Reply To: EmDrive + Focus Fusion = Space Access for all?

[Henning]

I mean you would need something like rapid prototyping for the anode/cathode to include cooling structures. The electrodes would need an uniform material (beryllium, or boron, or…) with a low number of protons. Just because of the complex inner shape of the electrodes rapid prototyping is preferable.

Then on the other hand for the x-ray capturing, layers of different materials are needed. That’s what laminating provides well. And as Tulse writes, a box constructed out of flat panels would be fine, but it still needs cooling channels running through. We just call it the onion, because of its layers (okay maybe also the shape on Torulf’s pictures, but this seems secondary).

Aeronaut: If you mean chemical vapor deposition with CVD for building the x-ray capturing device this could also work. So laminating and CVD would be two solutions to the problem the x-ray converter poses. Maybe even combine these two steps, first do laminating for the outer layers, and then continue with CVD.

Did I sound like I was ruling out that possibility? Wasn’t my intent. Yes, you’re right, we also discussed x-ray capturing in that other thread. Maybe I’ve confused it with rapid prototyping for the onion in one go.