached. Visit this page for more insight into the core electrodes.

The switches also have electrodes

Note that in addition to the core electrodes, each of the switches on the capacitor bank has electrodes. We call them “switch electrodes” to distinguish them from the “core electrodes” above. The switch problem that you read about elsewhere on the site is part of the driver system that is designed to deliver the charge to the core electrodes.

“Time lapse”

Check out this visual overview of FoFu-1’s driver system, taken over the course of its construction. You can watch it being built!

As to the animation above, note also the red and blue beams representing positive and negative ions have been marked the opposite of convention.

Another animation of the DPF

The relationship of FFS and LPP

Energy Secretary Steve Chu and Focus Fusion

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Breakable, all the rods in the outer ring constitute the outer electrode. The cylinder in the middle is the inner electrode.

Please feel free (and this goes for anyone checking out this site) to make additional films to illustrate the concepts here. Source materials (images, animations) are available on our flickr page via creative commons attribution share-alike copyright. You could set it up as a slide show or flash document so a person can take their time, read something, and then click for the next step.

FYI, We’ve got an “education project” in the works, and are trying to get funding for it, to design (and test) a curriculum that will take the average 5th grader from start to finish in understanding everything you need to know about the experiment to test pB11 and the DPF for net energy. It turns out you have to explain quite a bit for most people to fully comprehend. It’s a dense topic.

Posted by Rezwan on 04/15 at 09:53 AM

Yes I understand the FF concept pretty well myself and was able to explain it to my friend with pausing, just wanted to point out the “bugs” I encountered in the “Pitch” movie.
I believe myself in WIKI and Open-Source, that means any material needs to keep evolving to become available to wider audiences. I will try to participate in material development in the future, for now I am just trying to produce constructive (I hope) criticism.

Posted by Breakable on 04/15 at 10:30 AM

That’s a really good point. We’ve got to set up the site to enable open source editing and constant improvement of materials.

And also - explaining things to your friends, live, is a big (and unavoidable) part of the process.

Posted by Rezwan on 04/15 at 10:57 AM

Crow-sourcing could be enabled by setting up a wiki engine for this site. There we could develop explanations for fusion, DPF processes, track existing projects as well as store the authoring materials.
Unfortunately I don’t currently have any experience setting or maintaining a wiki myself, or much time to dedicate ATM, maybe we can arrange something during the meeting?

Posted by Breakable on 04/15 at 12:41 PM

Also as the commercial industry can prove explanations can be avoided during the pitching phase

Posted by Breakable on 04/15 at 12:41 PM

Yes, one for the meeting.

FYI, we have a wiki set up - http://focusfusion.org/index.php/wiki - but I don’t find it as flexible or full featured as, say wikipedia’s. Hence I haven’t been promoting it.

I think the most important step is choosing the wiki engine (?) and then letting it loose.

Posted by Rezwan on 04/15 at 12:51 PM

Yes, probably a better engine can be found.
Still nice to know there is something available,
maybe its not too feature complete, but I think simplicity can be an advantage as well.
And of course there is always extra effort in maintaining something even if its wiki based.

Posted by Breakable on 04/15 at 12:59 PM