#11490
willit
Participant

yes i understand that the images were from multiple shots. I guess the crux of my thoughts was that the shift seemed to move away from the anode and I was interested to know if during the travel it was heating new gas as it went or if it was movement of the gas that was already in a plasma state. if the plasmoid was stationary in free space would yield be higher? if the fusion reactions happen sooner than it appears to shift would more reactions take place if it didn’t shift. of course i know that magnetic interactions occur and force things in different directions but it occurred to me that if the anode were another set of rods that had less magnetic interaction results could be different.

remember that the internal combustion engine was refined from steam engine theory and that it came before turbine engines. it seems logical that an intermittent pulse power system would come before a continually powered system. focus fusion vs tokomak.