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[Aeronaut]

Brian H wrote:

Since the DPF design process hinges on how much heat can be removed from how small of an anode radius/area, I decided to verify Eric’s number regarding heat removal ceilings. What I found was an off-the-shelf heat pipe which I think is titanium (melts at a little over 3,000 F) and uses Lithium as the working fluid.

I did a preliminary design drawing (http://energymadecleanly.com/anode.pdf) exploring using this part as well as asking about the preferred berylium/helium construction for FF generators. I just talked with a sales rep and expect some feedback from their engineers tomorrow around this time.

If this works, we’re free to run it at much higher temperatures, decrease anode radius, raise field strength, reduce rundown time, (more energy to the plasmoid), and hopefully slash X-ray production to below 25% of total charged particle output. The X-ray part is a wild hope, since Eric’s tables don’t show field strength affecting it very much.

What think?

Off-the-shelf is very good, of course!
What was the feedback?
And what’s this “LITIUM” stuff mentioned on the drawing? 😉

Sorry about the smelling. Should have been lithium, of course. Haven’t heard back from that division. I’ll call the main company Monday. Biggest question in my mind right now is if they make one that’s electrically insulating. Otherwise my heat exchanger has to use liquid silicone, like Eric recommends in the patent for cooling the onion.

How’re the Olympics going? Looks like you’ve got a ringside seat 🙂