Reply To: Competition from the Thorium reactor

[Aeronaut]

I just looked up Gyrotron and Peniotron, the recommended “High Tech Transformer” /decelerator in the patent. I don’t understand how a peniotron can be useful. The power is much lower than a gyrotron and it requires high speed switching and sensing equipment that would add to the complexity and expense.

CPI’s gyrotron page, and Wiki’s maser pages, suggest that its uses are for plasma heating and particle acceleration. Huh? At least I have some phone numbers. Apparently anybody who would be looking for this type of part already understands it is how the wiki and sales pages approach the reader.

If I understand it correctly, our brief pulses of “electricity” (no circuit return path) needs to be terminated and converted into several mm wavelength pulses of (hopefully) 5 MW total power. Then something like a pad transformer steps it down to useful levels and number of phases. Is this correct? Thanx.