Reply To: Boron availability

[andrewmdodson]

My understanding is that the switch only has to close extremely rapidly… the capacitor bank discharges completely into the reactor, expending functionally all the current and then the system resets for the next pulse…

Why does there need to be reverse conducting? Are you using the same electrical pathway to recharge the cap bank?! I thought that no power had yet been extracted from the DPF?

I see what you mean about pulsed power technology not being far along enough… However, considering that SiC is giving rise times 2-3 orders of magnitude over Si, I think that you might actually be somewhat near your goal in about 5 years if you could apply that principle linearly to this pulse thyristor http://www.dynexsemi.com/assets/Pulsed_Power_Thyristors/Datasheets/DNX_PT85QWx45.pdf

But fusion will not wait for a bunch of slacker semiconductor physicists to catch up!! ONWARD!