asymmetric_implosion wrote: I have hope for the anode because you can use the physics of a highly directional beam to help you. The switches are the problem. I guess it is good for creating jobs and manufacturing to replace switches every few days if not every day. The switches are going to require a heavy investment to realize a 5 MW power plant operating at 200 Hz for more than a few days.

Can’t reliable switching (for greater than 2 months) be achieved by a greater number of capacitors and switch… at the sacrifice of the size of the whole system? Instead of 12, 48 capacitors for instance… or even 120, or 240 capacitors?