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Milemaster wrote: Henning:

Here are some references on two methods regarding how to generate a hollow laser beam that filled with plasma can be used as an electrode.

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Are you intending to have these “cylinders” of fuel plasma conduct the power to drive the formation of the sheath?

Then the fuel for the pinch would be in addition to the “electrodes”?

Then are you just shiftingg the erosion to the physical electrodes supplying the current to the plasma within the beams?

And what will that pB plasma external to the confinement beams do to them?

Doesn’t seem to add up, so what am I missing?

Another issue would seem to be that, unfortunately, none of the techniques you mention are scaled to the magnitude of current, pressure and temperature required for pre-pinch plasma.

Milemaster wrote: Finally I do not see any use of beryllium coating cooper electrodes. The x rays would pass trough the beryllium to finally be absorbed inside the cooper core as I understand.

Er… no one mentioned beryllium plating. The electrodes, which are not very large, are to be made of beryllium.

A few threads discussing the resources needed for production of practical FF power units have indicated that the Be needs of an FF economy falls within current Be production capacity.