Reply To: Fusion Oil

[jamesr]

vansig wrote:
. o Oh! you mean flux as the peak intensity. that makes much more sense.

this really is new territory

Yep – I assumed although you get some soft xrays during the few microseconds of each pulse as the plasma heats up & filaments, the bulk will come out in a very short flash of ~50ns while the plasmoid it at the 50-500keV temperature.

The flux levels are not unheard of – it is just that getting the energy out as a usable current will not be trivial. I doubt early prototypes would get anything like the efficiency needed for a working power generator.

This is the kind of research which really could be done alongside the main focus fusion experimental program. There are plenty of x-ray sources around the world that could be used to test and play with different laminations of material.