Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Aeronaut]

Jimmy, if you’re thinking about Red Adair, he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew it out with a bunch of high explosives.

I went through Eric’s video again over the last 4 hours, then copied & pasted the entire energy harvesting system into Photoshop 6 and started taking “measurements” by the clues that Eric gave along with the assumption that the drawing was more about clarity than scale. So I pulled some numbers out of thin air:

X-ray collector diameter, ~3′ or more. (original “scaling” suggested 13′, which I consider unacceptable for an aerospace market.
Baseplate diameter (electrode mounting plate) ~9 inches;
Electrode lengths ~7″;
Electrode to drift tube ~7″;
Drift Tube/Solenoid, guess 4′ (May be twice as long as needed to reach 90% eff.)
Missing Gyrotron to couple particle beam to solenoid, ~2′ (resembles a length of wave guide)

Length overall, ~7 or 8 feet
Minimum diameter, ~1 foot, using hydrogenated plastic shielding (again, it’s a guess- figure 2 to 3 feet more realistic)
Min diameter to approach max theoretical efficiency, ~6 feet.
Shielded weight, (another guess), under 250 pounds, without capacitors.

This will fit easily in a high bypass turbofan powered airliner engine nacelle.

Biggest challenge, passing X-rays for recovery while blocking neutrons.